Response to THE LETTER > Rexroad.com

I got the letter from Shawn Smallwood and his friends this afternoon. I read it. Thought about it. Read it again and thought some more. I posted it a while ago to see what sort of e-mails I got from people.

Normally I would not post this here. However, he sent it to the local newspapers and that tells me this is really a political issue more than a policy issue.

Dear Shawn and friends:

1) The implied charge in the letter to me is that I am controlling Charles Shaw. I don't think Charles Shaw even exists. Further, the reason the site is listed on my blog "right at the top" is because it is the most recent post. That is the way blogs work. The most recent comments are "right at the top".

2) You describe the comments on this blog as slanderous. That is kind of funny to me. First, please indicate what comments on that site meet the definition of slander. If you can show that they are false, then I am happy to give you space here on this blog to show that they meet the legal standard of slander. You would have to show they are not true.

You may be referring to the comment section of the blog. The comments may in fact be slanderous. Here is what is funny about that: Ms. Cedarblade took a comment from a previous version of rexroad.com -- not a post but a comment when we allowed open comments -- and distributed to every household in Woodland saying that it appeared on Matt Rexroad's own blog. This comment was not posted by me. It was a comment that discussed the appearance of Ms. Cedarblade, and the comment was deleted as soon as it was discovered.

Comments on a blog are one thing. The posts are very different.

The offer once again -- show something that is slanderous and I will give you free time right here on my blog to make your point. I also want to prevent someone from being the victim of slander.

3) You should not be writing a letter to the Board of Supervisors of Yolo County. Not at all. The Sheriff and District Attorney would surely be willing to look at this case if Brenda has the information to file a complaint. Sheriff Prieto and District Attorney Reisig are first class legal professionals who will surely act appropriately with the facts presented. I am confident that both of them will act ethically and according to the law.

4) I'm not going to disown the blog you mention any more than I am going to disown Woodland Journal because I disagree sometimes with Dino Gay; Roughstock Journal because Yolo Cowboy went crazy in New Jersey; The People's Vanguard of Davis because Greenwald has lost the other half of his marbles attending Davis City Council meetings, or Floating Foam because Krause likes video games or hangs out with a nut case that dances on film in local clothing stores (Super K).

I'm not responsible for the blog posts of another. If you don't like what Charles Shaw writes -- take it up with him. You could also start your own blog. I will link to it right here. Just like the others. You can even rip me on it.

I will continue to make the readers of my blog aware of information that impacts Woodland and Yolo County -- even blogs that make fun of me. I have linked to blogs all over.

5) Show some proof of harassment. What is it? You have assumed she has been harassed. This is a woman who has blamed everything that goes wrong at her store on the local homeless shelter, things that go wrong during elections on her opponents, things that go wrong in the last few months against Clark Pacific or their friends, things that go wrong a few years ago on Tom Stallard. You have provided no more evidence that she is being harassed than you have provided that aliens are going to come take us all away.

If you know she has truly been harassed then go to the Sheriff. Go to the Attorney General. The law is being broken. The Board of Supervisors sets policy for the county. If what you describe (or imply but don't describe at all) is true, then the current laws of the State of California provide you with a remedy. Go seek it.

The group of people signing this letter are well intentioned I am sure. However, you are not seeing the whole picture here. You are being used by someone that seeks your help now for her own personal goals.

Matt Rexroad

P.S. Thank you for reading.

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