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		<title>Cecil County Exec Candidate Forum: Politics, Pauses, Policy; Questions on Budget, Land Use, Route 40 Ugliness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 19:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike national political debates in this election year that have often turned into rhetorical slugfests and personal attacks, a candidate’s forum for the four Republican candidates for Cecil County Executive was a mostly polite question and answer session, with candidates not engaging directly with one another. The most interesting moments came when some candidates had long pauses in their responses and one struggled to describe the programs and policies she would be in charge of if elected. The candidates’ forum, held at Cecil College on 2/27/2020, was hosted this year by the Cecil County Chamber of Commerce, the Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association, and BEPAC, the Business and Education Partnership Advisory Council&#8211; which consists of executives of major employers in the county that support education and job training efforts. In the past, the Chamber alone hosted county candidate forums. The moderator of the latest forum was Mike Ratchford, a Gore executive, chairman of the county’s Economic Development Commission and the Chamber’s government relations committee representative. Ratchford has served as moderator of past candidate forums and once again he was a calm, reasoned voice in posing questions to candidates and maintaining order and time limits on candidates’ responses..At the outset, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Primary Election Ballots Set; Meffley Unopposed for Council, Four GOPs Seek County Exec Post; Crowded US House Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2020 01:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for candidates to file for the April primary elections passed at 9 p.m. on Friday (1/24/2020) with no last-minute surprises in Cecil County, as two late entrants filed several days ago in the County Executive’s race. Four Republicans are competing in the GOP primary while a Democrat is unopposed in his party primary and will face the winner of the GOP primary in the November general election. The luckiest man in county politics is County Council president Bob Meffley (R-1), who is unchallenged in his party primary and Democrats did not field a candidate for the position. At least in theory, the Democrats’ Central Committee could still put forward a candidate after the filing deadline, but the party has not had much success in recruiting candidates for down-ballot races in the past few years. At stake in the 2020 local elections are the County Executive position, the District 5 County Council seat, and two seats on the county school board (which is a non-partisan race.) Also on the ballot is the US House seat in District 1, which covers all of the Eastern Shore, including Cecil County, and parts of Harford, Carroll and Baltimore counties. The candidates, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>CECIL CHATTER: County Exec Race&#8211; Coutz Belatedly Dreams Big with Tiny $; Democrat Kase Plays Banjo for Votes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILL COUTZ DREAMS BIG; CAMPAIGN $ SMALL, LATE AND LATENT Cecil County Council member Bill Coutz (R-2) has finally filed his campaign finance report that was due last week, with fines for his tardiness and a new treasurer and campaign chairman to replace two longtime supporters who resigned from his campaign. And while he has posted a video and told a public meeting of local volunteer firefighters that he will run for County Executive, he still has not filed necessary paperwork to do so. And with just $279 in his campaign account, his political fortune is but a dust speck in comparison with his already declared opponents in the Republican primary election. Coutz failed to comply with state law to report his ongoing campaign committee’s finances for the calendar year 2019, a report that was due 1/15/2020. As a result, he was fined $120; earlier in the day, the fine was listed as still unpaid, but by the close of business on Wednesday state records listed the fine as no longer having an unpaid balance. That is an important matter: candidates cannot file a certificate of candidacy for another race if they have unpaid violation balances for their campaign committees, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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