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		<title>Cecil County Exec&#8217;s &#8216;Unaffiliated&#8217; Party Move, Appointment of Bowlsbey to Council Upheld by Judge; Smigiel Suit Dismissed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Circuit Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit by Del. Michael Smigiel challenging the appointment of Joyce Bowlsbey to the Cecil County Council, ruling there was “no support whatsoever” in the law for Smigiel’s claims and noting that the delegate hadn’t even bothered to respond to county legal arguments in the case although he was given an extended period of time to do so. Circuit Court Judge Thomas E. Marshall&#8211; a visiting judge who decided the case after local Cecil County judges recused themselves from hearing it&#8211; dismissed Smigiel’s lawsuit, saying that he failed to assert proper “standing” to sue and that his arguments misconstrued the “plain language” of the county Charter dealing with appointments and vacancies on the Council. Tari Moore switched her political party registration from Republican to “unaffiliated” shortly before resigning her seat on the Board of Commissioners/County Council to become Cecil County’s first County Executive last December. Under the county’s Charter, that step put the decision on filling the legislative vacancy solely into the hands of the County Council. The Council deadlocked, 2-2, even on how to proceed with filling the vacancy, so under the Charter the decision was up to Moore. Had Moore remained [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Twilight Zone: Broomell Rants Over Court Settlement&#8217;s Reversal of Amigos 2011 Zoning Coup</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To settle a lengthy and costly court case, Cecil County will reverse a 2011 decision by the old “Three Amigos” faction of the County Commissioners board to strip a Perryville property of its heavy industry zoning and downgrade it to the most restrictive agricultural designation. But Councilor Diana Broomell, who led the downzoning effort, lashed out Tuesday, attacking the County Council President, local ‘tea party’ activists and just about anyone in earshot. The county government has already spent more than $5,600 on legal fees in the case, according to county officials, and a memo calculated potential additional county legal bills of $45,000 if the case went to trial as scheduled on 7/15/13, and a likely appeal of any Circuit Court decision. Settling the case now would save those costs. And the settlement would restore the status quo of the property, located on Carpenters Point road in Perryville, to the same as it was before the Amigos downzoned it on their own initiative. But Broomell (R-4) did not go down without a fight, reading a statement at both a morning worksession and evening Council meeting in Elkton attacking the settlement of the court case. And she played to an evening crowd [&#8230;]]]></description>
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