Hello Congressman Chaffetz,

First, I want to thank you. It was honorable that you held an in-person town hall (unlike other representatives in our state). That was brave, and I thank you for that.

We both know that the night tumbled downhill for you from the start. You didn’t give a microphone to people who asked questions, forcing them to shout in a room of a thousand people just to be heard and amplifying the tensions in the audience.

You then completely evaded answering the first question, indicating to all of us that you weren’t there to actually address our concerns. When you did the same thing for the second and third questions, we sensed a pattern.

We asked you to investigate Trump for breaking the emoluments clause, and you pivoted to a speech about why presidential candidates should release their medical records. We asked why you told everyone you were going to vote for Trump (i.e., why you endorsed him), and you pivoted to a stock answer about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi. Your responses were evasive— standard politico speak.

Because of this, many of us lost patience, and when we sensed you were going to evade another question, we shouted for you to actually give an answer.

The next day, people who weren’t at the event only saw video clips of people interrupting you when you started to speak—not understanding why we were so quick to interrupt after having been ignored and having no microphone. People who didn’t attend also read that the crowd was booing the Pledge of Allegiance, which simply didn’t happen (this video is proof).

Worst of all, we later saw that you blamed the crowd’s anger on out-of-state radicals who you said were paid to attend.

That notion is laughable, as this tweet demonstrates:

So as one of your constituents… allow me to introduce myself.

I’ve lived in Utah my whole life and still do (Provo, to be exact). I voted for you in 2008, and defended you against detractors when you were first elected. I was a registered Republican, and I didn’t take issue with you those first few years after you were elected.

Things started to change for me when you blew the Benghazi story out of proportion to score points with Fox News viewers. You constantly talked about the deaths of four American citizens without putting those deaths in context with the thousands of American citizens who died in the botched Iraq war. In other words, you gave Benghazi a disproportionate amount of attention. It was clearly a practice in theatrics on your part, and it indicated to me that you were more interested in getting your face on Fox News than in treating the issues fairly. In addition, it showed me that you cared more about political theater than you cared about issues that directly affect Utah.

When you did the same thing with Clinton’s emails, my opposition for you grew stronger. It was political theater all over again—fixating on a non-Utah story that didn’t deserve the attention you gave it. Bernie Sanders was right to ignore the emails completely when he fought Clinton in the primary. Sanders could rightly see that Clinton’s emails were way down the list of wrongs that the political establishment had committed. And yet you fixated on her emails, again because it played well on Fox News.

And then along came Donald Trump—the most despicable politician in my lifetime (as I outline here). When Trump was caught boasting about trying to cheat on his third wife and boasting about violating women and saying that the dozen women who claimed he had indeed violated them were ugly, you said that you couldn’t endorse Trump because you “couldn’t look your daughter in the eye.”

Then you told everyone you were going to vote for him anyway. You didn’t quietly vote for him. You told everyone. That’s an endorsement.