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		<title>A Modest Cecil County Proposal: Moore Could &#8220;Unaffiliate&#8221; from GOP, Briefly, to Bar Smipkin Pick of New County Council Member</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis/Commentary It was a bipartisan or multi-partisan vote that made Tari Moore Cecil County’s first-ever County Executive in the November election. But the choice of her replacement on the new County Council is now primarily in the hands of a highly partisan group—the local Republican Central Committee controlled by the Smipkin political organization that actively attacked Moore and sought to block her from winning her party’s nomination for executive. But there is a way out of this conundrum—a way that would require some political courage and “thinking outside the box”—to yield a new Council member who was not marching in lockstep to a Smipkin-ruled agenda for the next two years and instead would give the new County Executive a partner in progress, rather than a roadblock. And there are already several potential candidates that Moore could choose from who would never be picked by the Smipkin group but who could serve the county well if Moore were free to consider them. The new Charter form of government approved overwhelmingly by county voters in 2010 specifies the procedures for filling the vacancy in the District 2 seat currently held by Moore, which she will resign so as to be sworn into [&#8230;]]]></description>
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