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		<title>Jackie Gregory Wins Split Vote for Cecil County Council President; Meffley Wins VEEP Slot after Gregory Push for Culberson Fails</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS It was the first meeting of the new Cecil County Council, with a 3-2 majority of close political allies of County Executive Danielle Hornberger elected in November, but things didn’t exactly go to plan at the 12/6/2022 worksession. Long moments of silence, accompanied by overheard stage whispers and visible head shakes, thwarted Jackie Gregory’s push to assert full control of the Council by getting herself elected President and ally Donna Culberson as vice president. (Gregory won, Culberson didn’t.) Gregory was the vice president of the Council and a core advocate during the summer Republican primary campaign of a “slate” of candidates seeking to unseat two fellow GOP incumbents: Bill Coutz in District 2 and Al Miller in District 3. Coutz lost to Rebecca Hamilton in the primary while Miller survived vicious attacks, in glossy flyers financed in part by US Rep. Andy Harris (R-1) and Del. Kevin Hornberger (R-35), the spouse of the County Executive. Gregory, whose picture and quotes were displayed on some of the attack flyers, is currently employed as a district aide to Harris and Danielle Hornberger previously held the same job for Harris. After the elections, with a Hornberger-allied majority, it was a foregone [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Former County Council President Joyce Bowlsbey Files Write-in Challenge to new Nominee Hamilton in Dist. 2;  “Experience Matters” Motto for General Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 22:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joyce Bowlsbey, the former President of the Cecil County Council and a longtime leader in many county civic organizations, has filed as a write-in candidate in the November general election, seeking to reclaim her District 2 Council seat that she held for six years. She is opposing political newcomer Rebecca Hamilton, who won the recent Republican primary nomination for the seat as part of a “slate” of candidates financed largely by Del. Kevin Hornberger, the spouse of county executive Danielle Hornberger. Bowlsbey joins another write-in candidate, Phyllis Kilby, an eight-year veteran of the Cecil County Board of Commissioners and a leader in farm and civic groups. Kilby is running in November for a County Council seat now held by Donna Culberson (R-4), who was appointed to her seat last year and recently won the Republican nomination for the general election on the same Hornberger-backed “slate.” Both Bowlsbey and Kilby face an uphill fight, since their names will not appear on the printed ballot presented to voters. Instead, they will have to convince voters to write-in their names on the correct lines for the District 2 and District 4 Council races. By filing their write-in candidacies with the Board of Election, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kilby Files as Write-in Rival to Culberson in Cecil Co Council Race; Ex-Co Commissioner Challenges Hornberger “Mismanagement”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phyllis Kilby, an eight-year veteran of the Cecil County Board of Commissioners and a leader in farm and civic groups, has filed with the Board of Elections (BOE) as a write-in candidate for the County Council seat now held by Donna Culberson (R-4), who was appointed to her seat last year and recently won the Republican nomination for the November general election. Kilby faces an uphill fight, since her name will not appear on the printed ballot presented to voters. Instead, she will have to convince voters to write-in her name on the correct line for the District 4 Council race. By filing her write-in candidacy with the BOE, with required financial disclosures and campaign committee documentation, her write-in votes will be counted by the Board of Elections. Write-in votes for people who have not gone through the paperwork hoops of the BOE are not counted. Kilby ran and won two terms for Commissioner as a Democrat, at a time when the Democrats held a majority party registration in the county, but Republicans currently hold a registration majority. Now, she is running as an “unaffiliated” or independent candidate, because, “I feel the problems facing our county require us all to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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