# Chaffetz to resign on 6/30 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945 "2017-05-18T19:49:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/1 "2017-05-18T19:49:01Z")
[Story here.](http://www.npr.org/2017/05/18/528989433/utah-rep-jason-chaffetz-to-leave-office-at-the-end-of-june) Not even waiting for his term to run out. Wants to spend more time with his family. How long until we hear the story behind the story? ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/2 "2017-05-18T19:54:49Z")
Gone are the days when “a dead girl or a live boy” are the probable explanations. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/3 "2017-05-18T20:04:01Z")
He’s effectively pleading guilty to charges that haven’t even been made yet. We know _he_, not Comey, was the leak to the public of the letter Comey wrote about Weiner’s e-mails. So did he get another one about Trump/Russia that he didn’t make public? Is he complicit that way, or some other way? Did he resign because his committee was going to have to investigate its own chairman? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/4 "2017-05-18T20:08:22Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > He’s effectively pleading guilty to charges that haven’t even been made yet. > > We know _he_, not Comey, was the leak to the public of the letter Comey wrote about Weiner’s e-mails. So did he get another one about Trump/Russia that he didn’t make public? Is he complicit that way, or some other way? > > Did he resign because his committee was going to have to investigate its own chairman? He was planning on flooding Clinton with investigations if she got elected. He tried to bravely soldier on but life has no meaning now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/5 "2017-05-18T20:13:01Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He was planning on flooding Clinton with investigations if she got elected. > He tried to bravely soldier on but life has no meaning now. > > 😃 I saw speculation that it was a simple at that - I mean, that his path forward changed when Clinton didn’t get elected. So he’s going to [Fox News](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/333327-jason-chaffetz-planning-to-take-on-role-at-fox-news-report) to make his fortune there, since his previous career trajectory was no longer viable. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/6 "2017-05-18T20:48:53Z")
I’m going to miss his smug, smart-ass smile. Wait, let me rephrase that: I’ll be glad to not see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/7 "2017-05-18T20:53:33Z")
Classic ‘flight to avoid prosecution’. Fuck him. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/8 "2017-05-18T21:04:57Z")
Is he the one rumored to be having an affair? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/9 "2017-05-20T00:15:09Z")
> [@](#): > > He said the experience has allowed him to reconnect with his wife and youngest daughter, who is finishing her sophomore year in high school. There’s something fishy going on: anyone who has known a teenager knows there is absolutely zero chance that a 16-year-old girl would want to “reconnect” with her father. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/10 "2017-05-20T00:31:04Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I’m going to miss his smug, smart-ass smile. Wait, let me rephrase that: I’ll be glad to not see it again. Jason Chaffetz is the **only** politician anywhere on the national political scene who I honestly want to punch in the face. Gawd he’s a schmuck. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/11 "2017-05-20T00:49:35Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Jason Chaffetz is the **only** politician anywhere on the national political scene who I honestly want to punch in the face. Gawd he’s a schmuck. Not even Mitch McConnell? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/12 "2017-05-20T00:59:47Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Not even Mitch McConnell? Someone already beat you to it. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/13 "2017-05-20T01:17:08Z")
Well, if he suddenly takes a gig with Russia Times and relocates his family to Moscow… ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/14 "2017-05-20T01:22:38Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Not even Mitch McConnell? Nope. I mean, I’d enjoy punching that weasel too but I think I’d have a harder time resisting such urges if I were to actually meet Chaffetz. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/15 "2017-06-30T16:36:18Z")
… and, WRAP! > ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/16 "2017-06-30T18:21:26Z")
He’s joining Fox News as a “[contributor](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/06/28/jason-chaffetz-wont-need-a-housing-stipend-after-new-fox-news-gig/)”, whatever that means. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/17 "2017-06-30T18:29:29Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > He’s joining Fox News as a “[contributor](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/06/28/jason-chaffetz-wont-need-a-housing-stipend-after-new-fox-news-gig/)”, whatever that means. It means he gets paid more to have a larger soapbox from which to proclaim his message. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/18 "2017-06-30T18:29:34Z")
He’s the guy who made the remark about poor people having to decide between paying for health insurance or the new iPhone. I’m glad he’s going. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/19 "2017-06-30T18:48:52Z")
I guess he won’t need that housing stipend anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945/20 "2017-06-30T19:14:14Z")
He’s just making a principled stand for congressional term limits… 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chaffetz-to-resign-on-6-30/786945.md?page=2)