h/t to Glen Warchol at Salt Lake Crawler for this doozy, “Chaffetz to the rescue.”
Apparently Utah’s favorite wastebuster, Jason Chaffetz, the thrifty congressman from District 3, recently returned from a “rescue” trip to Antigua where he and a colleague representative from New York flew to bail out four American tourists who were involved in fisticuffs with an Antiguan police officer.
The congressmen reportedly thought the 30-day jail penalty the tourists were facing was too stiff.
Warchol hits the ball out of the park on this one:
Excuse me, but the cruise-ship buccaneers admitted they had roughed up a police officer. If a few Antiguans tried that in the Third Congressional District, Chaffetz would toss them in a “tent city.”
Call me guilty of picking and choosing battles with Chaffetz, but here’s the facts: There’s hundreds, if not thousands of minions going around applauding Chaffetz for everything he does, locally right here with the Independence Caucus. Chaffetz is a hero of the movement, but he’s consistently making a caricature out of himself.
Give me Rob Bishop, a congressman who actually works pretty well for his constituents, over a Chaffetz clone six days a week and twice on Sunday.
THAT’s ironic! It was stated Saturday morning at a patriotic breakfast that I attended that Chaffetz had been asked to do some heroic thing that could not be talked about at that point, and thus he could not be there to speak as scheduled. Another irony–fortunately, Mike Lee (son of former BYU President Rex Lee) spoke to us about the Constitution.
If the facts are as you state above, this was a pretty elaborate stunt!