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		<title>Dist. 36 State Delegate Seat Up for Grabs as Caroline County Candidate Falls Victim to Map Murk</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/10/open-dist-36-state-delegate-seat-up-for-grabs-as-caroline-county-candidate-falls-victim-to-map-murk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map…” (With apologies to ‘Fiddler on the Roof’) Caroline County residents thought they had a golden opportunity to have their own “resident” Delegate in the General Assembly, after a nearly 20-year hiatus, with revised district line maps that expand the county’s voting share in the four-county 36th legislative district. But now their hopes have been dashed by the same boundary maps and rules for filling a vacant Delegate seat. “We got screwed by the maps,” said one frustrated Caroline County Republican. “We thought the new maps would help us, but now we find we have to go by the old maps for now.” At issue is the fact that the new boundary lines do not officially take effect until after the 2014 election. So that means a candidate for appointment to the seat vacated officially this week by Del. Steve Hershey, of Queen Anne’s County, must be a resident of the district &#8212; which includes Cecil County&#8211; as its boundaries are now drawn. Leading Caroline County Republicans had united behind the candidacy of Jeff Ghrist, a member of the Caroline County Board of Commissioners. But, as it turns out, Ghrist lives in the newly expanded [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>House Redistricting: Cecil County Shifts Districts, Rudolph Gains Friendlier Turf, James Departs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Del. David Rudolph (D-34B) eked out a tiny margin of victory in a three-way general election contest last year, his supporters breathed a sigh of relief and told themselves it wouldn’t happen again: “There’s always redistricting,” they hoped. Rudolph’s redistricting prayers seem to have been answered in the new maps proposed by a Democratic-controlled gubernatorial commission late Friday. His all-Cecil County district has been renumbered as District 35A and redrawn to bypass some more heavily GOP areas in the western section of the county while moving eastward into more friendly Democratic areas. At the same time, Cecil countians will be saying goodbye to a longtime Delegate, Mary-Dulany James (D-34A) of Havre de Grace, whose district was redrawn to omit a small section of Cecil she represented for years. Instead, there will be a new Cecil-Harford district 35B. And southern Cecil County will see its clout diminished in a re-drawn 36th District, where Caroline County gains a significantly larger share of the turf. State Planning Department data show the new all-Cecil House District 35A has a voting age (18 and over) population of 32,021. In the new map, 6.2 percent of the voting age population is African-American. (Rudolph’s old district [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R) Explores Congress Run Against Dutch Ruppersberger (D); Uphill Fight but She Has a Unique 2012 Shot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R-Cecil/Harford) said Monday she has formed an “exploratory committee” to consider a run for Congress and the 2nd District seat now held by Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger. If she does run, it would be a very tough uphill fight but the state and national political dynamics of 2012 suggest it would not be an impossible task. With a little more than a month before the state’s candidate filing deadline, she will have to evaluate her chances quickly and decide once and for all if she will run. And as soon as she starts to rake in all but minimal financial support, she will have to fish or cut bait. Under Federal Election Commission rules, an exploratory committee can raise and spend money for “testing the waters” activities such as polling but once $5,000 is raised and spent for “campaign” activities, the potential candidate is considered an actual candidate and must file an official statement of candidacy with the FEC. On her Facebook wall, Jacobs announced her move and commented, “I’m tired of the excuses coming from Washington and believe it’s time to challenge the Beltway status quo. Congress exists to serve the people and they are failing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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