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		<title>Cecil County Sen. Nancy Jacobs Gives Up GOP Leader Post to Explore Political Options; Redistricting Scenarios Abound</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANALYSIS State Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R-Harford/Cecil) told fellow Republicans in Annapolis Thursday night that she would not run again for the GOP Minority Leader post in the state Senate for the 2012 session, saying she wanted to explore other political options&#8211; including a possible run for governor or Harford County executive in 2014 or Congress against incumbent Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-2) in 2012. But that declaration reflects a deeper political intrigue in the upcoming redistricting battle for state legislative districts following the 2010 census and the Democratic-controlled redistricting process that will re-draw state Senate and House of Delegates district lines. A Democratic-controlled advisory commission will submit a legislative redistricting proposal to Governor Martin O’Malley in December and the governor will submit his version to the General Assembly in January. Jacobs’ declaration was predicated on the potential redistricting of her state Senate district (34) to cut out Cecil County. Western Cecil County provided her with an overwhelming margin of support that was responsible for her re-election in 2010, after Democrat Art Helton beat her by a tiny margin in her Harford County home base. In an email, Jacobs said she advised fellow Senate Republicans that she felt she should not seek [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Jacobs Elected Senate GOP Leader; Pipkin Named Whip</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Senator Nancy Jacobs (R-34) has been elected to the top Republican leadership post in the Senate, just a few months after she was voted out of the party leadership. The surprise turnabout came after a week of turmoil among Senate Republicans and signals a shift to the right in the chamber’s GOP caucus. As part of the leadership shake-up Friday afternoon in Annapolis, another Upper Shore Senator E.J. Pipkin (R-36) was selected for the second-ranking Republican Whip post. The opening for top GOP leader in the state Senate came after the surprise resignation of Senator Allan Kittleman (R-Howard County) from the leadership post because he supports civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, which most of the 12-member Republican Senate caucus oppose. Kittleman has described himself as a “social moderate” on some of the hot button issues such as civil unions or same-sex marriage that will be coming up in this year’s General Assembly session. (A bill to legalize same-sex marriages was introduced this past week by the Democrats’ Senate Majority Leader, Rob Garagiola, of Montgomery County.) Jacobs is a former leader in the Concerned Women of America conservative group and has been a staunch conservative on social issues. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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