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		<title>Smigiel Launches Cecil County Judge Campaign with Legal Flub: Cribbing Official State Court Seal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report Delegate Michael Smigiel (R-36) has launched his long-anticipated campaign for a Cecil County Circuit Court judgeship with a major legal flub: a fundraising appeal that misappropriated the official seal of a state judicial agency. Documents obtained by The Cecil Times show that Smigiel pitched his candidacy—which had not yet been listed as officially filed in the state Board of Elections database as of Monday—with a plea for campaign donations under the official seal of the state Administrative Office of the Courts. After some recipients of his letter questioned the propriety of its content, Smigiel had to issue an apology both to the recipients and the state court office. The misappropriation of the state courts’ official seal by Smigiel is ironic, since he railed loudly and at length against the citizens’ group, “Friends of Charter,” which had used the Cecil County seal—which was not copyrighted at the time—on literature supporting adoption of a charter form of government on the 2010 ballot. Smigiel and his political compadre, Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36), strongly opposed a shift to charter government in the county but voters rejected their position and approved charter by an overwhelming margin. Smigiel’s botched launch to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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