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Jason Chaffetz for Congress
Filed Under Constitution, Elections, Government, Mitt Romney, Politics, Ronald Reagan
As a Utah State delegate, I have spent many hours studying the issues raised by the three major candidates for Congress in my home district. It may come at the 11th hour, but I am now confident in one candidate: Jason Chaffetz. Please let me list some of the reasons I came to this decision.
Chris Cannon is the incumbent. He has been in office for about 15 years. He has done some good things in Congress, but he has also done some really unexplainable things.
His support of President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” Act left many of us in Utah wondering what he was thinking, especially after Utah moved to exempt itself from the regulations requirements. It was not a popular piece of legislation here.
Chris faced strong criticism, even from me personally, for his position favoring in-state tuition for children of illegal aliens in Utah’s colleges and Universities. Cannon’s position was that the children didn’t commit the crime of coming here illegally. Why should they be punished for their parents transgressions? Doug Wright, a local talk show host, was a loud voice in support of Cannon’s position.
My friend Chris Herrod, a Utah State lawmaker, explained that giving the children of illegal aliens the benefit of in-state tuition rates was wrong. Suppose a man embezzles a million dollars from the company he works for, and puts the money in a trust account for his children. Have the children done anything wrong? No, but lawfully they have no right to enjoy that money. The children of illegal aliens are not being punished. We need to stop feeling guilty for withholding privileges from those who do not have claim to them.
David Leavitt is the other candidate. He is the brother of former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, now head of the EPA. David was appointed Juab County Prosecutor a few years ago. It can be argued that the recent events in Texas are a direct result of Leavitt’s successful prosecution of polygamist Tom Green for marrying underage girls.
Leavitt comes across as the collected statesman. Though he relies on examples of the statesmanship of the Founding Fathers, he doesn’t seem to have the same passion they obviously had. He is very earnest in his feelings for our country, but he says he wants to create consensus without compromise. He naively believes that the liberals in Congress and elsewhere can be brought in with expressions of compassion and logic. He doesn’t seem to understand that logic is foreign to liberals. In fact, some liberals will eschew logic outright as a creation of western (read “white”) civilization. You cannot convince someone of an absolute truth, when they don’t even believe that absolute truth exists.
We at the Conservative Front are proud to endorse Jason Chaffetz for Congress in Utah’s 3rd District. Jason has the foundation, the correct understanding of First Principles, the statesmanship and the passion to bring new life to the House of Representatives. He is not afraid to ruffle a few feathers, even of senior republican leaders like Senator Orrin Hatch or Utah Governor John Hunstman.
That kind of courage is what is sorely lacking in the Republican party in Washington D.C. right now. That lack may well lose the House, the Senate, and the Presidency for the Republicans for many years to come. They have proven that they were more interested in staying elected, so they began pandering to the welfare voters and the government dependents. They lost their focus, and they lost the trust of the American people.
Jason Chaffetz is a breath of fresh air. His passion and courage are desperately needed in Washington D.C. He will be a leader in the mold of Mitt Romney or Ronald Reagan. Please join us in supporting Jason Chaffetz for Congress.
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Check out this website: http://www.thetruthaboutjason.blogspot.com
Help us uncover Jason’s lie and help teach the people that he will be a terrible congressman and a disgrace to the state of Utah.
Thanks for your help.
Hmmm…
An anonymous poster…decrying Jason’s “lie”…doesn’t tell us what it is…and then tries to get us to go to a web page that doesn’t exist.
I see Chris Cannon is already hard at work!
Anyone present on Saturday May 10 clearly saw that Jason Chaffetz was the best candidate for congress! He was the most clear with his issues. I hope when people vote on June 24 they will do their research and vote for Jason Chaffetz.
When you are talking about “courage” and “a breath of fresh air” - is that the courage that it takes to scream profanities at young teenagers? Is it the breath of fresh air you get when your heart is beating fast after a Chaffetz speech and because of your hatred toward Cannon you throw things at kids?
People lost site of conservatism on Saturday. Their hatred toward Cannon blinded them to the dishonesty of Chaffetz. The dishonesty he used when he repeatedly misquoted Leavitt and handed out a flier at the convention with a misquote.
