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		<title>Hornberger Secretly Installs O’Rourke on Ethics Panel—Despite County Council’s Rejection of Nomination Four Months Ago; Council Angry at End-Run</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2021/06/hornberger-secretly-installs-orourke-on-ethics-panel-despite-county-councils-rejection-of-her-nomination-four-months-ago-council-members-angry-at-end-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger secretly installed a former co-worker on the county Ethics Commission recently, despite the fact the County Council rejected her nomination to the panel in February. There was no notice given to the Council of the action, just a new inclusion of the woman’s name on the county website for the ethics panel and her apparent participation in a recent Zoom meeting. At the same time, there has been a veil of secrecy surrounding actions by the new ethics panel, with absent audio during the initial 4/20/2021 meeting, no posting on the county website of video from that meeting or a subsequent 6/3/2021 meeting, and failure to post minutes approved a week ago. (The County Council usually posts video of its meetings and approved minutes within 24 hours.) Council members also were not told that one of their favorite nominees to the ethics panel, Joe Graf, a former county teacher, had resigned the same day as the first meeting of the panel. That leaves a new vacancy on the five-member panel; so far Hornberger has not proposed or installed a new name for that slot. Due to the flawed handling of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ELECTION: Amanda Bessicks Wins State&#8217;s Attorney Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 04:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Bessicks, a first-time political candidate who promised to shake up the State’s Attorney’s office and make it more responsive to crime victims, won in a three-way contest in Tuesday’s Republican primary. There was no Democratic candidate in the race. Bessicks, 34, has been prosecuting cases involving crimes against children since January and was been a prosecutor for four years. She is a graduate of the University of Delaware and the Widener University Law School and served as a law clerk in the local Circuit Court before joining the State’s Attorney’s office. Despite being a newcomer to local politics, Bessicks drew strong support from victim advocates, especially the family of Terri Ann McCoy, who was brutally murdered in a Chesapeake City home invasion several years ago. She was also endorsed by the Republican Club of Cecil County. Other candidates in the race were 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. With all but two precincts reporting, Bessicks won 50.5 percent of the vote. Fockler drew support from31.9 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Upper Shore Senate: Sossi, Hershey File in Dist 36 GOP Race as $ Shows Local Support for Sossi, Hershey Fueled by Loans and PACs (and Issue Aimed at Smigiel?)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Del. Dick Sossi has filed his candidacy in the Dist. 36 state Senate race against newly appointed Sen. Steve Hershey, setting up a grudge match replay of the 2010 Republican primary for a Delegate seat in which Hershey beat veteran incumbent Sossi by 124 votes after a last-minute negative campaign flyer attack. This time, both candidates are well-funded—although by very different means—and Hershey seems to be taking out an issue insurance policy just in case Del. Michael Smigiel gets into the Senate contest. Sossi, who held a Delegate seat from Queen Anne’s County in the four-county 36th District from 2002 until he lost it in late 2010, has continued to make the rounds of community events and issue meetings in the area for the past several years as a district representative for US Rep. Andy Harris (R-1). He resigned that post in late December and formally filed as a candidate on 1/23/14, although he had made no secret of his plans since last summer and for months has been traveling the district in a brightly decorated van that proclaims “Sossi for Senate.” Hershey was appointed by Governor Martin O’Malley to fill the vacant Senate seat in the district after [&#8230;]]]></description>
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