comMITTed to Romney!

On the face of it, the idea of putting illegal aliens in tent cities while they await deportation, seems mean spirited, but I honestly believe Jason Chaffetz is acknowledging reality. Number one, their presence here is a national security issue for the simple reason that we don’t know the backgrounds of the people crossing our borders and for what I hope is the obvious fact that we must enforce the rule of law or else return to the law of the jungle where only the strong survive. Number two, Jason realizes that the country is going broke, witness the carnage on Wall Street from the week just past. We can’t afford to build gold-plated jails for people who are only going to be here for a short time. Unless we start to run this country the same way most Americans run their households, in other words, take care of the basics, protect your families, work hard and balance your budget, while saving for the future, we as a nation will eventually suffer the same fate as the irresponsible Wall St. gamblers. Broke, busted, belly up.

~~John Cronin~~

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700259998,00.html

PROVO—If special-interest groups want to talk about his suggestion to hold illegal immigrants in tent cities, Jason Chaffetz said Thursday they should talk to him and stop sending press releases.
The Japanese American Citizens League is the latest group to criticize Chaffetz, the Republican with a prohibitive lead in the race to win Utah’s 3rd District seat in Congress.

“Mr. Chaffetz has fumbled the ball on the important issue of immigration and turned it into an engine of fear towards immigrants,” JACL National Executive Director Floyd Mori wrote in a press release issued Wednesday.

Chaffetz said the JACL has not contacted him and didn’t even send the press release to him.

“They haven’t even tried to talk to me,” Chaffetz said. “I’d be happy to sit down and explain my position on immigration. My immediate reaction is that press release is based on bogus lies intended to inflame media coverage.”

The Western Governors Association has proposed construction of regional correctional facilities to hold immigrants convicted of crimes. Chaffetz has suggested tent cities surrounded by barbed wire instead, as a way to cut costs.

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Jason Chaffetz continues to burnish his conservative credentials as he picks up the endorsement of another rising star in the Republican Party, Mitt Romney.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/276063/17/

Joe Pyrah - Daily Herald

With a lengthening parade of endorsements by well known Republicans — now including Mitt Romney — Jason Chaffetz, the GOP candidate for Utah’s Third District seat in Congress, may not need the backing of incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon.

On Thursday the Herald learned that Romney plans to endorse Chaffetz next week, joining Utah Sens. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch, and Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who have already endorsed him.

Cannon, meanwhile, remains cool to his former rival. In a written statement Thursday, Cannon referred to “questions” about Chaffetz from residents of his district, and said he will seek a meeting with him during Congress’s summer recess, which has just begun.

“A number of residents of the 3rd District have asked me questions about issues that I need to ask Jason prior to an endorsement. I view this as part of my obligation as their representative,” Cannon said.

Chaffetz defeated Cannon by 20 points in the party’s June 24 primary.
Utah, especially the 3rd District, adores Romney. He won the presidential primary here with nearly 90 percent of the vote. Provo’s 84604 ZIP code was the top grossing fundraising area in the country for his campaign, with Chaffetz’s ZIP code in Alpine ranking ninth.

“Utah certainly claims Romney as a native son,” said Kirk Jowers of the Hinckley Institute of Politics.

“An endorsement by Romney is pure gold in Utah. No one has ever gotten 90 percent, really, in any contest before.”

Chaffetz is running against Democrat Bennion Spencer and Constitutionalist Jim Noorlander in November’s general election.

Spencer doesn’t mind that Romney has endorsed his opponent. He likes the former Massachusetts governor. “His position that Washington is broken is true,” Spencer said.

For his part, Spencer has the endorsement of former KSL anchor and Utah mainstay Dick Nourse. “It’s a non-partisan name, and it’s a name people trust,” he said.

Spencer said people are looking past simple partisan politics and are focusing on issues such as energy dependence and the country’s economic struggles.

“So many people are frustrated and are looking for a level of trust and confidence,” Spencer said.

“We’re facing American problems and Utah problems.”

