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		<title>Cecil County Council Campaign: Miller Top Fundraiser, Larsen Re-Writes History, Wilson AWOL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2018 11:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Miller, a Republican candidate for the Cecil County Council in District 3, is the apparent top fundraiser in this year’s races for three Council seats, raising more than $24,000 so far in his bid to unseat an incumbent in the June 26 GOP primary. In three races with candidates aligned with the local ultra-conservative group, Campaign for Liberty, candidates have only received donations from officers of the C4L group. The third candidate has yet to file any campaign finance reports in his Council campaign, despite state law providing he should have filed two reports by now. And one of those candidates recently filed an overhauled version of his earlier report, re-writing his campaign finance history after Cecil Times reported that he had made expenditures that were not accounted for on his initial state finance report. County Council candidates run from the district in which they live, but all county voters get to cast a vote for all candidates throughout the county. DISTRICT 3— In this contest, Miller, a farm equipment sales executive and longtime president of the county fair whose family has deep roots in the agriculture community, is seeking to replace incumbent Councilor Dan Schneckenburger, a construction piping [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Rules Smigiel Off the Hook to Pay Taxpayers&#8217; $40K Legal Bill for his Lawsuit Against Cecil County</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2014/02/judge-rules-smigiel-off-the-hook-to-pay-taxpayers-40k-legal-bill-for-his-lawsuit-against-cecil-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know it’s going to be an interesting, or circuitous, argument when a legal or political document begins with an 1835 quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville, that astute observer of early America. A Circuit Court judge recently struck both legal and political notes in ruling that Del. Michael Smigiel (R-36) should not be required to pay nearly $40,000 in county legal fees for his losing lawsuit challenging Tari Moore’s change in political party registration. “There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn’t sooner or later turn into a judicial one,” visiting Judge Thomas E. Marshall wrote, beginning his opinion with the quotation from de Tocqueville. And the judge cited lots of local politics before concluding that Smigiel’s handling of his lawsuit didn’t rise to the level of “bad faith” that would meet stringent state legal standards for “sanctions” that would have required him to compensate the county government for legal fees it had to pay to defend itself against Smigiel’s lawsuit. “The original complaint contained allegations of political chicanery,” the judge observed. And Smigiel’s named client in the case, Chris Zeauskas, chair of the county’s Republican Central Committee, was “not amused by Mrs. Moore’s political maneuver.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
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