2017 reflection • Chaffetz’s decision to leave Congress just a few months after he ran for and won re-election costs the counties in his 3rd District thousand of dollars to administer a special election to replace him.
2018 prediction • Chaffetz emerges from obscurity, giving speeches and sending out news releases, suggesting he may run for governor in 2020. He touts as his reason for doing so his commitment to protecting the Utah taxpayer from any unnecessary expenditures.
2017 reflection • Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes goes to court to prevent the public from learning his office’s legal opinion about how special elections for Congress should be conducted.