Speaking of Romney, Chaffetz said, “He’s probably the singular most popular figure in Utah. He reaches an audience above and beyond those people I normally communicate with.”

The Romney endorsement may enhance Chaffetz’s fundraising efforts, which could help insulate him from future challenges. Jowers compares the situation to Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, who has built up such a large war chest that opponents are scared off — though political safety is not absolute. Chaffetz himself found a way to overcome Cannon’s massive fundraising advantage, for example.

“Gov. Romney is interested in supporting candidates who will promote policies that will strengthen our families, our economy and our military,” said spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. “He sees in Jason Chaffetz a dynamic young leader.”

Romney is reportedly among the favorites to become vice-presidential running mate to Republican Sen. John McCain.

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It has been a while since I clicked on the Free & Strong America PAC website. When I went on the site this afternoon, I scrolled through the list of endorsees and discovered Jason Chaffetz’ name as well as two other candidates that I have looked at but not yet written about here.

It is good to know that Gov. Romney is confirming my assessments of these candidates. In my opinion, we have got the beginnings of a very effective political action site right here at CTR. Staying informed is very important in itself and I think all of us together do a good job of that. But actually driving public opinion, to whatever limited extent that happens, is taking it to another level.

In my opinion, we should all feel very fortunate to have a site like this that served as a clearinghouse of information during the months leading up to the primaries. Those of us who worked in Des Moines and New Hampshire and Michigan were able to co-ordinate our activities here and trade info about our experiences working with the campaign staffs. Now we have the opportunity to help elect Republicans to Congress using this forum and to get a synergistic increase in the level of support we generate by reaching viewers here who would not be reached by the individual campaigns or by the various PACs acting to support candidates whose positions they think are important to the country.

I know that some of our current commenters were referred here by friends or relatives. If you think what we do here is helpful, please tell at least three people about us. Together we can be a more effective voice for conservatism.

~~John Cronin~~

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It’s good to know that an “outsider” can still shake up the establishment if he or she has the courage and tenacity to buck the status quo. It’s also good to know that, in Pat Buchanan’s memorable phrase, “peasants with pitchforks” can start a grassroots campaign, with no paid staff and no party backing and still pull off a coup.

Kudos to Jason Chaffetz and his “peasants with pitchforks” on their big primary win and now it’s on to Washington and let’s work for change there as well.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9973377

By Robert Gehrke
The Salt Lake Tribune

The Republican Party establishment, which took a few shots from 3rd District candidate Jason Chaffetz earlier in the campaign, is now embracing Chaffetz following his defeat of Rep. Chris Cannon in a June primary.

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. endorsed Chaffetz on Wednesday, praising his “tenacity.” And Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, who backed Cannon during the primary, will host a Washington fundraiser for Chaffetz next week.

“At the end of the day, Republicans need to come together, and this takes us one step further in that direction,” Chaffetz said of the endorsements. “We’re all Republicans. We disagree on some issues, but we’ve got to beat the Democrats come November, so I very much appreciate their support. I need it.”

Huntsman spent the primary campaign on the sidelines, even though Chaffetz ran Huntsman’s campaign for governor and was his chief of staff during much of the governor’s first year in office.

“As a member of Congress, Jason’s dogged tenacity will serve the people of Utah well,” Huntsman said in a statement Wednesday. “Jason has worked determinedly in his public service. His dedication and ability to dive into hard issues will be a formidable addition to Utah’s congressional delegation.”

But during his speech at the state Republican Convention in May, Chaffetz got loud applause by taking a shot at the governor’s stance on climate change.

“Jon Huntsman, as much as I like you, you’re wrong on global warming. It’s a farce,” Chaffetz said, as Huntsman and his family stood just off-stage.

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Jason Chaffetz just returned from a week long fact finding trip to the ANWR (Alaska National Wildlife Refuge) region of Alaska’s North Slope. In the article he blames the energy crisis on the Democrats. On this point I don’t agree with Jason. IMHO, Democrats bear the major part of the blame, but some Republicans have been part of the problem as well. Their has been no monopoly of vice or virtue in either party.