What will it take for people to wake up and realize the course we are headed on. Leavitt was the ONLY real GOOD choice on Saturday and the people spoke - they don’t want reason and sensible solutions, they want a riot. They want someone who’ll shake their fist in the air and rouse them to a frenzy so that they lose their human decency.
Now before you go saying that convention rules were broken and that is why the Chaffetz supporters were justified in resorting to barbaric behavior, let me tell you the convention rules. The convention rules state that signs are not to be posted in the ballot area. Leavitt supporters came in HOLDING signs for Cannon and NEVER posted them anywhere, least of all the ballot area. The reason they were asked to leave the floor was not because rules were being broken. It was because the booing, swearing and throwing objects was getting to the point that they were worried the children (ages 12-18) were going to get hurt.
Furthermore, there are those who accuse Leavitt and Cannon of campaigning on the floor. They were not campaigning anymore than Chaffetz was. Remember he was also on the floor doing the same things - shaking people’s hands. But, that aside, there is a small window of time that when one delegate has lost he can then endorse another delegate. This has always been the case for political races.
That is what Leavitt was doing. And why did he endorse Cannon? Because of Jason’s insistence on misquoting what Leavitt said and what his stand was on issues - namely immigration. Leavitt told Jason the week before that if he didn’t stop misquoting him, he would not endorse him at the convention.
No one wants to look at that, though. Everyone just wants to get so worked up in such a frenzy against Cannon that they don’t see the whole picture. Everyone just listens to rumor or sees what they want to see. If we only use our emotions to make our vote, then we will get people who can manipulate us into disaster.
I guess Utahns have what is called “Reality Show” syndrome. They want the “Put You in Your Place” attitude not the “Let’s talk reasonably and figure out a good solution for everyone” attitude.
It is possible to get someone worse than Cannon. Just watch and see.
Boy, It’s amazing how much two people who were ostensibly at the same event can see things so entirely differently.
First of all, I never scream profanities at anyone at anytime, and I did not yell or scream anything at anyone at the convention, so your criticisms are misdirected.
Second, I know that not all those who were yelling at Leavitt’s people at the convention were Jason’s supporters. And frankly, you are engaging in some very poor logic. While it may be true that some of Jason’s supporters were among those yelling, it does not follow that they were yelling because they support Jason.
Third, convention rules were broken, regardless of your attempt to minimize the infraction. It was very plainly posted at every entrance to the convention floor “Delegates Only.” The means no candidates, no campaigners, no signs, and no monkey business. I believed Mr. Leavitt to be a decent fellow, but when I saw the shenanigans he pulled with Chris Cannon, he lost almost all the respect he had earned from me. I also think it was very cynical to use those kids the way he did.
I never saw Jason on the floor; he stood in the entryway, and did not appear there until after Leavitt and Cannon had already pulled their stunt. Jason never descended onto the floor proper.
Leavitt’s campaigners, on the other hand, flouted the “delegates only” rule, they ignored repeated requests from the chairman to leave the floor, as well as repeated requests to remove their signs.
Lastly, you have repeatedly mentioned some misquote of David Leavitt by Jason, but you have not one time actually repeated either the quote or the misquote, so you’ll understand if I don’t give you any credit for it.
To sum up, you have engaged in false accusation, hasty generalization, half-truth, and outright falsehoods. And your utter mischaracterization of the incidents of Saturday leaves me wondering if you were even there. Let me remind you that I was; I was seated right in the middle of the floor, with a good view of the entire arena.
If your desire was to “talk reasonably,” you are off to a very poor start. Would you like to engage in reasonable discussion? Jason Chaffetz has expressed his willingness to answer any questions of anyone anytime. Please email him at jason at chaffetz dot com.
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Check it out and help us keep Jason from getting into office.
To Celeste - I was also at the convention and while the Leavitt campaign workers were booed, I heard no one uttering any profanities. Please don’t mis-represent the facts here. You twisted things around in your post so much that I feel compelled to correct you point by point.
First of all, it’s “lost sight” not “lost site.” It’s difficult for me to take anyone seriously on facts who can’t spell a word correctly.
