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A candidate to lead the Utah Republican Party deletes blog posts copied without attribution

Chadwick Fairbanks III, one of four candidates seeking to lead the Utah Republican Party, deleted a series of posts from his campaign website Thursday that were copied without attribution from outside, conservative-oriented websites.

The posts, lifted in their entirety but with some minor alterations, were taken from the Washington Examiner, NewsWars and the Tenth Amendment Center and published under Fairbanks’ name at utahgopforchadwick.com. Their topics included the potential of Utah becoming a politically competitive or “purple” state, sanctuary cities and the national debt, respectively.

Fairbanks told The Salt Lake Tribune the posts were intended to include links back to their original sources, but his web manager had inappropriately taken liberties with the content.