It sure looks like the logjam on domestic drilling is starting to break apart. It has been exciting to see the level of public debate rise to the heights we have all witnessed with just the past month. Hopefully, this debate marks the end of a long held national policy of no drilling, no new ideas and no solutions.

~~John Cronin~~

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700244044,00.html

By Arthur Raymond
Deseret News

After visiting Alaska’s oil reserves this week, Utah Republican congressional candidate Jason Chaffetz said Democratic inaction has landed the country in its current energy dilemma.
Chaffetz spent most of this week in Alaska to become familiar with a domestic resource that Democrats have historically refused to tap — oil reserves in the federally protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Reached by phone Thursday in Anchorage, Alaska, Chaffetz identified what he sees as the cause, and solution, to escalating energy prices.

“There’s no doubt that Democrats are the problem. We’ve done what they’ve suggested, and look at the results — since (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi took over, gas prices have doubled,” Chaffetz said. “Energy is our most pressing need — and ANWR appears to be part of the solution.”

Chaffetz, along with six other Republican congressional candidates — none of them incumbents — toured the wildlife refuge and met with Alaskans in Kaktovik, Prudhoe Bay and Point Barrow. He said utilizing the resources in ANWR is just a part of a bigger plan necessary to bring new, and more affordable, energy on-line.

“We have to explore every facet of development that’s available — wind, solar, hydro, nuclear — we have to move forward on all fronts,” Chaffetz said.

Here’s a look at one of the commenter’s on the site had to say about Chaffetz’ trip to ANWR.

Amen! | 7:48 a.m. July 18, 2008
Chaffetz is right on. ANWR is a barren wasteland. The caribou heards that were supposed to have died out once the pipeline was built have actually increased. All the doomsday prophecies turned out to be false. There’s no reason not to drill in ANWR.

If people see the potential for additional supply on the market, the futures market won’t look quite so appealing and the speculators won’t be as successful at driving up the price of oil.

If Bennion Spencer is willing to let environmentalists push us around, he’ll never get my vote. I believe in conservation and I live it. But I reject the notion that extracting energy resources will destroy life as we know it.

I couldn’t agree more with Chaffetz that global warming is a farce. Climate change is no farce. But I reject the idea that man can control the planet’s climate cycles. I don’t care how many billions of dollars we spend, we can’t control Mother Nature. I DO NOT want to elect someone who wants to flush our economy down the toilet in a futile attempt to control the planet’s climate.

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http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301100996715667

~~John Cronin~~

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election:

There’s little doubt voters want more drilling if even congressional candidates are starting to trek to Alaska to urge more oil development. Seven are there now. [ Editor's Note: Jason Chaffetz is one of the candidates making the fact-finding trip] That’s a wake-up call to Congress.
Congressional challenger Craig Williams of Pennsylvania spoke to us Wednesday by phone from Deadhorse, Alaska. He and six other Republican candidates think there’s enough voter disapproval with Congress’ failure to do anything about gas prices to win this election, even in a season when Democrats are believed to have the advantage.
“We’ve got a Democratic Congress doing absolutely nothing. Even the Republicans (before them) didn’t do anything. So we are now paying $4 a gallon for gas. It’s an emergency,” Williams said.
The House, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has gone well beyond complacency and into obstruction. “We’ve got about a dozen bills ready for the floor of Congress, and they won’t allow any of the legislation to move forward,” Williams said. Democrats “are afraid of a Republican amendment on an energy bill and won’t allow it before the election.

The so-called Greens are portraying ANWR has heaven on earth, but I heard a pundit describe it this way: “If Hell ever did freeze over, this is what it would be like.”
The proposed drilling areas are on the coastal plain, not in the idyllic mountain ranges. When the spring thaw comes, it leaves behind huge ponds of stagnant water that dot the landscape and are a breeding ground for some of the worst mosquitoes who can imagine.
The drilling area is not located in one spot but is scattered over an area of about 2,000 acres, about the size of a major U.S. airport.

