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		<title>Low Turnout, Cox Crew, Secret $ and Slams Shaped Cecil County Primary;  Miller Confirms Win to Return to Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Mrs. Hornberger County Exec Campaign Hits Husband&#8217;s Political Pals for $; Biggest Donors, Bucks, Benefit from Kevin Hornberger Political Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 01:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report Danielle Hornberger, wife of state Del. Kevin Hornberger, has raised more than $50,000 for her campaign for Cecil County Executive in the June Republican primary, relying heavily on her husband’s political contacts and campaign funds. And in her most recently reported donations, half of the money came from Port Deposit landowners who her husband backed in a land dispute with the state. The donations this year to Mrs. Hornberger by Gabrielle (Gaby) Buck, of Mount. Ararat Farm in Port Deposit, included a $5,500 donation on 2/10/2020, a $500 donation on 2/25/2020 and a $500 donation on 1/25/2020, according to the state elections database. That total&#8211; $6,500—exceeds the state’s legal $6,000 limit for donations by an individual to a single candidate’s campaign in a two-year election cycle. In addition, her Mount Ararat Farm business, as well as a family member, donated even more to Mrs. Hornberger. Frank Buck, of Port Deposit, donated the maximum $6,000 on 2/6/2020. Her Mt Ararat Farms LLC donated $2,000 on 2/4/2020 and $1,000 on 2/11/2020. In total, Buck personal and business donations to Mrs. Hornberger amounted to $15,500. That figure is more than half of all contributions and event ticket purchases [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State&#8217;s Attorney Candidates Raise Campaign $; A Backer Bashes Rival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three candidates running for Cecil County State’s Attorney in the June Republican primary have drawn very different bases of financial support for their campaigns, with one candidate drawing most of her support from just three aligned donors, another tapping the traditional lawyer donations, and the third relying mostly on small donors and his own pocket. Between the time she created her campaign committee on 2/8/2018 and 4/10/2018, Amanda Bessicks, a 34-year-old assistant State&#8217;s Attorney in Cecil County and a political newcomer, received donations of $14,350, plus an “in-kind” donation of a billboard, valued at $1,000, from attorney John Downs. She received a $1,000 donation listed on state records as coming from “Edward D. Rollins,” which Bessicks clarified was from Edward D.E. “Ellis” Rollins, the former Cecil County State’s Attorney, who hired Bessicks to work in that office. Ellis Rollins resigned his post after his conviction on two counts stemming from an indecent exposure case involving his conduct at an Ocean City hotel. Since Rollins’ departure last year, the office has been run on an interim basis by Steve Trostle, who was named to the post by the judges of the Circuit Court. Trostle, who does not live in Cecil [&#8230;]]]></description>
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