State Threatens Criminal Case against PAC that Paid for other PAC’s Anti-Baynes Flyer Even more than a year after the last election, one of the deepest secrets of the local campaign season—who really paid for a vicious attack flyer against Cecil County Judge Keith Baynes—is still a secret. But the State Board of Elections...
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Tags: "Mike Smigiel", andy harris, Board of Elections, campaign finance, cecil county, Derrick Lowe, election, Ellis Rollins, financial disclosure, fine, GOP, Joyce Bowlsbey, lawsuit, Lisa Conley, Lyn Price Nickle, Michael Smigiel, PAC, Political Action Committee, Politics, Republican, Republican Central Committee, Robert Gorman, Tari Moore
Posted in andy harris, campaign finance, Cecil Chatter, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, E.J. Pipkin, Elections, Elkton, Ellis Rollins III, governor, Michael Smigiel, politics, Republicans, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized, women | 22 Comments »
A Circuit Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit by Del. Michael Smigiel challenging the appointment of Joyce Bowlsbey to the Cecil County Council, ruling there was “no support whatsoever” in the law for Smigiel’s claims and noting that the delegate hadn’t even bothered to respond to county legal arguments in the case although...
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The Cecil County Council, which has spent much of its ten months of existence arguing over how members should behave, dissolved into yet another verbal slugfest Tuesday over how to enforce standards of “decorum”—and an unusual split among the current panel majority over a plan by Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) to help local...
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Cecil County Councilor Joyce Bowlsbey, who was appointed earlier this year by County Executive Moore to fill the balance of Moore’s term in District 2, announced Thursday night that she will be a candidate for election to the seat in the 2014 election. “I’ve decided that I owe it to this county to continue...
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The Cecil County Council had some good news from the county library, no news from the county’s finance director and some Bad News Bears– growling about how to deal with misbehaving councilors– at a Tuesday worksession in Elkton. First the good news: the Cecil County public library has produced a video highlighting the “beauty”...
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