For starters, he noted, the potential drilling areas aren’t the idyllic tourist paradises environmentalists suggest. “That’s not where any drilling is proposed,” he said.
Take the tiny sliver of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge proposed for energy development, where 10 billion barrels of oil await. It’s an icy coastal plain, said Williams. “It’s still pretty, and people have homes here, but it’s not what you see on TV,” he said.
People in the area desperately need jobs, and polls consistently show 75% approval for more drilling, Crockett said.

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http://votejason.blogspot.com/

Like most of us on this site, I like to surf the Net to get a sampling of the thoughts and opinions of other bloggers. I have been posting for months about the need to take back the GOP from those politicians who don’t really believe in conservative principles, but just view the Party as a convenient vehicle for their personal ambition.

Below is a post on that theme from one of the pro Jason Chaffetz bloggers who was part of the grassroots campaign that swept Jason Chaffetz into office.

~John Cronin~~

Many of us are fed up with Republicans. Democrats will take that frustration and tell us to put them in office. However, here in Utah’s third district we’ve had our revolution without switching parties, ousting a long-time incumbent for a change back to actual conservative stands (NOT to be confused with the policies of Pres. Bush and the GOP of the last decade who have hijacked and tarnished the term “conservative”).

So what does it mean to be conservative in my opinion? It means having a government that protects our rights, our freedoms, and our lives. It means people should get assistance from other people, not entitlements from Uncle Sam. It means we live within our means, individuals and government alike. It means no socialism.

We believe these things because we have seen the failures of nations who violate those principles. No matter the good intentions, a country cannot prosper that doesn’t follow sound ideas - and I mean the Constitutional philosophies of Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Franklin and other inspired founders of the US.

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Jason Chaffetz rode the crest of voter anger and frustration over Congress’ dithering on illegal immigration and the energy crisis to sweep Open Borders Congressman Chris Cannon out of office! If I were an incumbent of either party who has been playing the “go along to get along” game while ignoring the express wishes of the people who put me in office, I would be experiencing an epiphany this morning.

Congratulations to the team of unpaid grassroots activists who helped put Jason over the top! Your campaign success is truly “Participatory Democracy” in action.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700237809,00.html

By Tad Walch
Deseret News
Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:30 a.m. MDT

A groundbreaking grassroots organization built by challenger Jason Chaffetz combined Tuesday with a growing storm of Republican discontent to sweep six-term Congressman Chris Cannon out of office.

Chaffetz handily defeated Cannon, earning 60 percent of the vote to land the Republican nomination for Utah’s 3rd District seat in Congress, a seat held by Cannon since 1996.

“I got a nice call from Congressman Cannon wishing us all the best. That was a sweet call to take,” Chaffetz said after 200 supporters greeted him at 11 p.m. with chants of “Jason, Jason, Jason.”

Unhappy Republican voters stayed home Tuesday, and those who did vote expressed their frustration with $4 gas and other problems. Cannon termed it a revolution, a sign that the anger that swept Democrats to power in Congress had lapped up on Utah’s borders.

Chaffetz agreed voters are frustrated.

“We have to get serious about $4 gasoline, fiscal discipline and the illegal immigration problem in America,” he said. “This is just the beginning. I need your help. We need to take this all the way through November.”

He’ll clearly follow the same blueprint that won the primary.

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Conservative blogger Travis Grant reports that popular radio host Bob Lonsberry will endorse Jason Chaffetz on his program today. Utah Mittheads, call your friends and relatives and give them the heads up on the broadcast and then make sure they get to the polls tommorrow to vote for Jason Chaffetz, the candidate who has signed the No New Taxes Pledge and who will enforce our border laws.

~~John Cronin~~

http://gazelem.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/bob-lonsberry-to-endorse-jason-chaffetz/

21 June 2008 — Travis Grant

After yesterdays post, I don’t know if I should be eating crow or claiming bragging rights on this. But Bob Lonsberry on Monday will be making an official endorsement of Jason Chaffetz on Monday through his web site and I am sure even on the Radio.

