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		<title>Candidates Vie for Pipkin&#8217;s Vacated State Senate Seat; Queen Anne&#8217;s County Dominates Field of 14</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 23:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iron grip held on the four-county 36th legislative district by former state Sen. E.J. Pipkin ( R) for over a decade has crumbled in the past week since he announced his resignation and departure from Maryland, with a crowded field of hopefuls lining up to seek appointment to his seat. By early evening Monday, there were 14 declared candidates, sources said. But the political dynamic of the contest— which is, at least initially, in the hands of the Republican Central Committees in each of the four counties comprising the district—could be complicated by the sheer volume of candidates and the potential for the Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley to have the final say if the committees do not unite on a single candidate. The four counties of the district—Cecil, Queen Anne’s, Kent and Caroline—each get, in effect, one vote. State law specifies the name of a candidate receiving a majority of the county committees will be sent to the governor for automatic ratification. But if two of the committees were to pick different candidates, and another candidate got two counties’ votes, it is unclear if that would be considered a &#8220;tie&#8221; to be broken by the governor. [Under the state [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>1st Dist.: Harris Ousts Incumbent Kratovil in Rematch of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lou Peck Contributing Editor, Cecil Times/ National Journal Despite a seven-figure financial effort by national Democrats to rescue him, freshman Rep. Frank Kratovil went down to defeat Tuesday in a rematch of his 2008 contest against GOP state Sen. Andy Harris. With more than 90 percent of the vote counted late Tuesday, Harris held a 54-42 percent lead over Kratovil, for a margin of more than 30,000 votes. In 2008, Kratovil &#8212; then the state’s attorney in Queen Anne’s County &#8212; defeated Harris by fewer than 3,000 votes out of more than 360,000 cast. He became the first Democrat to win the district – which includes the entire Eastern Shore along with portions of Baltimore, Harford and Anne Arundel counties on the Western Shore – in two decades. Kratovil’s 2008 victory came despite the fact that Republican presidential nominee John McCain captured the district by a 59-40 percent margin over President Obama. But Kratovil triumphed by capturing every county on the Eastern Shore. It was a very different story Tuesday: A partial breakdown of Eastern Shore counties showed two of the most populous going to Harris. The Republican won Cecil County by a 55-40 percent margin, and took Kratovil’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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