As LL noted this morning, it seems young Jason Chaffetz of Utah is taking the lead in the House of Representatives in attempts to overturn the District’s recognition of same-sex marriages.
His hometown newspapers, the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune, both published stories about his involvement today.
Here’s what the latter wrote:
While Chaffetz agrees he would object to the federal government telling his hometown of Alpine to recognize or not recognize gay marriage, the freshman congressman says the District of Columbia is different because it receives federal funding as the nation’s capital.
“People in Salt Lake City are paying for the operation and government in the District of Columbia,” Chaffetz says. He adds that he believes Congress should vote on the issue.
Um, so, congressman, you did check whether your hometown of Alpine is receiving any federal funds, right?
LL is certain you made sure that your community received no community development block grants or police bulletproof vest money or any of that stimulus money and that none of those roads in your beautiful town were built with a portion of the federal highway trust fund, right? Because that would mean Congress should get a say over how your town is run, if LL understands you correctly. More to the point, it would follow that, LL, as a federal taxpayer, would be entitled to congressional representation he doesn’t currently have.
And surely you made especially certain that your hometown fire department didn’t receive, in 2006, a nearly million-dollar handout from the Department of Homeland Security in order to hire firefighters, right?