This has renewed my faith in Bob. I am not sure what brought about the change. But his article might give some clues:

Jason Chaffetz is a Ronald Reagan conservative. Chris Cannon is a George W. Bush conservative.

And that distinction is the difference which has divided and diffused the Republican Party and the conservative movement. A brief season of power corrupted the Republican Party and has now cost it both its influence and its soul.
…
Chris Cannon is part of the regime that failed.

And while he could easily serve out the rest of his life in Congress, and do useful work on a variety of issues, he would do so as just one more of the Washington compromisers. His infatuation with the process of governing has drowned out his commitment to cause.

It’s not that he lacks the courage of his convictions, it’s that he has grown unsure of his convictions. That suits him very well to fit in in Washington, where he is indistinguishable from the big-name Republicans who have endorsed him, but it leaves him oddly out of sync with patriotic and passionate work-a-day Americans in his district.

Chris Cannon is a Doug Wright Republican. Jason Chaffetz is an Ezra Taft Benson Republican.

Chris Cannon is a good man.

But Jason Chaffetz is the better choice.

As the Republican Party prepares for a season in the wilderness, Jason Chaffetz is a voice to cry in the wilderness. He is the man to stand in the well of the House, even if he’s only speaking to a C-SPAN camera, and preach the truth.

As much as I want to produce more of this. I really don’t have permission to print this much. I just use it to show that Bob has finally seen things the way that I do. While Chris Cannon is a good man. While he has served us well for the past 12 years. It is time that we get right of the Bush Republicans and return to the Reagan Republicans of yesterday.

This is awesome news for me. I hope that this is enough to get those fence sitters to realize like Bob and I do that this is about returning the party and this country back to what made us so great.

So, what made Bob change his mind. I honestly don’t know. I am inclined to believe that after interviewing both Jason Chaffetz and Chris Cannon yesterday (MP3), that Bob realized that principle mattered more than anything else.

My wife insists that it was because Bob read my post yesterday and I swayed him. I am inclined to denounce this assertion, but my stat counter makes it seem plausible.

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All eyes are on Utah this weekend as voters get ready to cast their ballots this Tuesday, June 24. The race between incumbent Chris Cannon and Jason Chaffetz is getting national attention because the stakes are so high and because the race is a surrogate referendum on whether we start drilling for domestic oil and wean ourselves from our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and whether we will finally secure our borders and insist that our immigration policies will be guided by the rule of law.

If you want to see these positions upheld in Congress and you live in Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, please be sure you vote for Jason Chaffetz and bring along 2 or 3 like minded friends or relatives.

Vote for Jason Chaffetz for Congress in Utah’s 3rd District this Tuesday!!

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3581444

It’s a primary election too close to call, and the hottest political races are among Republicans.
Congressman Chris Cannon is facing another close election next Tuesday, this time against fellow Republican Jason Chaffetz. And that’s not all: The state’s treasurer’s race is close too.

These are a hard-fought Republican-versus-Republican races, and an exclusive Dan Jones poll for KSL and The Deseret News shows no clear winner in either race.

In the 3rd Congressional District race, challenger Jason Chaffetz is aggressive about running for office. Before and since the Republican state convention, he’s been attacking incumbent Chris Cannon’s record.

The race has boosted interest in the primary. Of the 312 registered voters in the 3rd District, interest is high. All of them expressed they are very or somewhat likely to vote. But how will they vote?

The poll shows Cannon with a slight edge over Chaffetz, 44-40 percent. But the remaining 16 percent are undecided, which means Tuesday’s results could depend on turnout.

“Of those, those who show the most interest, Chaffetz is one or two points ahead. But of those who plan to vote, it is Mr. Cannon,” said political pollster Dan Jones.

