Jason Chaffetz announces for speaker job

The speaker election is set for Thursday. Emily Stephenson reports at Reuters that Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz has

declared a bid to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Chaffetz, 48, of Utah, rose quickly to committee leadership after being elected in 2008. He has gained attention for aggressively targeting Planned Parenthood.

Read more (biased) coverage here.

Chaffetz is a life long Democrat, until he met Ronald Reagan, so proceed with caution. Jennifer Kern will write about this tomorrow in the Blaze.