Orlando, Fla. • A Florida man has pleaded guilty to making a threatening phone call to former Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz this March, leaving a voicemail telling him that he would hunt him down.
Charles Zachary Howard of Winter Park, Florida, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to threatening Chaffetz, the Orlando Sentinel reports .
Howard, a registered Republican, called Chaffetz’s Washington office and threatened to hunt him down, “wrap a rope around your neck and hang you from a lamppost.”
The harassing call came one day after Chaffetz suggested in an appearance on CNN that people might want to spend money on their own health care rather than buying new iPhones.