Caffetz for U.S. Senate?

An article appeared in my local paper today that stated House Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R) will likely seek the U.S. Senatorial seat now occupied by six-term Sen. Orrin Hatch.

I have lived in Utah since before Chaffetz was elected to the House, and have written him on a number of issues. Any correspondence I send is returned with a Republican party agenda that promises blah, blah, blah and all other such rhetoric. I wrote the following comment to the article:

"I have seen what happens economically to a state that loses a long-serving Senator; and Utah would feel those ramifications for years to come should our awful Rep from central Utah succeed in supplanting Hatch in the Senate.


Chaffetz got elected to the House based solely on his past as a BYU Cougar. Since then, he has done next to nothing as a Representative besides bark his Republican masters vitriolic party agenda/rhetoric instead of doing what he was elected to do...serve his constituency. In all my decades as a voter, I have never seen as useless and inconsequential a Representative as Jason Chaffetz has turned out to be.

Hatch is trying to make a difference for us. Chaffetz only wants the title, then be the lapdog for the Republican National Committee. After all, based on his record thus far, what else would the voters of Utah expect from a Congressman as worthless as Chaffetz? "

What a mistake it would be to elect this guy to the Senate. The representation we would receive in return would be non-existent, as evidenced by Chaffetzs' efforts thus far in the House.

*Note (06/10/11): In the nearly 36 hours since I posted the above response, I have yet to receive a reply of any sort. Maybe I have a point...