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Open borders Congressman Chris Cannon’s campaign is almost out of money and Jason Chaffetz, although having been outspent 6 to 1 by the Cannon campaign, has seen his fund raising totals surge since he almost defeated Cannon in the Utah Republican convention back in May of this year.

FEC reports show Cannon down to his last $10,000, while Jason Chaffetz’ campaign has $65,000 to spend with less than two weeks left before the June 24 primary.

Go, Jason, Go!!

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=
cqmidday-000002897143

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Utah Republican Rep. Chris Cannon “has easily outraised challenger Jason Chaffetz, but the six-term incumbent congressman has less than $10,000 to carry him down the home stretch of the primary election race.” According to the newspaper, the Cannon campaign says it has raised $70,000 since the June 4 cut off for the report to the Federal Elections Commission. “Campaign reports from the two candidates show that Cannon has burned through nearly $662,000 during his re-election bid, compared with Chaffetz’ $98,664,” the Tribune reports. But Chaffetz “had $65,165 left in his campaign account, while Cannon has just $9,259 left, according to pre-primary reports filed Thursday by the candidates.”

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Jason Chaffetz and Chris Cannon debated last night and among the points they argued were economic policies that are in the forefront as the credit, oil and stock markets are so much in the headlines.

For my money, Chaffetz was the clear winner. To me, Chris Cannon represents the “go along to get along” approach to politics that has ruled the roost in Washington for too long.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_9558767

By: Robert Gehrke

With gas passing $4 a gallon, the housing market sputtering and national jobless numbers spiking, the uncertain economy has become a pivotal issue of the 3rd Congressional District battle between Rep. Chris Cannon and challenger Jason Chaffetz.
“I think it ranks as one of the top issues because the economy affects everybody,” said Heather Tucker, of West Jordan, whose husband works from home because his company downsized. “People are having to cut back on their businesses and their expenses and the prices of gas and food, that affects us personally.”

The article has some quotes on Jason Chaffetz’ positions on several key issues. As you can see, Mr. Caffetz is very conservative and, in my opinion, courageous, because a couple of his stands are controversial, even among Republicans.

Jason Chaffetz

* Vows not to request any earmarks: “The merits of these projects have got to stand on their own.”

* Wants to cap federal non-defense spending at 1 percent below inflation.

* Says that, according to government evaluations, 28 percent of federal programs are not serving their purposes and their funding should be targeted: “Republicans have lost the mantle of fiscal discipline. We’re going to have to lead out on the hard ones, not just the easy ones. That’s called leadership, and we lack it now in Washington.”

* Supports eliminating the federal Department of Education, although some aid to college students could be continued.

* Supports extending the Bush tax cuts

* Opposes federal aid to homeowners: “Markets need to adjust, and although it’s painful, it’s a healthy and necessary part of a market-driven economy. It’s not the role of government to go in and bail everybody out.”

* Opposed Bush’s economic stimulus plan: “[It was] government redistribution of wealth, Cannon voted for it, I opposed it. It was wrong.”

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Congressman Cannon (R-Utah) hears Jason Chaffetz’ footsteps coming up fast from behind and figures he better introduce some legislation quickly that will help him stave off the serious challenge he is getting in the Utah Republican primary on June 24.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9534519

By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune

WASHINGTON -

Riding the public outcry on soaring oil prices, Rep. Chris Cannon is introducing legislation that would allow the president to skip the red tape on permitting oil shale extraction.

It’s a move aimed at speeding up what Cannon calls a vast domestic energy source.

Utah, Colorado and Wyoming hold what some oil shale supporters say is a Saudi Arabian-sized reserve of synthetic oil in sedimentary rock that can be heated and processed into a fuel source. Six companies are now exploring the ability to extract the oil shale in Utah, but none are close enough to produce a commercially feasible product.

Cannon, a Utah Republican who is seeking re-election and faces an intraparty battle with Jason Chaffetz in two weeks, says his legislation will dramatically cut the time needed to open up fields of oil shale under federal lands.

Chaffetz called his primary opponent’s bill, days before the election, a “PR stunt.”

