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		<title>Mesneak, Hornberger Backer and Fired County Employee, Belatedly Agrees to Recuse Himself from Board of Elections Decisions on County Exec Race</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faced with a vote to force his recusal from any Cecil County Board of Elections decisions on the County Executive race, Scott Mesneak&#8211; a county employee fired by County Executive Alan McCarthy and a highly visible backer of his challenger Danielle Hornberger in the Republican primary election&#8211; belatedly agreed Tuesday (5/26/2020) to step aside, after initially refusing to recuse himself from Board decisions in the contest. The in-person meeting of the county Board of Elections (BOE), which was also live streamed on the county website, took up Mesneak’s status as a special new agenda item on “conflict of interest,” following his appointment on 5/13/2020 to fill a GOP vacancy on the five-member bipartisan Board, which has a 3-2 Republican majority. Questions of an appearance of a conflict of interest emerged because of Mesneak’s dismissal by McCarthy from a top county job as the IT director, after many complaints from County Council members, and Mesneak’s highly visible recent activities supporting Hornberger&#8211; including photos on her campaign social media pages posing with her while putting up signs for her campaign. Mesneak was recently picked for the Board of Elections post unilaterally by Vincent Sammons, the chairman of the county’s Republican Central Committee, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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