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		<title>New Cecil County Council Attorney, Chip MacLeod, Brings Deep Experience—and Stiff Spine—to County Legal Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The Cecil County Council has hired Charles “Chip” MacLeod&#8211; a Chestertown lawyer with decades of experience in local government and the founder of the Clean Chesapeake Coalition that has fought for sediment cleanup at the Conowingo Dam&#8211; as the new County Council attorney. And in his first appearance at the 7/13/2021 Council worksession, MacLeod ran verbal and legal rings around the Hornberger administration’s lawyer, Lawrence Scott, an Annapolis political consultant with limited legal experience. MacLeod replaces John Downs, an Elkton lawyer, who submitted a letter of resignation in mid-June. It was an open secret that several members of the Council were unhappy with what was seen as Downs’ lukewarm representation of the Council since the onset of Danielle Hornberger’s administration as County Executive seven months ago. Hornberger’s administration has taken multiple steps that undercut the authority of the Council, especially her unilateral and secret appointment of an Ethics Commission member after the Council had refused to confirm the appointee. [SEE CECIL TIMES Special Report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2021/06/hornberger-secretly-installs-orourke-on-ethics-panel-despite-county-councils-rejection-of-her-nomination-four-months-ago-council-members-angry-at-end-run/ ] MacLeod brings broad local government and legal experience to the Council position. He was associate director of the Maryland Association of Counties (MACO) in Annapolis and served for seven years as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hornberger Sent ‘Replacement’ Disclosure Form After Cecil County Exec GOP Primary; Had “Ballot Harvesting” Plan, Documents Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report—Part 1 Danielle Hornberger, apparent winner of the Republican primary election for Cecil County Executive, sent a “replacement” financial disclosure statement to the county Board of Elections in early July, more than a month after the election and seven months after the statement should have been filed under election laws, according to documents newly obtained by Cecil Times. The document was produced after multiple emails and conversations with local election officials and back-dated forms were inserted belatedly into county and state files, documents show. The documents tend to confirm, at least in part, most of the allegations contained in a Circuit Court lawsuit filed by current Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy, who lost overwhelmingly to Hornberger in the June 2 GOP primary election. McCarthy is seeking to invalidate the results of the primary, saying that Hornberger failed to qualify for the ballot and that some documents were falsified and backdated to cover up a “conspiracy” to violate the law. He is also seeking a temporary restraining order and an injunction to keep Hornberger’s name off the November general election ballot. McCarthy and his lawyers are seeking an expedited Circuit Court hearing in the case and are [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Ignores Legal Rules; Taxpayers Pay $ for Jackie Gregory&#8217;s Dinner Events, Legal Questions on Dual Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report (With legal footnotes) Cecil County Council member Jackie Gregory (R-5) has continued to collect a salary from county public schools in the current budget year, despite questions of county Charter and ethics rules barring Council members from paid employment with other county agencies. And she has also claimed reimbursement for tickets she bought to local civic dinners and banquets, despite county law prohibiting sending such bills to taxpayers, according to a CECIL TIMES investigation. In addition, the County Council has ignored its own rules for obtaining legal opinions from its outside legal counsel, including expenses incurred to review Gregory’s school employment status as well as private legal consultations between Gregory and the Council’s lawyer and private consultations with Councilor Bill Coutz (R-2), according to a review of invoices for legal services by John Downs, the Council’s lawyer, and Downs’ response to a Cecil Times public records request under state law. The county also paid an invoice for Coutz for a ticket to an Elkton dinner event. Furthermore, the issues have been the subject of recent closed-door meetings of the full Council, at which Council President Bob Meffley (R-2) said he “laid down the law” to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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