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		<title>Rivals for State&#8217;s Attorney, Register of Wills Face Sharp Questions; Judge Race Calmer at GOP Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 22:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were some tough questions when rival candidates in the June Republican primary for Cecil County State’s Attorney and the Register of Wills office squared off in a candidates’ forum sponsored by the Republican Club of Cecil County last week, putting some candidates on the defensive hot seat. In contrast, a panel of three candidates vying for a seat on the county’s Circuit Court was uncharacteristically mellow, given one candidate’s past record of attack-dog campaigns. Members of the audience at the event, held at the VFW hall in Chesapeake City, submitted written questions to the moderator, James Dubuque, vice president of the club, who then picked questions to pose to the candidates. STATE’S ATTORNEY: In the race for the open State’s Attorney seat, all three candidates currently work in the prosecutor’s office: Amanda Bessicks, a four-year veteran of the office who currently specializes in prosecuting cases involving crimes against children and domestic violence; Karl Fockler, deputy State’s Attorney since last year and a more than ten-year veteran of the office; and Kevin Urick, a prosecutor with over 12 years’ experience in Cecil County and previously a Baltimore City prosecutor for over 15 years. In opening statements, Bessicks said she would [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Smigiels File Double-Play, Names-the-Same Political Contests: Dad for Judge, Son for Dad&#8217;s Old Delegate Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Never let it be said that perennial candidate and three-time loser Michael D. Smigiel, Sr., doesn’t have any more political tricks up his sleeves, even if they aren’t the sleeves on a Cecil County judicial robe that he desperately wants to wear. Now he’s trying for a two-fer: a judicial seat for himself and his old District 36 state Delegate seat for his son and namesake, Michael D. Smigiel, Jr., a young filmmaker and video photographer. Daddy Smigiel lost his delegate seat in the Republican primary in 2014, when he didn’t even carry his home base of Cecil County in the four-county area covered by District 36. Daddy has also lost a previous run for a judicial seat and lost badly two years ago in a GOP primary challenge to incumbent Congressman Andy Harris (R-1st). Smigiel Sr. filed on Monday as a candidate for a Circuit Court judicial seat, running against incumbent judge Will Davis. Davis was appointed by Gov. Hogan to fill a vacancy on the local bench in 2016 and, under state law, must stand before the voters in this year’s elections for a 15-year term. (Davis was recommended for the court by an independent nominating [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commissioners Pick Ed Cole for Last Seat on Charter Transition Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners Tuesday selected Ed Cole, a former county commissioner and current Orphans’ Court judge, to a seat on the new Charter government advisory panel. His selection came on a unanimous vote, after past contentious discussions on who should help guide the county’s transition to Charter government in the next two years. The Commissioners decided a week ago to create an advisory group including the three newly-elected Commissioners—Diana Broomell (R-4), Michael Dunn (R-3) and Tari Moore (R-2)—who will automatically become members of the new County Council after a county executive is elected for the first time in the 2012 election. In addition, the panel will include the county administrator, budget director, human resources director, and county Treasurer. But the Commissioners deferred a decision on who would hold the lone seat on the panel to represent the Charter Board that drafted the charter document approved overwhelmingly by voters in the November 2010 election. A three-member majority—Broomell, Dunn and Commissioners President James Mullin (R-1)—made it clear they would not accept Joyce Bowlsbey, who chaired the charter board and worked hard to educate voters about the Charter document. (See previous Cecil Times report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2011/03/cecil-county-charter-commissioners-diss-bowlsbey-seek-new-face-on-charter-panel-to-be-run-by-old-faces/ Cole served as a one-term county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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