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		<title>Slates, Slams and $: Gregory Promotes Pals for Cecil County Council; “Slate” Flyers Push Lies, Paid for by Developers, Hornberger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Jackie Gregory (R-5), the vice president of the Cecil County Council, must have an acute case of insomnia, posting social media attacks on some of her fellow councilors and perceived political foes at all hours of the night. And when the sun comes up, she stars in glossy promotional mailers declaring she has a “need” for her preferred “slate” of candidates to sit with her on the Council. What she isn’t saying is that the “Cecil Conservative Slate” of political newcomer candidates she is promoting is largely financed by out-of-county developers and financial transfers from Del. Kevin Hornberger (R-35B), a large donor to her own campaigns and the spouse of county executive Danielle Hornberger (R), a close ally of Gregory. And she isn’t saying why her “slate” is particularly focused on attacking Councilor Al Miller (R-3), who is up for re-election this year, with flyers attacking him personally with false claims. One flyer shows pictures of her three preferred candidates but inexplicably declares that Miller is “our opponent.” The official Republican primary election ballot lists only one candidate running against Miller: Bob Gatchel, an actor who appeared in drag wearing female clothing and a bouffant red wig in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Finance Chief Rakes in Annapolis Political Consulting $ as Taxpayers Pay Six-Figure Salary; Council Pleads for Budget Numbers, Gets Limited Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT James Appel, the Cecil County Director of Finance who is paid more than $124,000 a year by local taxpayers, is also operating an Annapolis political campaign finances consulting business, earning at least $42,000 in 2021. At the same time, he has been working in Elkton just four days a week even as County Council members pleaded for many months for information on county expenditures and uses of millions in state and federal aid for COVID and economic relief. Council concerns and questions about fiscal transparency have grown especially since the resignation of Rebecca Anderson, the longtime deputy finance director and budget manager, about two months ago. She took a fiscal position with the County’s public schools, which operate independently from the county executive’s administration. Anderson was much admired by Council members for her diligence and straight-forward responses to Councilors’ questions. Appel, a longtime state Republican political operative in Annapolis where he continues to live, was hired by County Executive Danielle Hornberger (R), along with another Annapolis political operative, Lawrence Scott, who was hired as County Attorney despite the fact that he had never appeared in any state court or even entered a written “appearance” on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Avoids Political Dodgeball: Picks Culberson for Vacant Seat, Commends Panel That Rejected Mischief Maps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Faced with limited options, the Cecil County Council took a path of subtle resistance this week when it picked the least politically challenging candidate to fill a vacant Council seat that will be on the ballot in next year’s elections. The Council also welcomed a redistricting commission report that rejected some highly partisan maps that could have pitted incumbent councilors against each other in districts that looked like a plate of spaghetti. The Council voted 3-0 to install Donna Culberson, of Conowingo, in the District 4 seat previously held by George Patchell, who was mid-way in his second term on the Council but recently resigned to take the job of Perryville town administrator. Absent from both the afternoon worksession and evening legislative meeting of the Council on Tuesday (11/16/2021) was Jackie Gregory (R-5), the chief Council cheerleader for County Executive Danielle Hornberger. In picking Culberson, the Council was drawing from a list of three candidates submitted by the county’s Republican Central Committee, which under the county Charter had the authority to select the nominees because Patchell was a Republican. If the council had rejected or deadlocked on the candidates, then the County Executive would have had the power [&#8230;]]]></description>
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