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		<title>Cecil County Commissioners Oust Vernon Thompson, Economic Development Chief; Smipkins Get Even for Political Independence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners voted in secret session Tuesday to oust Vernon Thompson, a former senior state economic development official, as the county’s Director of Economic Development, according to informed sources. Thompson confirmed that “I will be leaving Cecil County as of September 23 by mutual agreement with the county commissioners.” The move had been widely expected at the beginning of the year, when a new majority of the Board of Commissioners emerged after last year’s elections, but the delay in dropping the guillotine until now had led some county observers to think that Thompson might survive after all. But in recent weeks, there were signs that the new majority of the commissioners was anxious to consolidate control over the department and at least some of them wanted to exert political payback against Thompson on behalf of their state political mentors, who deemed him too independent. The ouster of Thompson was greeted with shock and sadness Tuesday by some local leaders who had worked closely with him on economic development issues. Furthermore, the sudden move was not discussed with the county’s Economic Development Commission leadership in advance. “I think it’s a gigantic loss for Cecil County,” Joyce Bowlsbey, a member [&#8230;]]]></description>
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