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		<title>BULLETIN: Queen Anne&#8217;s County GOP Panel Backs Del. Smigiel for Dist. 36 Senate Seat; Tied with Del. Hershey in Four County Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 03:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A majority of the Queen Anne’s County Republican Central Committee voted Tuesday night to endorse Del. Michael Smigiel for the vacant Dist. 36 state Senate seat, creating a tie between Smigiel and Del. Steve Hershey among the four counties in the district. Hershey has won the endorsements of the Kent and Caroline counties’ local GOP committees while Smigiel had previously won the support of the Cecil County panel. It is possible, but seemingly unlikely, that Kent or Caroline could hold a re-vote before the September 10 deadline to submit a name or names to Gov. Martin O’Malley. So if the tie vote among the four counties covered by the district persists, the governor, a Democrat, will decide who gets the seat for the year and a half remaining on the term of E.J. Pipkin, who resigned the seat several weeks ago. The inferno intensity of the battle for the appointment to the Senate seat would seem to make it unlikely that state Republican party officials would be able to mediate the situation so as to avoid handing such an important decision— who will get the political advantage of incumbency going into the 2014 elections when the seat will be at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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