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South Carolina Senate 35 Race: Wading Through the Muddy Swamp Water on Election Day

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          The South Carolina Senate 35 Republican primary race that is currently in a run-off between Kershaw County businessman Mike Jones and Richland School District 2 board member Lindsay Agostini will be decided at the polls today, and the amount of muddy water voters have had to wade through from the mudslinger has made it difficult to decipher truth from fiction and smears from fact.           The Lindsay Agostini campaign released a press release on June 19 that claims Mike Jones was found guilty of misdemeanor and felony charges from more than a decade ago and "has no business running for any public office, much less the South Carolina Senate. His violent past is deeply troubling and makes him unelectable in November."            Mike Jones says the only thing he has ever been convicted of is a traffic violation and if those allegations were true, federal law would have prohibited him...