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		<title>Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R) Explores Congress Run Against Dutch Ruppersberger (D); Uphill Fight but She Has a Unique 2012 Shot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R-Cecil/Harford) said Monday she has formed an “exploratory committee” to consider a run for Congress and the 2nd District seat now held by Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger. If she does run, it would be a very tough uphill fight but the state and national political dynamics of 2012 suggest it would not be an impossible task. With a little more than a month before the state’s candidate filing deadline, she will have to evaluate her chances quickly and decide once and for all if she will run. And as soon as she starts to rake in all but minimal financial support, she will have to fish or cut bait. Under Federal Election Commission rules, an exploratory committee can raise and spend money for “testing the waters” activities such as polling but once $5,000 is raised and spent for “campaign” activities, the potential candidate is considered an actual candidate and must file an official statement of candidacy with the FEC. On her Facebook wall, Jacobs announced her move and commented, “I’m tired of the excuses coming from Washington and believe it’s time to challenge the Beltway status quo. Congress exists to serve the people and they are failing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Sen. Nancy Jacobs Gives Up GOP Leader Post to Explore Political Options; Redistricting Scenarios Abound</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANALYSIS State Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R-Harford/Cecil) told fellow Republicans in Annapolis Thursday night that she would not run again for the GOP Minority Leader post in the state Senate for the 2012 session, saying she wanted to explore other political options&#8211; including a possible run for governor or Harford County executive in 2014 or Congress against incumbent Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-2) in 2012. But that declaration reflects a deeper political intrigue in the upcoming redistricting battle for state legislative districts following the 2010 census and the Democratic-controlled redistricting process that will re-draw state Senate and House of Delegates district lines. A Democratic-controlled advisory commission will submit a legislative redistricting proposal to Governor Martin O’Malley in December and the governor will submit his version to the General Assembly in January. Jacobs’ declaration was predicated on the potential redistricting of her state Senate district (34) to cut out Cecil County. Western Cecil County provided her with an overwhelming margin of support that was responsible for her re-election in 2010, after Democrat Art Helton beat her by a tiny margin in her Harford County home base. In an email, Jacobs said she advised fellow Senate Republicans that she felt she should not seek [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Census: Criminals Add to Population; Possible Redistricting Impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s criminal element costs taxpayers a lot of money, from the harm they inflict on the community by their crimes to the costs of bringing them to justice in court and incarcerating them. But now 179 of our least productive citizens have done us a small favor: a slight boost in the county’s population under revised census figures. But statewide, the criminals could have an impact on redistricting for Congress and state legislative seats. The criminals don’t even live here any more. They are incarcerated in state prisons located in other counties. But because they lived here before being locked up, they have been added to our local population under a 2010 state law. The “No Representation without Population Act” required that the state re-calculate the official US census data, for the purpose of redistricting for congressional and state legislative districts, to apportion state prison inmates to their home counties. In the past, Washington, Allegany and Somerset counties have had large artificial boosts in census population figures because inmates at state prisons located in those counties were counted as residents. Now, Cecil County’s official population is listed as 101,287, up 179 from the initial Census report of 101,108. (See [&#8230;]]]></description>
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