Last evening, on Richard Piatt’s SUNDAY EDITION (ksl channel 5), Randy Miller of the Fair Boundaries group, stated that Rep. Craig Frank’s endorsement letter to Jason Chaffetz’s Campaign (in 2008), commented that if elected, Jason would live in his district following the adoption of the “Four District Map” configuration.  As though there was something nefarious about this statement. [Link HERE to ksl.com for video, Segment 1, at the 11:00 mark).

During its 5th Special Session, prior to Jason Chaffetz announcing he was running for the 3rd Congressional District, the State Legislature in December of 2006  adopted a four district map in the likelihood that the U.S. Congress voted to give Washington, DC its own (unconstitutional) Representative seat, thus giving Utah another House seat (for political balancing and buy off reasons) thus increasing the number of Representatives in Congress to 437.  Rep. Frank’s statement wasn’t about “fixing” a district for Jason Chaffetz, but, in fact, was about preparing Utah for what appeared at the time to be inevitable…a 4th District seat.  As had been the case many times before, though, the 4th District seat was not to be…until of course 2012 Reapportionment.

Link HERE for SB5001 (3rd Substitute) Congressional Four Member Redistricting Plan, dated 12/4/06.  This plan was adopted by the legislature, 51-19-5 in the House & 23-4-2 in the Senate.

Link HERE for Robert Gehrke’s Out of Context blog, dated Saturday May 17, 2008