Last week, we reported that in the wake of the Republican Party’s takeover of the House, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) would likely be elevated to the post of the District’s official minder and overlord on the Hill. Chaffetz is the ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia after all, so his ascendancy to the chairmanship would make sense.

But today, Talking Points Memo confirms an intriguing rumor that has been making the rounds — Chaffetz may be put in charge of another subcommittee, leaving the lordship over the District to someone else. “I don’t know, I think they very well may reshuffle the deck,” Chaffetz told TPM. “I expect to be heavily involved, but I don’t know how we’re going to allocate the subcommittees. [W]hether or not I’m on the subcommittee, we wouldn’t know until December.”

As much as Chaffetz makes a great foil for voting rights activists — and the perfect means to fire up residents into fighting for the cause — we’re doing some serious finger-crossing here that he is assigned elsewhere. There are generally two types of Republicans on the Hill: those that may oppose statehood or expanded D.C. autonomy for the city because it’s the party-line, and those that think it’s their constitutional and moral duty to directly govern the city. Chaffetz falls solidly in the latter camp, what with his activism against same-sex marriage and medical marijuana, to name but a few of his attempts to exert authority over us. The city honestly doesn’t need a guy who believes the Founding Fathers imbued him with royal powers to sit atop the main subcommittees which deals with the District for the next two years.

Here’s to hoping for a early holiday present.