Overview
- Punchbowl News identified decade-old forum posts Wednesday, and hours later Nate Blouin apologized and called his past comments vulgar and shameful.
- The posts from 2009 to 2015 included a suggestion to film porn with an underage sister, slurs, jokes about sexual assault, and a claim he defecated in a Latter-day Saint church parking lot.
- Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said Blouin should not continue in office or seek a seat in Congress, calling the remarks incompatible with public service standards.
- Utah’s Democratic legislative minority caucuses condemned the language as beyond unacceptable, saying such comments harm survivors and undermine trust in government.
- Blouin remains on the June 23 primary ballot after qualifying by signatures, with the April 24–25 party convention looming in a district centered on heavily Latter-day Saint Salt Lake County that Democrats view as a key pickup chance.