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		<title>Cecil County Exec Candidate Forum: Politics, Pauses, Policy; Questions on Budget, Land Use, Route 40 Ugliness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike national political debates in this election year that have often turned into rhetorical slugfests and personal attacks, a candidate’s forum for the four Republican candidates for Cecil County Executive was a mostly polite question and answer session, with candidates not engaging directly with one another. The most interesting moments came when some candidates had long pauses in their responses and one struggled to describe the programs and policies she would be in charge of if elected. The candidates’ forum, held at Cecil College on 2/27/2020, was hosted this year by the Cecil County Chamber of Commerce, the Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association, and BEPAC, the Business and Education Partnership Advisory Council&#8211; which consists of executives of major employers in the county that support education and job training efforts. In the past, the Chamber alone hosted county candidate forums. The moderator of the latest forum was Mike Ratchford, a Gore executive, chairman of the county’s Economic Development Commission and the Chamber’s government relations committee representative. Ratchford has served as moderator of past candidate forums and once again he was a calm, reasoned voice in posing questions to candidates and maintaining order and time limits on candidates’ responses..At the outset, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
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