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Hi, it's Doug. And before we begin, I just want to mention that since we produced this show, there's been another development in the first congressional district race.

Robert Gurkney of the Salt Lake Tribune has reported four people, including three elected officials, have accused Ava Lopez Chavez, a Salt Lake City Council member and Democratic candidate in this race of unwanted physical advances.

Lopez Chavez, through her attorney,

denies any wrongdoing that reporting was published after our conversations for this program.

Okay, back to the show.

If you go back just a few weeks, you would see a pretty familiar tension playing out in Utah's newly created first congressional district.

It's that typical fault line among the candidates and Democratic primaries between the party's moderate wing and its progressive left. And for the progressives,

state senator Nate Bluin seemed to be gaining momentum against the more moderate candidate. That's

the former Congressman Ben McAdams. This is all heading into this weekend state Democratic Party

convention. Bluyn had been building support in recent weeks. He was positioning himself as the candidate who could push the party in a more progressive direction. But then last week, the political news outlet, Punch Bull News, dropped a story about a series of online posts Bluyn had made between 2009 and 2015 when it was in his 20s.

The posts included language that was just awful.

K-U-E-R's Sean Higgins and Robert Gurkie of the Salt Lake Tribune have been following the story.

I remember I woke up that morning and just did my normal routine, like drop my daughter off at daycare, come back to the house, log on to my computer, check my email, maybe see like what's on social media real fast.

And the first I saw was Nate Bluin's apology.

And I'm reading what he's apologizing for, and I'm like, whoa, what is this?

So between 2009 and 2015, Nate Bluin had been on these mostly outdoor message boards.

And, you know, he said some things on there that were, I think, objectionable.

Utah State Senator Nate Bluin, a leading Democratic candidate for Utah's newly drawn first congressional district is apologizing, following new reporting on a series of vulgar posts on his old social media accounts.

Jokes about sexual assault, offensive language and slurs and claims of illicit behavior.

People were talking about the merits of using a GoPro, and he said, go buy a GoPro to film pornography with your underage

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