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		<title>Scott, New Cecil County Attorney, Fumbles First Meeting of Hornberger’s New Ethics Panel; Clueless on Open Meetings Law, State Ethics Commission Role</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS It was the first time that Lawrence Scott, an Annapolis political consultant and the new Cecil County Attorney, put in an official appearance at a public county meeting when he presided over the first session of the all-new membership of the county’s Ethics Commission on Tuesday 4/20/2021. It did not go well. First, the audio portion of the livestreamed meeting was muted for about the first fifteen minutes of the session, before an audience member was able to raise a ‘hand’ in the online format to advise that no one could hear the proceedings. When the audio was then enabled, Scott related what he said was the state of play thus far: approval of the meeting agenda, discussion of a list of members of county boards and commissions who had failed to submit a required ethics disclosure form, and a decision to send a letter to apparent violators giving them 30 days to submit the required forms. No advance agenda had been posted on the Ethics Commission website, as required by law. Scott’s recitation did not elaborate on what the rest of the actual agenda was. Scott then led a discussion about why members of the Bainbridge Development [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Tiptoes, Mostly, on Questions to Hornberger Picks to Replace Ethics Panel; Last-Minute Party Switch, Score-Settling</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council interviewed the five nominees from County Executive Danielle Hornberger to take over the county’s Ethics Commission at a Tuesday (2/9/2021) worksession, with members posing questions that mostly tiptoed around some of the key questions surrounding Hornberger’s decisions—and actions that could be a template for future wholesale removal of other county board memberships. The biggest unanswered question in the room was whether Andrew Goins, an associate pastor at Pleasant View Baptist Church, could set aside his church’s strong anti-LGBTQ and anti-gay marriage views to decide cases that might involve LGBTQ community members fairly and without bias. And there was also an unanswered question about how another nominee, a supposed Democrat, would consider potentially partisan matters. Apparently unknown to most Council members at the time, one nominee—Heather O’Rourke—only registered as a Democrat days before she was picked by Hornberger for the ethics panel. During her discussion with the Council, she repeatedly emphasized that her status as a Democrat would give her ‘independence’ and said she was experienced in standing up to people of other political views. County law requires that all members of the five-member ethics panel must be registered county voters and the panel may have “no [&#8230;]]]></description>
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