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		<title>Karl Fockler, State&#8217;s Atty Candidate, has $2 Million Debts, Wage Garnishment; Court Cites Conflicts in Brothers&#8217; Roles in Assault Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT Karl.H. Fockler, a candidate for Cecil County State’s Attorney in the June Republican primary, is under court-ordered garnishment of his salary as a prosecutor due to court judgements for millions of dollars in unpaid debts. If elected state’s attorney, he would get a major pay boost and would be in charge of managing a more than $2.4 million annual budget, virtually all of which is provided directly by county taxpayers. Multiple Circuit Court judgements, in Cecil County and other jurisdictions, total at least $1.8 million for unpaid debts against Fockler while another judgment against Karl Fockler and his wife, Suzanne, amounts to $473,014, bringing the total to over $2.3 million. Several other judgements or liens, including for unpaid state and federal taxes, were also filed but were subsequently listed as “satisfied,” or paid off, according to state court records. In addition, Karl Fockler and his brother, Edwin B. Fockler IV, an assistant public defender who is a candidate for a Cecil County Circuit Court seat in the June Republican primary election, recently insisted at a GOP candidates’ forum that their familial relationship would not be an ethics or conflict of interest issue if both were [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rivals for State&#8217;s Attorney, Register of Wills Face Sharp Questions; Judge Race Calmer at GOP Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 22:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were some tough questions when rival candidates in the June Republican primary for Cecil County State’s Attorney and the Register of Wills office squared off in a candidates’ forum sponsored by the Republican Club of Cecil County last week, putting some candidates on the defensive hot seat. In contrast, a panel of three candidates vying for a seat on the county’s Circuit Court was uncharacteristically mellow, given one candidate’s past record of attack-dog campaigns. Members of the audience at the event, held at the VFW hall in Chesapeake City, submitted written questions to the moderator, James Dubuque, vice president of the club, who then picked questions to pose to the candidates. STATE’S ATTORNEY: In the race for the open State’s Attorney seat, all three candidates currently work in the prosecutor’s office: Amanda Bessicks, a four-year veteran of the office who currently specializes in prosecuting cases involving crimes against children and domestic violence; Karl Fockler, deputy State’s Attorney since last year and a more than ten-year veteran of the office; and Kevin Urick, a prosecutor with over 12 years’ experience in Cecil County and previously a Baltimore City prosecutor for over 15 years. In opening statements, Bessicks said she would [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County&#8217;s Names-the-Same GOP Politics, Round 2: GOP Club Vs. Sammons&#8217; Soiree</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS We’ve seen it before in Cecil County politics: a disgruntled lone wolf creates a rump group with a name similar to a well-established organization to confuse the public and launch political attacks on the original group. So, a dissident online presence created in 2016 by conservative activist Vincent Sammons that had existed as a little-known Facebook page suddenly emerged in recent days as a “new” voice by attacking the original group whose name he co-opted. The Republican Club of Cecil County has functioned for many years as a local GOP organization that supported national, state and county Republican political candidates, held fundraising events and, until a few years ago, operated a Political Action Committee (PAC) registered with the state Board of Elections to make donations to candidates it endorsed. [The club&#8217;s &#8220;Republican Club of Cecil County PAC&#8221; operated from 2006 to 2012.] Sammons sought nomination as President of the Club in 2016, and received the support of a nominations committee, which he headed, sources said. But then other club members opposed his nomination and put forward the name of Alan McCarthy, who had won the general election for Cecil County Executive. The full club membership picked McCarthy as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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