Representative jason chaffetz biography of michael

Personal

Born in Los Gatos, Calif., ... parents are John and Peggy ... John was a student manager for the football team at Penn State from 1953-56 under an assistant coach named Joe Paterno ... was Utah co-chairman for Michael Dukakis U.S. Presidential campaign ... is a half-brother to one of Dukakis' sons, John ... younger brother Alex, was a kicker at Kansas ... recruited by Arizona State, Air Force, Wake Forest, Texas Tech, Penn State and Illinois ... majoring in business with a communications minor ... worked part-time for a Salt Lake City television station in the off-season.

Before BYU

Prepped at Middle Park High, where he lettered in football, track and soccer ... named all-conference and all-league in football and all-city in soccer ... holds school record for longest field goal of 43 yards ... coached by former NFL pro Fred Steinfort (Boston College).

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Congressman Jason Chaffetz is a Contributor on Fox News Networks and a Fellow at Harvard at the Kennedy School, Institute of Politics.

Jason Chaffetz was elected to Congress in 2008 and selected by his peers to be a Chairman in the House of Representatives—only the fifth time in 100 years a three-term Representative ascended to such a position.

As Chairman of the powerful Oversight & Government Reform Committee, he led investigations into the United States Secret Service, the Department of Education I.T. vulnerabilities, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Benghazi terrorist attack, misuse of classified information by Hillary Clinton, Fast & Furious, and the IRS scandal. Congressman Chaffetz left Congress in June 2017.

Prior to Congress he was Chief of Staff to the Governor of Utah.  A former football player on the Brigham Young University Football Team, he earned his BA in Communications in 1989 and then joined the local business community for 16 years before entering the public sector.

Reporting from Washington — Rep. Jason Chaffetz is trying to line up all the political support he can right now as he wages an insurgent battle to become the next speaker of the House.

Here’s one endorsement the conservative Republican from Utah may not want: Michael Dukakis.

Yes, that Michael Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate who became the emblem for Massachusetts liberals and card-carrying members of the ACLU.

In an interview two years ago, Dukakis talked about his long-standing relationship with Chaffetz, saying that “Jason had been listening to my precinct-based grass-roots organizing” advice “for years.”

At the time, the congressman was not as prominent as he is today, a powerful committee chairman trying to beat Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield in a bid for the top job in the House.

Dukakis described Chaffetz in the 2013 interview as “a comer, I think, on the Republican side.”

The two politicians, the conservative from Utah and the liberal from Massachusetts, make one of the oddest political couples in the country. They have a deep, albeit confusing, family connection. Dukakis chuckled as he described it, noting that Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah is among several people who have erroneously described Chaffetz as Dukakis’ stepson.

It’s not quite that. But the relationship is close. Dukakis’ wife, Kitty, long ago was married to Chaffetz’s father, John -- before Jason was born. After Kitty and John Chaffetz divorced and Kitty married Michael Dukakis, the families and their children, stepchildren and half siblings maintained close relationships, Dukakis said.

Dukakis sounded nostalgic and a bit proud in the 2013 interview, which wasn’t published at the time. He marveled at Chaffetz’s communication skills and called him “very friendly, very outgoing.” He reminisced about Chaffetz’s youth and career as a college

American politician (born 1967)

Jason E. Chaffetz (; born March 26, 1967) is an American retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 3rd congressional district from 2009 until his resignation in 2017. He chaired the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from 2015 until 2017.

Chaffetz came to prominence in 2015 for his extensive investigations into Hillary Clinton. He rescinded his endorsement of Donald Trump in early October 2016 but expressed his intent to vote for him three weeks later. Having investigated Clinton and the Obama administration extensively, Chaffetz drew criticism after the 2016 election for declining to investigate potential conflicts of interest relating to President Donald Trump, and that of other individuals involved in his 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent presidential administration.

He resigned from office in 2017, six months into his fifth Congressional term, and has since been a commentator, Fox News contributor, and author. In 2021 Chaffetz joined the Government Accountability Institute.

Early life and education

Chaffetz was born in Los Gatos, California, and raised in California,Arizona, and Colorado. His father, John A. Chaffetz (1935–2012), was a businessman, and his mother, Margaret "Peggy" A. Wood (1942–1995), was a Christian Scientist who later became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and ran a photography business. In the late 1970s, his father became involved with the ownership group of the Los Angeles Aztecs, a professional soccer team. His father later wrote Gay Reality: The Team Guido Story, a book about a gay couple who competed on The Amazing Race. His younger brother, Alex, runs a Colorado-based media consulting firm.^[15]