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		<title>Hornberger Sent ‘Replacement’ Disclosure Form After Cecil County Exec GOP Primary; Had “Ballot Harvesting” Plan, Documents Show</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2020/08/hornberger-sent-replacement-financial-disclosure-form-after-cecil-county-exec-gop-primary-campaign-had-ballot-harvesting-plan-for-mail-ballots-collection-document/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report—Part 1 Danielle Hornberger, apparent winner of the Republican primary election for Cecil County Executive, sent a “replacement” financial disclosure statement to the county Board of Elections in early July, more than a month after the election and seven months after the statement should have been filed under election laws, according to documents newly obtained by Cecil Times. The document was produced after multiple emails and conversations with local election officials and back-dated forms were inserted belatedly into county and state files, documents show. The documents tend to confirm, at least in part, most of the allegations contained in a Circuit Court lawsuit filed by current Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy, who lost overwhelmingly to Hornberger in the June 2 GOP primary election. McCarthy is seeking to invalidate the results of the primary, saying that Hornberger failed to qualify for the ballot and that some documents were falsified and backdated to cover up a “conspiracy” to violate the law. He is also seeking a temporary restraining order and an injunction to keep Hornberger’s name off the November general election ballot. McCarthy and his lawyers are seeking an expedited Circuit Court hearing in the case and are [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mesneak, Hornberger Backer and Fired County Employee, Belatedly Agrees to Recuse Himself from Board of Elections Decisions on County Exec Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 16:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faced with a vote to force his recusal from any Cecil County Board of Elections decisions on the County Executive race, Scott Mesneak&#8211; a county employee fired by County Executive Alan McCarthy and a highly visible backer of his challenger Danielle Hornberger in the Republican primary election&#8211; belatedly agreed Tuesday (5/26/2020) to step aside, after initially refusing to recuse himself from Board decisions in the contest. The in-person meeting of the county Board of Elections (BOE), which was also live streamed on the county website, took up Mesneak’s status as a special new agenda item on “conflict of interest,” following his appointment on 5/13/2020 to fill a GOP vacancy on the five-member bipartisan Board, which has a 3-2 Republican majority. Questions of an appearance of a conflict of interest emerged because of Mesneak’s dismissal by McCarthy from a top county job as the IT director, after many complaints from County Council members, and Mesneak’s highly visible recent activities supporting Hornberger&#8211; including photos on her campaign social media pages posing with her while putting up signs for her campaign. Mesneak was recently picked for the Board of Elections post unilaterally by Vincent Sammons, the chairman of the county’s Republican Central Committee, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Voting Surges Statewide; Colvin Fires Up TV Ads, Harris Hangs on Hogan Coattails in 1st Dist. Congress Race</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2018/10/early-voting-surges-statewide-colvin-fires-up-tv-ads-harris-hangs-on-hogan-coattails-in-1st-congress-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first four days of early voting for the November general election, statewide turnout surged over the last mid-term national election four years ago, while in Cecil County, where few local races are contested on the ballot, early turnout was sluggish. But if the local-only contests drew yawns, and the top-of-the-tickets gubernatorial race tilts heavily toward incumbent GOP governor Larry Hogan, the most local excitement seems to be coming from the US House race in District 1 between incumbent Republican Andy Harris and Democratic challenger Jesse Colvin. The district covers all of the Eastern Shore, including Cecil, as well as parts of Carroll, Harford and Baltimore counties. In multiple Facebook videos and a Saturday robocall, Harris appeared to be tugging on Hogan’s popular coattails, imploring voters to support the “Hogan/Harris team” and warning of dire consequences if state Republicans lose their party’s lone GOP seat in the congressional delegation. Colvin went on the TV airwaves with a new ad, playing almost non-stop on local news programs’ commercials airtime, firing handguns with his Republican wife at a gun range to highlight his military background and a bipartisan approach to politics. Local early voting began last Thursday and continues through Thursday [&#8230;]]]></description>
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