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The Republican candidate for Utah’s open congressional seat doesn’t have anything but a home page

The election is not even two months away; his opponents have fully operating websites, including on-the-issues pages.

When it came to his website, John Curtis, the Republican candidate for Utah’s open congressional seat, was inaccessible.

As late as 1:01 p.m. Sept. 10, nothing but a home page for the site was available. (On Aug. 27, I first sought out his issues page that political candidates usually have before learning that nothing except the landing page could be accessed.)

The websites of his opponents are a different story. Each of the pages from the websites of Kathie Allen and Jim Bennett, the Democratic and United Utah Party challengers, respectively, worked fine.

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Campaign staffer said that a “new and improved” website is coming. When asked for a timeline, he provided me a campaign email address. (I couldn’t contact him through his website, of course.) The campaign did not reply.


Nothing but a home page for John Curtis' campaign website can be accessed. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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