Chaffetz canceled meeting with ethics chief, then lambasted him publicly for not showing up.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jason-chaffetz-emails-meeting-with-shaub_us_587fe1d1e4b04b69667e3760?lk0saldx4tbkjra4i

Politico also reported that Chaffetz said Shaub had refused “since the election” to agree to a meeting to discuss certain issues.

That’s not what the emails show.

Chaffetz’s office requested the meeting in December and the congressman missed a proposed time that month, according to the emails HuffPost obtained through a public records request with OGE. (An OGE spokesman declined to comment.)

On Dec. 3, the staff director for the House oversight committee wrote in an email to OGE staff that Chaffetz wanted to schedule a meeting with Shaub.

An OGE staff member emailed the staff director at 1:17 p.m. on Dec. 8 that the office was unsure if a proposed 2:30 p.m. in-person meeting was on or not, but Shaub was available. A half-hour later, another OGE staff member emailed Shaub saying Chaffetz’s office had blamed them for skipping it: “Chairman Chaffetz’s scheduler told me: ‘The Chairman requested that I pass on the message that he is disturbed and disappointed that we weren’t able to make this happen.”

The OGE staff member seemed confused. He wrote that although OGE had proposed a phone call as opposed to meeting in person, “I never once declined an in-person meeting” and the 2:30 meeting “was never declined by us and never taken off of the table.” A staffer noted that OGE staff waited up on Capitol Hill that day and Chaffetz’s office didn’t pick up the phone.

The next day, the committee staff director wrote to OGE staff, “I’m sorry to have missed this yesterday...the Chairman’s scheduled was backed up with a hard stop for a return flight home.”

But Chaffetz nonetheless blamed OGE in the press. In an email to his staff, Shaub called the claim Chaffetz declined to meet with him “bizarre.” He added, “we have emails corroborating the fact that the Chairman is the one who cancelled the meeting.”

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1. Why does this not surprise me in the least?

Chaffetz is a slimy SOB. His concerns are not with ethics or corruption only the continuation of power. He is a cockroach that should be watched very closely and perhaps even investigated for his connections within the FBI and his willingness to corrupt the election.

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2. Chaffetz is a particularly slimy little fuckwad.

The Tucker Carlson of Congress.

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3. I think your posting is unfair

to slimy little fuckwads. Chaffetz is WAY, WAY lower than them!

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4. I've seen dog turds with more principles and professional demeanor than chaffetz.(nt)