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		<title>Danielle Hornberger Finally Declares Run for Cecil Co Exec; Invokes Trump, Harris in Pledge to &#8220;Rollback&#8221; Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS After many weeks of political teasing, including a fundraiser guessing game about her plans, Danielle Hornberger, wife of a state Delegate, announced her plans to run for Cecil County Executive with a pledge to “rollback” tax increases imposed in 2017 by incumbent Alan McCarthy Both candidates are Republicans and will be seeking the party’s nomination in the April, 2020 primary election. Hornberger,38, a part-time community liaison aide to US Rep. Andy Harris (R-1) in his Bel Air district office, invoked President Trump and Harris as inspirations for her platform as a “fiscally conservative Republican” and focused her ire on McCarthy, a licensed veterinarian and former County Council member for four years before his election as County Executive in 2016. She ignored the third declared candidate in the GOP primary contest: Ewing McDowell, a Rising Sun area agriculture businessman currently employed by the state Department of Commerce as an agriculture specialist. McDowell has a long record of leadership posts with state and local farming organizations as well as political experience from his past unsuccessful run for a state Delegate seat. [SEE previous CECIL TIMES report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2019/09/mcdowell-makes-it-official-in-race-for-cecil-county-exec-touts-conservative-agenda-hornbergers-play-guessing-game-for-political/ ] Before a small crowd of about 60 supporters at the Sinking [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>McCarthy Proposes Property, Income Tax Increases in First &#8216;Balanced&#8217; Cecil County Budget in Decades; More $ for Cops, Library but Nicks School Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2017 21:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy has proposed his first budget that breaks with years of deficit-financed spending policies in the county but takes the politically risky road of raising property and income taxes to pay for county services. Property taxes would rise by $100 a year for a home valued at $200,000, while local income tax rates would rise from 2.8 percent to 3 percent. McCarthy’s budget is a landmark fiscal blueprint in recent county budget history, clearly setting out the costs of services that county citizens have demanded—for schools, libraries and public safety—and asks county residents if they are willing to put their money where their mouths are. Unlike the past four budgets advanced by his predecessor, Tari Moore&#8211;which relied on substantial drains on reserve funds accumulated over many years as safeguards against fiscal and weather emergencies&#8211; McCarthy’s budget is fully funded by actual revenues expected in the Fiscal 2018 budget year, which begins 7/1/2017. “This is my budget,” McCarthy said in announcing his proposals on Friday (3/31/2017.) “I will take full responsibility, be you like it or like it not.” McCarthy was sworn into office in December, 2016. County budget officials calculate that the “unassigned fund balance” reserve [&#8230;]]]></description>
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