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		<title>Cecil County Republican Drama: Moving the Money Around and Around</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Our ongoing local political soap opera, centered on the crowded field of warring factions seeking seats on the Cecil County Republican Central Committee,  may have many observers wondering what all the fuss is about. But when you drill deeply into state campaign finance reports, it becomes clear that the fuss is about more than ideology, alliances, and political control. It&#8217;s also about money and who gets to decide how, and to whom, to dole out Republican campaign funds.   At stake in the Sept. 14 Republican primary is not just which faction gets control of the party&#8217;s official arm in Cecil County, the  nine-seat Central Committee, but who  will control the Committee&#8217;s bank account.  In the most recent filings with the State Board of Elections, the county&#8217;s GOP Central Committee had $17,715 cash in the bank, which the committee can contribute to local Republican candidates for their campaigns, as well as fund-raise on behalf of GOP candidates.  While  that might not seem like a lot of money, it becomes more significant in the context of a new and  evolving strategy by one faction&#8211; which is tied to Del. Michael Smigiel (R-36) and Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36)&#8211; of moving Republican money around within various new entities, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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