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		<title>Sammons Pressures State GOP to Ban McCarthy, Bowlsbey, Coutz on Local Party Panel; Questions on Role of Haire, State Chair and Hornberger Ally</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2022/11/sammons-pressures-state-gop-to-throw-mccarthy-bowlsbey-coutz-off-county-party-committee-despite-winning-seats-in-primary-questions-on-role-of-haire-state-chair-and-hornberger-ally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS It’s a good thing that Ronald Reagan, the late President and conservative Republican hero, never sought a seat on the Cecil County Republican Central Committee. If he had lived here, he wouldn’t qualify under retroactive sanctions now being proposed to ban anyone who ever donated to a Democrat or challenged a GOP nominee, before they were even sworn in to the local committee. (Reagan was a Democratic Party activist and donor before switching to the Republican side.) The campaign to nullify the decisions of county Republican voters—who elected Alan McCarthy, Joyce Bowlsbey and William Coutz to seats on the GOP Central Committee in the July primary but who have not yet been sworn into office—is being led by Vincent Sammons, the multiple online personality and political gadfly. (Sammons, an on again, off again chairman of the local panel got himself installed as chairman again at a secret meeting in August, filing documents with the state Board of Elections (BOE) proclaiming his chairman title effective 8/6/2022. ) Sammons declared in a statement posted on the committee’s Facebook page that the three seats had been declared vacant by the state party and invited local Republicans to apply for the seats. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil Co Charter Changes on Ballot Aim to Fix County Exec Issues; State Question Would Close Kevin Hornberger Residency Loophole</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS As in-person early voting in the General Election began on Thursday (10/27/2022), Cecil County voters will decide five local Charter amendments, including changes in selection of Ethics Commission members and requiring greater “transparency” on spending and real estate deals by the County Executive. The proposals are designed to address problems that emerged in the first two years of Danielle Hornberger’s administration. In addition, a proposed amendment to the State Constitution (Question 2) would require a state Delegate or Senator to “maintain” residency withing the boundaries of the district from which he/she was elected. Delegate Kevin Hornberger, Danielle’s husband, lived outside the boundaries of his former District 35-A, according to state land records, financial disclosure statements and sworn mortgage refinancing documents. He got away with using his parents’ address for years because no one challenged his residency within the limited less than two-week window for challenges to the State Board of Elections after a candidate files for office. Currently, the state Constitution only specifies a requirement for district residency at the time of filing but is silent on maintaining residency after an election and for the duration of the four-year Delegate term. A ‘yes’ vote on this state question [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Miller Apparent Win on Cecil Council;  Kevin Hornberger Squeaks By in Crowded Delegate Race with 61% of Voters Against Him; McCarthy Tops Sammons on GOP Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS With all but a small handful of overseas and absentee votes left to count, Cecil County voters apparently returned County Councilor Al Miller (R-3) to a second term, with 51.3 percent of the vote, and rejected a vicious, negative attack campaign financed by Del. Kevin Hornberger (R-35B)—who narrowly won retention of his own seat in a three-way GOP primary race, despite over 61 percent of voters opposing Hornberger. And in one of the more ironic political outcomes, former County Executive Alan McCarthy (R)&#8211; who lost his re-election bid two years ago to Danielle Hornberger, Kevin’s wife&#8211; won a seat on the county’s Republican Central Committee. McCarthy won 2,878votes, or 34 more votes than Vincent Sammons, a Hornberger ally, political trickster and agitator known for multiple online personalities. Sammons did get a seat on the nine-member panel, as the bottom vote-getter. But two Hornberger-backed candidates for County Council won seats that will give Danielle Hornberger and her chief ally, Council vice president Jackie Gregory (R-5), effective control of the five-member Council as of December. The Cecil County Board of Elections (BOE) conducted its third vote count on Wednesday (7/27/2022) for “provisional” ballots, after earlier tallies of election day and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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