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		<title>As Cecil County Commish Turn: Soap Opera Turns Serious in Brawl over Artesian, PSC, Taxpayer $</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A political brawl over Cecil County’s contract to sell most of its water and sewer plants to the private Artesian firm took a serious turn Tuesday, after Artesian threatened to invoke a contract clause placing the county at risk of costly legal action. The commissioners backed down late in the day and agreed to send a letter to state authorities supporting the Artesian sale&#8211; but not before the Commissioners got into a public shouting match Tuesday morning. It was a day of extraordinary bickering, even in the current Cecil County Commissioners political world that is routinely cast as a war between a three-member majority—consisting of Commissioner James Mullin (R-1), Diana Broomell (R-4) and Michael Dunn (R-3)—versus fellow Republicans Robert Hodge (5th) and Tari Moore (2nd) Dunn tried to attack Hodge for accepting several Artesian-linked political donations, but a Cecil Times initial review of state records showed that Broomell had comparable or greater donations from anti-Artesian advocates. Beneath the surface, the public political conflict had a serious private undertone, due to a letter sent by Artesian last Friday invoking a clause in the sales contract that required the county board to be supportive of the sale before the state Public Service [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commish Split on Pipkin Teacher Pensions Bill; &#8220;Patriots&#8221; Protest Pipkin Mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evolving political split among the Cecil County Commissioners came into play Tuesday when two commissioners tried to get the Board go on record against proposed state legislation, sponsored by state Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36), to transfer some financial responsibility for teacher pensions from the state to the counties. But a three-member majority of the all-Republican board refused to speak out against the Pipkin legislation. At the same time, members of the Cecil County Patriots—the local “tea party” organization that has often been at odds with the political machine led by Pipkin and his ally, Del. Michael D. Smigiel (R-36)—announced plans to testify and protest against the Pipkin pension bill at a hearing in Annapolis on Wednesday 3/2/11. For the second consecutive year, Pipkin has proposed legislation that would transfer responsibility for local teachers’ pensions from the state to local counties. But this year’s version (SB629) includes some mitigating language that would only transfer pension obligations to the counties insofar as the costs are above the median for the state. Pipkin has maintained that his newest proposal would not harm Eastern Shore counties in his district but would force more urbanized counties, such as Montgomery County, to pick up the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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