What you say was a mis-quote of Leavitt, was actually word for word what Leavitt said. As a former Leavitt supporter, I was there when he said it. Now if you can show me where he said something different than what Jason quoted in his flyer then we have a real problem because it indicates to me that Leavitt was flip-flopping on his position. Well I guess now it’s a bit of a moot point anyway…
It wasn’t just Chaffetz supporters who were upset at Leavitt and Cannon. As I previously mentioned, I WAS a Leavitt supporter and when I saw what he caused to have happen on the convention floor, I was disgusted and my eyes were opened to what a snake in the grass he really is. I regret that I wasted any of my time on his campaign and I’m certainly glad he is no longer in the running. We would have been replacing one snake for another.
You refer to all the offenders as teens between the ages of 12-18. Where do you get your information? Like I said, I WAS a Leavitt supporter and I knew many who were carrying the Cannon signs, including Leavitt’s campaign manager who walked right in front of me with a defiant look on his face. Most of those “young teens” were between the ages of 18-26.
You are also wrong about why the Leavitt campaign workers were asked to leave the convention floor. Just as they were starting to make their entrance BEFORE any of the delegates saw them and started booing them, Stan Lockhart announced from the podium that no campaign signs were allowed on the convention floor. Leavitt’s campaign workers stopped their entry at that point but were then motioned by the adults to continue in in spite of Stan’s admonition. Was what they did against convention rules? Let’s not quibble over the meaning of the word “post.” Let’s talk about intent instead. When you go to vote at a polling place two things are forbidden within 500 feet where voting is taking place - campaign signs, and candidates in the act of campaigning. Hmmm, there must be a valid reason for this rule. If it is applicable at the locations where the general citizenry votes, then such a rule must also be applicable at conventions where voting is also taking place. This is so that people cannot be bullied, cajoled or swayed in anyway to voting for someone just because they happen to be the last name they saw or heard. While Leavitt sent his minions to do his bidding on the convention floor, there was actual voting taking place. Delegates were still in the act of punching their cards, a clear violation of the rules. Now whether you want to say that putting tape on a sign and hanging it inside the convention floor area on a wall or hanging from a ceiling (what I ascertain is your interpretation of “posting”) is more obtrusive than say, someone taking signs in their hand, waving them around while walking right in front of the voting delegates, then I have to say that it would be difficult for anyone to take you or Stan Lockhart, or David Leavitt or anyone who asserts such a position, seriously.
Actually, I never saw Chaffetz on the convention floor DURING voting, so if he was, he certainly wasn’t doing it to draw attention to himself the way Cannon and Leavitt were when they walked out arm in arm. I also noticed that When Mike Ridgeway was making his case and getting booed (from the side mike, not while he was giving his candidate speech), Stan Lockhart stood silent and assented to the boos, but when the delegates booed Leavitt and Cannon, he said, “Come on, let’s be nice.” Again it’s difficult to take someone seriously who chooses not to be fair about things across the board.
Leavitt had at one time offered to endorse Chaffetz and then threatened to withdraw that pledge over alleged misquotes? I never heard that before. Where do you get that information? I’d be very curious to know the source of that, because it’s the first I’ve ever heard of it.
You say we should not be drawn into this campaign from an emotional standpoint. I agree. So does Jason which is why he sticks to the issues and does not engage in personal attacks. I also believe we should be adhering to the truth and sticking to the facts. You have stretched them to such a degree that I find it difficult to take anything you say seriously. But you are entitled to your opinion. Please let us know in the future when you can back up what you say, or when you are merely expressing your opinion.
I see a post that suggests referring to “the truth about Jason”. It should actually read “the anonymous, vague accusations, rumors, and inuendos about Jason”. The more I talk to or read posts from people who are speaking against Jason, the more I hear the same regurgitated phrases that seem to be coming from the campaigns of his opponent or his previous opponents that were eliminated at convention. Jason speaks to issues. The debate over the candidates should be all about issues and each of us should decide who can best represent our own position on the issues. It is human nature to listen to and enjoy gossip . . . whether founded or not. Listen to facts.
The more I learn about Jason Chaffetz, the more I am attracted to his candidacy.
His position on immigration is exactly what we need in this county if we are to re-establish the rule of law and regain control over our borders.
This is not only an economic issue, it is a national security issue as well.
Please consider supporting the candidacy of Mr. Chaffetz as he runs for the US Congress from the 3rd district in Utah.