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		<title>Cecil County Council Behaves Politely, for a Change, Under the Watchful Eye of the Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a difference a Deputy in the room makes. After a raucous Cecil County Council worksession last week at which Councilor Diana Broomell shouted at another lawmaker to “shut up,” on Tuesday the voices were hushed, the tone polite and Broomell even raised her hand to ask permission to speak. Seated a few feet away was a deputy Sheriff, in full uniform, just in case the Council president needed someone to escort a misbehaving Council member from the room. Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) initiated a discussion of the Council’s rules of decorum, in the aftermath of last week’s Broomell meltdown, telling the full Council on Tuesday that recent events had been an “embarrassment” to the Council “and Cecil County government in general.” Henceforth, he said, the rules would be strictly enforced, so that “meetings are orderly, civil, professional and efficient.” [SEE previous Cecil Times report on the previous meeting meltdown here: https://ceciltimes.com/2014/02/political-paranoia-on-shocking-display-at-cecil-county-council-broomell-loses-control/ ] And “if some Council members want to say I am infringing on their right to freedom of speech, so be it,” Hodge said. Broomell did just that, saying the rules were being “enforced one way” and should also apply to members of the audience. But Hodge [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Paranoia on Shocking Display at Cecil County Council; Broomell Loses Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY “Paranoia strikes deep, Into your life it will creep; Starts when you’re always afraid, Step out of line, the man come and take you away…” &#8211;Buffalo Springfield song, “For What It’s Worth” There were many people at the Cecil County Council’s 2/18/14 worksession who wished someone would come and take Councilor Diana Broomell (R-4) away when she had a meltdown, over what should have been a routine review of the minutes of a previous meeting, but instead turned into a tantrum in which Broomell told another council member to “Shut up.” (Due to a badly sprained ankle from a fall in the ice and snow, we were not in the room at the time but listened to the drama on audiotapes of the meeting. The sounds of shocked gasps in the room were clearly audible on the tapes as Broomell ranted, interrupted other councilors who had the floor and generally disrupted the proceedings.) It took the County Council much of its first year of existence to draft and ratify a handbook of policies and procedures for the panel’s operations, largely due to objections and demands raised by Broomell. The handbook, based on Roberts Rules of Order, specifies escalating steps [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council: Potty Mouths, Potty Breaks, Port-a-Potties; Decorum Degenerates, Hodge Biz Plans Get Cold Shoulders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council, which has spent much of its ten months of existence arguing over how members should behave, dissolved into yet another verbal slugfest Tuesday over how to enforce standards of “decorum”—and an unusual split among the current panel majority over a plan by Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) to help local businesses to get a piece of the financial action on local government contracts. At the Council’s Tuesday morning worksession, a revised version of previously proposed steps to enforce standards of proper behavior among members of the County Council was denounced by Councilor Alan McCarthy (R-1) as “watered down to the point of being useless.” His objections were to proposed revisions, drafted by Councilor Diana Broomell (R-4), that emphasized sanctions that should be imposed on members of the audience at Council meetings, rather than provisions previously proposed that mirrored the standard “Roberts Rules of Order” that empower the presiding officer—usually, the Council President—to impose order and gavel offending Councilors to silence, an apology, or in the extreme, banishment from a meeting. So McCarthy made a motion to simply scrap detailed and escalating levels of sanctions and instead use the Roberts Rules provisions that would empower the presiding [&#8230;]]]></description>
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