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		<title>Cecil County Politics: Business, Bipartisan Leaders Seek Reform of Current Commissioners&#8217; Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There wasn’t a “Smipkin” in sight Wednesday night when a new business-oriented political action committee held its first official meeting in Elkton to organize a campaign against the current ruling majority of the Cecil County Commissioners. But there was a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 300 people, a bipartisan turnout of business owners, current and former elected officials, and citizens, all seeking a new political day in the county. Despite monsoon-like rain, the overflow crowd showed up at Mick’s Crab House (the former Bentley’s) on Route 40 in Elkton to hear organizers of the new group, Cecil Business Leaders for Better Government (CBLBG) PAC, outline their goals to educate voters, recruit candidates and raise funds in the 2012 election season. David K. Williams, chairman of the group, surveyed the crowd and declared the event “exciting” and just the start of a new community initiative to organize citizens and business leaders to engage in county issue activism. “We’re going to be very political,” he said, “but we’re not going to be partisan.” He said Democrats, Republicans and independents were all welcome to become involved. Indeed, the crowd was a broad mix of the local political spectrum. Republican Commissioners Robert Hodge (R-5) and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commissioners Name Owen Thorne&#8211;Litigant Against County&#8211; to Planning Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A divided Cecil County Board of Commissioners Tuesday appointed Owen Thorne, a failed candidate for county commissioner and a vocal opponent of development and infrastructure proposals in the northern county—to the county Planning Commission. The 3-2 decision followed the increasingly usual pattern of Commissioners James Mullin (R-1), Diana Broomell (R-4) and Michael Dunn (R-3) joining together to approve the appointment while Commissioners Robert Hodge (R-5) and Tari Moore (R-2) opposed. Thorne is a longtime manager of a record and music store in Newark, DE and for the past few years has been employed at the New Castle County (DE) public library, according to his “Linked In” social media page. Thorne also ran unsuccessfully for County Commissioner in 2006, coming in second to Brian Lockhart in the Democratic primary and a few votes ahead of Joe Janusz in that contest. The seat on the Planning Commission to which Thorne was appointed was vacated by Janusz. Janusz was considered a moderate on planning issues who was not afraid to cast a few controversial votes, based on the issues and individual circumstances, while overall supporting a slow-growth agenda. Thorne has staked out a firm anti-growth agenda, participating in lawsuits against the county on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commissioners Slapped on Wrist by State Open Meetings Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 19:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A state open meetings board has slapped the Cecil County Commissioners on the wrists for going behind closed doors in 2010 to hire a lobbyist to oppose two bills pushed in Annapolis by state Sen. E.J. Pipkin and Del. Michael Smigiel, both R-36, that would have limited the powers of county government leaders. In a report filed April 11, 2011, the state Open Meetings Compliance Board concluded that the County Commissioners “made an effort to comply with the formalities of the Act” but that their actual closed-door discussions went beyond the exceptions they cited under the Open Meetings law when they decided to go into closed sessions. The findings carry no penalties or fines but serve as a slap on the wrist to the County Commissioners. Since the report was sent to the county, the Commissioners have been noticeably careful to cite full chapter and verse of permissible exceptions of the open meetings law before going into closed-door discussions at their weekly Tuesday worksessions. The county paid $5,380 to a Baltimore attorney, Lawrence Haislip, of the Miles and Stockbridge law firm, to represent the Commissioners in their response to the complaint to the open meetings board, according to documents obtained [&#8230;]]]></description>
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