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		<title>Sammons Pressures State GOP to Ban McCarthy, Bowlsbey, Coutz on Local Party Panel; Questions on Role of Haire, State Chair and Hornberger Ally</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2022/11/sammons-pressures-state-gop-to-throw-mccarthy-bowlsbey-coutz-off-county-party-committee-despite-winning-seats-in-primary-questions-on-role-of-haire-state-chair-and-hornberger-ally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS It’s a good thing that Ronald Reagan, the late President and conservative Republican hero, never sought a seat on the Cecil County Republican Central Committee. If he had lived here, he wouldn’t qualify under retroactive sanctions now being proposed to ban anyone who ever donated to a Democrat or challenged a GOP nominee, before they were even sworn in to the local committee. (Reagan was a Democratic Party activist and donor before switching to the Republican side.) The campaign to nullify the decisions of county Republican voters—who elected Alan McCarthy, Joyce Bowlsbey and William Coutz to seats on the GOP Central Committee in the July primary but who have not yet been sworn into office—is being led by Vincent Sammons, the multiple online personality and political gadfly. (Sammons, an on again, off again chairman of the local panel got himself installed as chairman again at a secret meeting in August, filing documents with the state Board of Elections (BOE) proclaiming his chairman title effective 8/6/2022. ) Sammons declared in a statement posted on the committee’s Facebook page that the three seats had been declared vacant by the state party and invited local Republicans to apply for the seats. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Turnout, Cox Crew, Secret $ and Slams Shaped Cecil County Primary;  Miller Confirms Win to Return to Council</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2022/08/low-turnout-cox-crew-secret-and-slams-shaped-cecil-county-primary-miller-confirms-win-to-return-to-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Low voter turnout, a confusing state election schedule that pushed the primary election to the dog days of summer, and secret campaign money that financed a slew of negative and juvenile, cartoonish glossy flyers combined to make the recently concluded local election the nastiest since the infamous nose-biting incident at the polls not that many years ago. But the chief target of this year’s attacks, County Councilor Al Miller (R-3) survived, with 51.5 percent of the vote, and did so while walking the high road&#8211; without resorting to the sort of cheap shots orchestrated and financed by Del. Kevin Hornberger (R-35B). Kevin Hornberger assembled a “slate” of candidates trying to take over the Council to create a compliant majority to support his wife, Danielle Hornberger, the county executive whose $98,000 a year salary will be on the line in the 2024 election. Danielle Hornberger will still get a majority on the Council that will be sworn into office in December, but there will still be two independent voices—Miller and, depending on the issue, current Council President Bob Meffley (R-1). But it remains to be seen if Hornberger’s chief ally and advocate&#8211;Jackie Gregory (R-5), the current vice president of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Miller Apparent Win on Cecil Council;  Kevin Hornberger Squeaks By in Crowded Delegate Race with 61% of Voters Against Him; McCarthy Tops Sammons on GOP Panel</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2022/07/al-miller-apparent-winner-for-cecil-county-council-kevin-hornberger-squeaks-by-in-crowded-delegate-primary-race-with-61-of-voters-against-him-mccarthy-tops-sammons-for-gop-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS With all but a small handful of overseas and absentee votes left to count, Cecil County voters apparently returned County Councilor Al Miller (R-3) to a second term, with 51.3 percent of the vote, and rejected a vicious, negative attack campaign financed by Del. Kevin Hornberger (R-35B)—who narrowly won retention of his own seat in a three-way GOP primary race, despite over 61 percent of voters opposing Hornberger. And in one of the more ironic political outcomes, former County Executive Alan McCarthy (R)&#8211; who lost his re-election bid two years ago to Danielle Hornberger, Kevin’s wife&#8211; won a seat on the county’s Republican Central Committee. McCarthy won 2,878votes, or 34 more votes than Vincent Sammons, a Hornberger ally, political trickster and agitator known for multiple online personalities. Sammons did get a seat on the nine-member panel, as the bottom vote-getter. But two Hornberger-backed candidates for County Council won seats that will give Danielle Hornberger and her chief ally, Council vice president Jackie Gregory (R-5), effective control of the five-member Council as of December. The Cecil County Board of Elections (BOE) conducted its third vote count on Wednesday (7/27/2022) for “provisional” ballots, after earlier tallies of election day and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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