Michael Smigiel

A majority of the Queen Anne’s County Republican Central Committee voted Tuesday night to endorse Del. Michael Smigiel for the vacant Dist. 36 state Senate seat, creating a tie between Smigiel and Del. Steve Hershey among the four counties in the district. Hershey has won the endorsements of the Kent and Caroline counties’ local...
Read more »

A Cecil Times Special Report While a political bloodbath has been unfolding in the four counties of the state legislative 36th District recently, the man who caused it has been serenely contemplating, on social media, Texas sports teams and Lone Star state oversized hamburgers. But E.J. Pipkin’s abandonment of his Maryland Senate seat, for...
Read more »

The Caroline County Republican Central Committee has voted to endorse Del. Steve Hershey, of Queen Anne’s County, to fill the vacant Dist. 36 state Senate seat—with the likely result that he will prevail over remaining rival Del. Michael Smigiel, of Cecil County. In a whirlwind of events in the past day, the Caroline County...
Read more »

Former state Republican Party chair Audrey Scott withdrew Friday night from the hotly contested race for appointment to the state Senate seat recently vacated by E.J. Pipkin, leaving a potential head-to-head fight between two current state Delegates for the post. Since Pipkin was a Republican, his successor to fill out the remaining year and...
Read more »

The process to fill the state Senate seat vacated recently by E.J. Pipkin has turned into an increasingly bitter brawl, with pressure on local Republican Central Committees in the four-county District to unify behind one candidate to prevent Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley from making the final selection from a splintered GOP list. Former state...
Read more »