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Joyce Bowlsbey, a longtime community volunteer who chaired the citizens’ panel that drafted the Cecil County Charter approved by voters in 2010, was appointed to the vacant District 2 County Council seat Tuesday by County Executive Tari Moore. But Del. Michael Smigiel, whose political allies lost majority control of the Council in the aftermath...
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Posted in Business, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, E.J. Pipkin, Elections, Elkton, Michael Smigiel, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized, campaign finance, cecil county, cecil county government, county commissioner, politics, real estate, women | 12 Comments »
Analysis Democrat Peter Franchot will not seek his party’s nomination for governor in 2014 and instead will seek re-election to his current post as Maryland Comptroller—a move that could limit potential political options for state Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36) of Elkton. In an email to supporters Tuesday, Franchot said, “It is no secret that...
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Two candidates for a vacant Cecil County Council seat, seeking endorsement from the Smipkin-controlled Republican Central Committee, are linked to Political Action Committee (PAC) financing of a smear campaign against fellow Republican Judge Keith Baynes, who resoundingly defeated Del. Michael Smigiel in the April primary for a court seat. But one of their PAC’s...
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Posted in Cecil Times, E.J. Pipkin, Elections, Elkton, Michael Smigiel, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized, campaign finance, cecil county, cecil county government, county commissioner, politics, real estate, women | 18 Comments »
In a bold move to launch her administration as County Executive without the partisan warfare that has stymied Cecil County government for the past two years, Tari Moore changed her political party affiliation on Thursday from Republican to Unaffiliated—a move that will block the Smipkin political faction from controlling who will fill her soon...
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Posted in Business, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, Elections, Elkton, Michael Smigiel, Rebecca Demmler, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized, campaign finance, cecil county, cecil county government, county commissioner, politics, women | 69 Comments »
Analysis/Commentary It was a bipartisan or multi-partisan vote that made Tari Moore Cecil County’s first-ever County Executive in the November election. But the choice of her replacement on the new County Council is now primarily in the hands of a highly partisan group—the local Republican Central Committee controlled by the Smipkin political organization that...
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Posted in Cecil Government, Cecil Times, Democrats, Elections, Elkton, Michael Smigiel, Rebecca Demmler, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized, cecil county, cecil county government, county commissioner, politics | 6 Comments »