“He’s had his chance, and the time to act was when Republicans had the House, the Senate and the White House,” he said. “We didn’t even have to ask a Democrat back then.”

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http://www.conservativefront.com/2008/06/05/
jason-chaffetz-within-two-percent-of-cannon/

According to the Conservative Front the email below was forwarded to the Utah Republican Assembly by Bay Buchanan, a conservative activist and author and Pat Buchanan’s sister. She sounds like she is really pumped by Jason Chaffetz’ chances against Chris Cannon in the upcoming primary.

Go, Jason, Go!

Dear Friend,

The race in Utah is heating up and our man, Jason Chaffetz, is closing in on one of La Raza’s favorite congressman, Chris Cannon. You remember the Cannon-he’s famous for saying that in Utah, “We don’t often times make the distinction between legal and illegal [immigrants]”

Two weeks ago, when in Utah for my son’s wedding, I made of point of having lunch with Jason and his wife. I wanted to be certain he was the kind of candidate who deserved the endorsement of Team America and your support as well.

I am excited to tell you he is all that and more. Solid on the issues, Tancredo-good on immigration-Jason is also tough and gutsy. He will not buckle under pressure. Jason is exactly what we need in Washington.

I just spoke with Jason and he is really thrilled with the feel of the campaign. As well he should be-he has closed to within 2% of Cannon!!!

But he needs our help if he is to beat Cannon. The establishment, ethnic lobbyists, and corporate buddies are once again pouring money into Cannon’s coffers. They know he is a solid vote for their amnesty and guest worker bills. They will do all they can to keep Cannon in Congress-and Jason out.

Jason’s knows he needs to get his message right to the people with strong radio ads. He has already cut the ads-now he needs to raise the money to get them on air!

And Chris Cannon is up to his old tricks. His website has an outrageously misleading video on immigration in which Cannon claims to be against amnesty!! We need to help Jason get the facts out about Cannon’s record and Jason will win this congressional seat.

He needs our help and he needs it now. If there is anyway you can make a contribution to him please do so TODAY. Jason has promised me that all the money Team America raises for him will be used to buy radio Your generous contribution will be used for Jason’s radio buy.

If you want to make your contribution directly to his campaign at his website. Otherwise contribute to Team America and mark in the comment section “For Jason”. We will then send Jason-overnight-a check for the total amount of earmarked contributions. (Team America keeps no portion of contributions earmarked for candidates.)

Thanks again for everything you do to protect and secure this nation.

Warmest regards,

Bay Buchanan

The quote below is from the website.

2% is likely within the statistical margin of error. Jason can win this election. The people of Utah are tired of Cannon’s empty rhetoric and constant inaction. Glenn Beck told his listeners today about the 6,000 people who have been killed along our border with Mexico over the past couple of years by violent gangs. Our legislators knew almost nothing about it. This is why we need strength in Congress. We need someone who can shake those dullards out of their sleepy comfort. Congress needs a new spine. Chris Cannon has failed us in that regard.
Let’s really hit Cannon hard in the next few weeks. Go Jason!

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Mitt Romney clone, Jason Chaffetz, will be holding a series of Town Hall meetings in Utah in upcoming weeks. For our Utah readers, please go to as many of these meetings as you can and let me know how the meetings went, what kind of turnout, audience response to Jason, etc.

~~John Cronin~~

Republican House challenger Jason Chaffetz is holding a series of four town hall gatherings, billed as “Ask Jason Anything” meetings, where voters can gather and explore the candidate’s views.

Chaffetz is challenging six-term Rep. Chris Cannon for the GOP nomination in the 3rd Congressional District.

The meetings, which all begin at 7 p.m., are scheduled to be held:

* June 10 at the South Jordan Library;
* June 12 at the Provo City Library;
* June 17 at the Hunter Library in West Valley City;
* And June 19 at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Orem.

Here’s your chance to listen to the man and make a decision for yourselves. I urge you to listen carefully and demand a “plan of action” for each point.

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