Politics & Government
Iowa GOP Candidate's Site Hacked? Replaced With Lady Gaga
Cedar Falls GOP candidate Walt Rogers is looking into whether his campaign web site was hacked. Google takes searchers not to his site, but to Lady Gaga's.
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In less than 24 hours, voters will head to the polls, but if they're trying to learn about local Iowa House Republican candidate Rep. Walt Rogers, Googling will give them more information about Lady Gaga and her "Born This Way Ball" tour.
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On Monday morning, attempting to visit Roger's campaign website via Google took users to a Lady Gaga tour schedule instead of Roger's homepage. Visiting the link directly still sends voters to the correct site: http://www.smallersmarter.org
"We are working on that. We are trying to figure out if it was hacked," Rogers said. "We found out about it yesterday."
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A quick check of other Black Hawk County candidate sites, both Democrats and Republicans, showed no problems.
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