Cecil County Spending Project

01/03/12 of last month the Cecil County Commissioners voted unanimously to buy a farm for preservation purposes costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars — was this really what we want government to spend money on?  Cecil County Commissioners and County Executive candidates Tari Moore (who made the motion) and Diana Broomell (who seconded the motion) supported this as did Mullin, Dunn, and Hodge.  If our county had a regulatory and tax…

From the office of Congressman Andy Harris: Today, Rep. Andy Harris continued to voice his opposition to the largest toll hike in the state’s history. “Maryland families and job creators, particularly on the Eastern Shore, cannot afford another tax hike,” said Rep. Andy Harris. “Maryland doesn’t have a revenue problem – they simply want to raise tolls by hundreds of millions of dollars to fund transportation projects for the Washington,…

While reviewing information on the current Cecil County toll hikes at the Hatem Bridge I came across some interesting commentary from one of our elected officials on this issue a couple years ago.  You have to ask yourself whether these comments haven’t contributed to the sorry predicament we’re facing today. 

We all see our economy getting worse, unemployment rising, and the value of our money rapidly declining, not to mention the turmoil in the Middle East/northern Africa and the earthquake in Japan–which only adds to the problem. As a member of the Cecil County Republican Central Committee, I believe in limited and local government. I also believe that we must help ourselves out of the problems we create. There is…

During the 2010 election current County Commissioner Tari Moore, as a candidate for public office, had this to say about the county budget on her campaign website: These are very difficult economic times.  People have lost their jobs, businesses are closing, and families are making tough choices about what to eliminate from their budgets.  Government must do the same. [Emphasis added] We agree with her above statement, but we heard…