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		<title>Incumbent Judge Will Davis Wins Cecil County Circuit Court Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge William W. Davis, Jr., known locally as “Will” in his work with youth groups and charities to aid troubled children, won election to a 15-year term on the Cecil County Circuit Court bench on Tuesday, as voters confirmed Gov. Larry Hogan’s choice of Davis for an appointment to the bench in 2016. To win election to the seat, Davis defeated two challengers—Edwin B. Fockler IV, an assistant public defender, and former state Delegate Michael D. Smigiel, Sr. All of the candidates were Republicans. But since judicial positions are considered non-partisan, candidates appeared on both the Democratic and Republican primary ballots. Under state law, if one candidate won the Democratic primary while another person won the Republican primary, then those two names would proceed to the general election ballot for voters to make a final choice. But with Davis winning both party primaries, he will appear unopposed on the general election ballot and thus has already won de-facto election to the post. Circuit Court judges serve a 15-year term after being elected by local voters. With all but two precinct tallies completed, in the Republican primary, Davis won 53 percent of the vote. Fockler received 29.1 percent, while Smigiel garnered [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Last of Smipkins Seek Elkton Rule; Zeauskas, Gorman Morph into &#8220;Zormans,&#8221; to Attack Piner, Givens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2016 21:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY Cecil County has been there, done that, with several years of political turmoil instigated by the old Smipkin political machine and its cloned “Three Amigos” rule of the old county Board of Commissioners. Now, with that machine broken down and tossed into the political landfill, two cogs in the machine are looking to clone it into a new “Zorman” machine to dominate the Elkton town council. Robert (Bob) Gorman and Chris Zeauskas are running in Tuesday’s town council elections, seeking to oust incumbents Earl Piner and Charles Givens. The Zormans are also aligned with a currently seated council member. D.J. Van Reenan, who has repeatedly attacked fellow council members and town mayor Robert Alt, often in personal terms. There’s plenty of political and substantive room to raise questions about town business or suggest different ways of doing things. But the problem with the Zormans is tactics, attacks and a past record of political shenanigans aimed solely at helping political pals and advancing their own agenda, slinging mud often at the expense of decent public servants’ reputations. For just about every valid question that could be raised—from town water rates, to crime, to town fiscal actions—the Zormans turn the issues [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Courts: Smigiel, Rollins, Others Apply for Vacant Court Seats; Lock Up Court Seal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 19:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lock up the official seal of the state Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC): Mike Smigiel, three-time loser in recent political campaigns including a bid for a Circuit Court judgeship in which he misappropriated the AOC seal, is at it again. The former state Delegate has filed applications for a gubernatorial appointment to both Circuit Court and District Court vacant seats on the Cecil County bench. Also filing an application for appointment to the Circuit Court bench is current Cecil County State’s Attorney Ellis (E.D.E) Rollins, a Republican whose father and grandfather were also judges. It has long been known in local legal and political circles that Rollins wanted to follow in the family footsteps to a court seat, and that he was especially interested in seeking the seat that recently became available due to the retirement of Judge V. Michael Whelan. (Whelan officially retired last fall, but has continued to fill-in on the local bench as a “senior” or retired judge with a limited caseload.) Rollins was previously passed over for a governor’s appointment to two seats on the Circuit Court. Rollins drew controversy in his past county State’s Attorney political campaign for unilaterally appointing his son to a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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