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Utah County’s new deputy clerk hired despite record of antisemitic, white supremacist trolling.
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Miss: Background Checks Let’s not talk about Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner or anyone elected despite a troubled background. Instead, we’ll focus on how we do not vet candidates for public sector jobs. Kai Schwemmer is emblematic of how it’s done. Schwemmer was hired by Utah County Clerk Aaron Davidson as a deputy clerk to help reach young voters.
That’s not odd in itself, since young voters tend to turn out at lower rates than older voters. But Davidson, long known for distrusting the voting system, chose “true conservative” influencer Schwemmer despite questions about antisemitic…
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