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		<title>Al Miller Apparent Win on Cecil Council;  Kevin Hornberger Squeaks By in Crowded Delegate Race with 61% of Voters Against Him; McCarthy Tops Sammons on GOP Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS With all but a small handful of overseas and absentee votes left to count, Cecil County voters apparently returned County Councilor Al Miller (R-3) to a second term, with 51.3 percent of the vote, and rejected a vicious, negative attack campaign financed by Del. Kevin Hornberger (R-35B)—who narrowly won retention of his own seat in a three-way GOP primary race, despite over 61 percent of voters opposing Hornberger. And in one of the more ironic political outcomes, former County Executive Alan McCarthy (R)&#8211; who lost his re-election bid two years ago to Danielle Hornberger, Kevin’s wife&#8211; won a seat on the county’s Republican Central Committee. McCarthy won 2,878votes, or 34 more votes than Vincent Sammons, a Hornberger ally, political trickster and agitator known for multiple online personalities. Sammons did get a seat on the nine-member panel, as the bottom vote-getter. But two Hornberger-backed candidates for County Council won seats that will give Danielle Hornberger and her chief ally, Council vice president Jackie Gregory (R-5), effective control of the five-member Council as of December. The Cecil County Board of Elections (BOE) conducted its third vote count on Wednesday (7/27/2022) for “provisional” ballots, after earlier tallies of election day and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Del. Hornberger, Councilor Miller in Fights for Political Lives in GOP Primary; Landslide Wins for Sheriff Adams, Wills Register Nickle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS If there is Karma in politics, Del. Kevin Hornberger (R-35B) is facing it: so confident of a re-election victory in a three-way race, he devoted much effort and political cash to promote allies of his wife, Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger, for the County Council in Tuesday’s Republican primary election. But he apparently failed to see the very real threat to his own legislative seat. And the chief target of the Hornbergers’ avalanche of glossy, negative and untrue flyers, incumbent Councilor Al Miller (R-3), is just five votes behind their own protégé, Bob Gatchell, an actor with a repertoire of cross-dressing drag show performances and a political newcomer. There are at least 1,026 Republican ballots still to be counted in a canvass of dropbox and mailed ballots that begins on Thursday 7/21/2022, according to state Board of Elections (BOE) data for Cecil County. Additional mail-in ballots may be received before a second canvass next week. It remains to be seen if Kevin Hornberger can hang on to or expand his small 43-vote margin of victory over Adam Streight, a county Sheriff’s Deputy and former president of the FOP Lodge 2 police union. In early voting and Election Day [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hornberger Admin Killed Longstanding Pay “Parity” in Cops Contract, Deputies Barred from Sharing in 6% Mid-Year Windfall Given Favored Few</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The Hornberger administration demanded removal of a longstanding provision of Cecil County Sheriff’s Deputies’ union contracts that assured cops of receiving equal pay boosts given to other county workers, while the administration was secretly drafting new payscales and a plan to boost pay for other workers by 6 percent, or double the Deputies’ contract pay raise this year, documents show. As a result, Deputies represented by the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) lost their past pay protections and were frozen out of much higher pay hikes given recently to other, non-union county employees who do not risk their lives to protect citizens. Meanwhile, the Cecil County Council got its first look at County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s proposed Fiscal 2023 budget at a 4/5/2022 worksession, and several Councilors challenged Hornberger’s proposal to convene a “Blue Ribbon Commission” to study police and emergency workers compensation and make recommendations for the future—but no hard cash even as the Sheriff’s Office faces crushing losses of deputies and corrections officers due to higher pay scales and bonuses offered by other area police agencies. In addition, some council members and an independent consultant advising the County Council questioned the budget’s unusual format that hid [&#8230;]]]></description>
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