March 2017 | Vol. 14 Iss. 03
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CHAFFETZ MET WITH ANGER AND CONTEMPT during town hall meeting By Cassie Goff | cassie@mycityjournals.com
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During the town hall meeting with Rep. Jason Chaffetz, audience members become passionate as President Trump becomes a topic of conversation. (Cassie Goff/City Journals)
Management (BLM). Before he answered, Chaffetz noticed some signs in the audience and asked what they were. In response, he was screamed and booed at for not answering the question right away. One woman even rushed toward the stage demanding that he give an answer. Chaffetz began to answer the question by saying he does enjoy wildlife and public lands. He then asked if people liked that he withdrew H.R. 621, a bill that would have sold off public
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land across the U.S., including hundreds of thousands of acres in Utah. “There are some aspects of the bill I think you’d really like,” he said. “One of the things that I helped champion was 300plus miles of the continuous wild receiving designation down Isolation Canyon. Did you like that? Because that was still the Public Lands Intuitive.” Chaffetz explained there is typically only one BLM police officer for every one million
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righton High School’s auditorium was at capacity on Thursday, Feb. 9 for a town hall meeting with Rep. Jason Chaffetz. The event was scheduled from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., but residents started lining up at the front of the school around 3 p.m. By the time the town hall began, the auditorium held approximately 1,000 screaming residents while over 1,000 more chanted outside the doors in protest. Chants from the groups protesting outside included, “vote him out, “keep your hands off our lands,” “do your job,” “investigate Trump,” “you work for us,” “keep it public,” “impeach 45,” and an echo chant where the first group yelled, “show/tell us what democracy looks like” while the second group replied, “this is what democracy looks like.” Inside the auditorium, Chaffetz stepped on stage and was met with chanting, booing and screaming from the audience. “Thank you for being here,” he began. “I do believe as a representative, a part of my role and responsibility is to stand, and to listen, and to hear, and to have a public dialogue. That’s what this is about.” Chaffetz began his address by mentioning President Donald Trump. Those three words were all it took to make the crowd pipe up again. Chaffetz then called on an attendee to ask a question, who brought up the Bureau of Land
acres of land. If ever the BLM needs help, they contract with local sheriff offices. “What this bill would do, is get rid of the BLM enforcers and give that money and those assets and those responsibilities to the local sheriffs,” Chaffetz said. “The net effects of that is more law enforcement at the local level who can solve these problems and their crimes. That’s my intention, to actually have more law enforcement so they can actually enforce and protect public lands.” This comment sparked booing from the audience. The next attendee Chaffetz called on asked a question about Trump and his comments about Muslims. Chaffetz said he thought the negative comments made by Trump about Muslims were “absolutely wrong.” He said he then began to visit mosques in Salt Lake County. A Muslim community leader asked Chaffetz about Trump’s travel ban, asking why Pakistan and Saudi Arabia weren’t on the list. She then asked why Chaffetz doesn’t investigate the reasoning behind the selection of banned countries. “Honestly, I don’t know the answer to that question. I really don’t,” Chaffetz said. “I know that the seven countries that were on that list were identified largely by the Obama conitnued on page 15…
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