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		<title>Cecil County Council Politics: Harmer Has All-Local Donations in Dist. 5 Challenge; Incumbent Gregory Taps Annapolis, Harris $</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2020/01/cecil-county-council-politics-harmer-has-all-local-donations-in-dist-5-challenge-incumbent-gregory-taps-annapolis-harris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 20:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The old political wisdom, “all politics is local,” is being turned on its head in the District 5 race for Cecil County Council, with the incumbent, Jackie Gregory, raking in Annapolis and Washington campaign donations while her opponent in the 2020 Republican primary election, Don Harmer, is relying on Cecil County supporters, according to new campaign finance reports filed with the state Board of Elections. Gregory has received a total of $6,303 in contributions, political committee transfers, event ticket proceeds and “in kind” donations of services, with expenditures of $1,001. She reported a remaining bank balance of $5,301 in as yet unspent money. Her donations included money from residents of Delaware and Pennsylvania as well as the Annapolis area and other non-Cecil County locales. The most interesting aspect of Gregory’s campaign finance report, which covered activity in 2019 up until 1/8/2020, is the proportion of her political money that came from state and federal political candidates’ accounts&#8211; $2,350 of her total of all funds raised. That figure is almost as much as the $2,638 she received in direct contributions from individuals. State Sen. Jason Gallion, a Harford County Republican who represents a district (35) covering Harford and Cecil [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Books, Business, Ballfields; Council Faces Heavy Lifting for Limited Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy’s first-ever budget proposal landed with a bang at the doorstep of the County Council this week, accompanied by a perhaps surprisingly muted reaction, so far, from the public and positive endorsements from local business leaders and representatives of popular county programs. McCarthy’s budget raises property tax rates and local income taxes, invests in sewerline expansion to promote economic development in the growth corridor along Route 40 and nicks school spending proposals but still provides a substantial boost above state-mandated minimum aid levels. It is the first county budget in decades to be fully balanced between annual revenues and spending, without deficit spending gimmicks of the past. It is a pay-the-piper budget, asking the Council and citizens to pay-as-you go for services that people say they want, even if they are unhappy about paying the real price for them. [SEE detailed CECIL TIMES report on the new budget proposal here: https://ceciltimes.com/2017/04/mccarthy-proposes-property-income-tax-increases-in-first-balanced-cecil-county-budget-in-decades-more-for-cops-library-but-nicks-school-budget/ ] The executive’s proposed Fiscal 2018 budget calls for a five-cent boost on the property tax rate and would increase the local “piggyback” income tax rate from 2.8 percent to 3 percent. The county budget would be balanced between actual revenues and spending, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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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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