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		<title>Two GOP Panels File Hershey&#8217;s Name for Senate 36th Seat to End Local Process, with Gov. to Choose Hershey or Smigiel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two weeks of political drama, two county Republican committees have sent to Gov. Martin O’Malley the name of their nominee—Del. Steve Hershey—to fill the vacant state Senate seat in Dist. 36, thus apparently ending the local process and shifting the decision to Annapolis to break a tie between Hershey and Del. Michael Smigiel. But even after the hand-writing was on the wall, Friday afternoon Smigiel launched yet another gambit to try to shift the local votes his way before the ultimate deadline of 9/10/13 for the local committees to submit their choices to the governor. The Caroline County Republican Central Committee had voted unanimously to support Hershey and on Thursday sent that tally to the governor’s appointments secretary, according to Robert Willoughby, the panel’s chair. And sources said that Kent County, which had a majority vote for Hershey, did the same. That effectively moots efforts by Smigiel to try to get yet another re-vote in the process. Smigiel won his only clear cut victory on an 8-1 vote in his home Cecil County GOP panel, which is controlled by a slate of members chosen with financial support and endorsements by Smigiel’s political organization in 2010. Then, after two votes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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