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 web posted September 21, 2007 WEBNEWS – Republican District 25 Senate run-off candidate Bill Hixon has reportedly responded to a letter from front runner Shane Massey who asked Mr. Hixon to sign on to an agreement to run a clean campaign over the next two weeks. According to a SCHotLine Press Release, Mr. Hixon accused Mr. Massey of being the one associated with running false attack ads against him. In his open letter to Mr. Massey, Mr. Hixon is reported to have said, “Will you promise the voters that all negative attacks against Bill Hixon will cease? Will you instruct those PACs and websites which are supporting you to end their negative attacks on your behalf?” However, along with the letter came an attack on EdgefieldDaily.com. EdgefieldDaily.com received an email notification of the letter with the subject line “Are you in the tank or what you little pipsqueak redneck.. News? Journalist? Laughable. You are white trash plain and simple.” It came from the email address theaikenhornet@gmail.com - EdgefieldDaily.com has traced the internet Service Provider (ISP) of the sender and may reveal their identity in an upcoming report. Feel free to send him an email with your thoughts on the matter. Please copy us in on your email so some can be listed in the Wandering Minds. A post entered on the website (which has been altered after our first saving the original post) reads in part, “The editor of the www.edgefielddaily.com told me that he “has been working with” and “in contact with” SCRG a couple of times a week for the past two months.” The poster, no doubt a Hixon supporter, is a liar. EdgefieldDaily.com reported the attack ad against Mr. Hixon and never knew the group existed until receiving the mailer quoting our factual Nov. 2006 report on Mr. Hixon’s property being ridiculously under assessed while his neighbor’s property values increased dramatically. We immediately notified Mr. Hixon of the attack ad. EdgefieldDaily.com also shut down a false story, just before the election, that claimed EdgefieldDaily.com reported Mr. Hixon was associated with a fraud in the Merriwether community by another website and forced the website to remove the faked story. If EdgefieldDaily.com was biased we could have waited to act until after the election and let the false story spread, thereby possibly affecting the election results. A few hundred votes would have placed Mr. Hixon out of the run-off. Mr. Hixon also attacked EdgefieldDaily.com’s report in a mailer to voters claiming our report on his property values was “false” and confirmed the mailer referred to our report. We then produced the actual information provided by the Edgefield County Tax Assessor’s Office to support our story. It has never been refuted or challenged by Mr. Hixon since. After our report of Mr. Hixon’s attack on EdgefieldDaily.com, signs in the Merriwether area near Mr. Hixon’s home reading “Read EdgefieldDaily.com” were vandalized with someone taking a red marker scratching out the “Read” and replacing it with the expletive “F- - K” This upset many Merriwether parents, as the signs were located on the main avenue to the Merriwether Middle and Elementary Schools. EdgefieldDaily.com removed the offending signs after being notified by parents of the children who saw the graffiti. Mr. Hixon has also associated our reports with the Shane Massey campaign due to Mr. Massey advertising on EdgefieldDaily.com. The ad placed on our website was sought by a member of the voting public who was directed to pay for the ad through Mr. Massey’s campaign for legal purposes. We were never contact by the Massey campaign for the purpose of a political ad. EdgefieldDaily.com has never refused political ads from any candidate in any election cycle and has published ads from opposing candidates at the same time. We do not endorse candidates for elective office and will only respond if a candidate attacks, refers, or mentions EdgefieldDaily.com inaccurately. For all
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