Paige Cognetti Refuses Corporate PAC Money. But Some Is Arriving Indirectly.

Rob Bresnahan this November, has repeatedly pledged not to take money from corporate political action committees as a candidate or lawmaker. “No Corporate PAC Money. Cognetti’s pledge to reject corporate PAC money has become a key feature of her campaign, and is cited in endorsements from advocacy groups such as End Citizens United and lawmakers including Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona). Cognetti has repeatedly hit Bresnahan, who accepts direct corporate PAC money, for his once-prolific stock trading — the multimillionaire with his own helicopter made more than 650 individual stock trades during 2025, according to federal records. Democrat Abigail Spanberger, now the governor of Virginia, campaigned on rejecting corporate PAC money while running for Congress in 2022 — and was slammed at the time for taking money from leadership PACs.