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		<title>Rivals for State&#8217;s Attorney, Register of Wills Face Sharp Questions; Judge Race Calmer at GOP Forum</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2018/05/rivals-for-states-attorney-register-of-wills-face-sharp-questions-judge-race-calmer-at-gop-forum/</link>
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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>Smigiels File Double-Play, Names-the-Same Political Contests: Dad for Judge, Son for Dad&#8217;s Old Delegate Seat</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2018/02/smigiels-file-double-play-names-the-same-political-contests-dad-for-judge-son-for-dads-old-delegate-seat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Never let it be said that perennial candidate and three-time loser Michael D. Smigiel, Sr., doesn’t have any more political tricks up his sleeves, even if they aren’t the sleeves on a Cecil County judicial robe that he desperately wants to wear. Now he’s trying for a two-fer: a judicial seat for himself and his old District 36 state Delegate seat for his son and namesake, Michael D. Smigiel, Jr., a young filmmaker and video photographer. Daddy Smigiel lost his delegate seat in the Republican primary in 2014, when he didn’t even carry his home base of Cecil County in the four-county area covered by District 36. Daddy has also lost a previous run for a judicial seat and lost badly two years ago in a GOP primary challenge to incumbent Congressman Andy Harris (R-1st). Smigiel Sr. filed on Monday as a candidate for a Circuit Court judicial seat, running against incumbent judge Will Davis. Davis was appointed by Gov. Hogan to fill a vacancy on the local bench in 2016 and, under state law, must stand before the voters in this year’s elections for a 15-year term. (Davis was recommended for the court by an independent nominating [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Vote Tally Confirms Manlove Wins Cecil County School Board Seat; Sen. Van Hollen Gets Plums, Rep. Harris Lemons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William C. Manlove narrowly retained his seat on the Cecil County Board of Education, according to final vote counts, and he slightly widened his election night winning margin over challenger Kevin Emmerich. Although the contest was officially non-partisan, the closeness of the race indicated there was spillover from the national political climate. Manlove, a former County Commissioner and an Earleville Democrat, defeated Emmerich, a Republican, by a final vote of 18,756 (51 percent) for Manlove to 17,756 (48.3 percent) for his challenger. The election night tally was 17,832 (51 percent) for Manlove, to 16,892 (48.3 percent) for Emmerich. During two rounds of absentee ballot counts plus a provisional ballot tally, Manlove easily retained his frontrunner status and expanded his final vote margin of victory. The final tally was not unexpected, since the number of absentee ballots distributed before the election was about evenly divided between Democrats and Republican&#8211; unlike past years when local GOP backers waged active campaigns to sign up their voters for absentee ballots and got a much stronger absentee tally. &#8211; But overall, the School Board race was much closer than had been expected, as conservatives rallied around Emmerich, a Republican and member of his party’s Central [&#8230;]]]></description>
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