Rep. Jason Chaffetz listens to questions as many of those in attendance hold signs and yell during a town hall meeting at Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Do you prefer pizza or doughnuts? And what do those food items have to do with a raucous, crowded town hall meeting recently held in Salt Lake County by U.S. Congressman Jason Chaffetz? Lest it be lost on Chaffetz and others who are scratching their heads in wonder or dismissing the town hall attendees as simply left-leaning outsiders: Salt Lake County residents had a pizza-shaped redistricting plan forced down their collective throats as a result of the 2010 reapportionment process.
Category: Cottonwood Heights, UT
Angry voters flood town halls of GOP lawmakers
A person shouts to Rep. Jason Chaffetz during his town hall meeting Thursday in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Hundreds of people lined up early for the event, many holding signs criticizing the congressman’s push to repeal the newly named Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah.
Angry voters flood town halls of GOP lawmakers
A person shouts to Rep. Jason Chaffetz during his town hall meeting at Brighton High School, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Hundreds of people lined up early for a town hall with Chaffetz on Thursday evening, many holding signs criticizing the congressman’s push to repeal the newly-named Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah.