The Associated Press answers the burning question: Who is 'Joe the Plumber'?
He is Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio man looking to buy a plumbing business who came to symbolize the notion of 'spreading the wealth' in Wednesday night's third and final presidential debate.The Trail, a daily diary of the 2008 campaign published on WaPo reports: reports:
Joe the Plumber is not exactly a plumber, he's "not even close" to making the kind of money that would result in higher taxes from Democrat Barack Obama's proposals and has such an aversion to taxes that a lien was filed against him by the state of Ohio.So what do you think about Joe?
Such is the whirlwind of information that has come out about Joe Wurzelbacher of Holland, Ohio, since Republican John McCain made him famous in last night's debate. McCain mentioned him more than 20 times to use him as a symbol of hard-working Americans who would be hurt by Obama's tax policies. Obama and Wurzelbacher met earlier in the week in Toledo, where Wurzelbacher said Obama's plans to raise taxes on those making $250,000 a year or more would penalize him in his plans to buy the plumbing business for which he works. [...]
Wurzelbacher, 34, told the Associated Press that he was not a licensed plumber. Because he works for a small company that does residential work, he said, he doesn't need to be licensed.
Wurzelbacher, whose legal name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, owes the state of Ohio $1,182 in personal income taxes, according to tax records that show a lien for that amount filed against him in January 2007.
4 comments:
Doesn't pay his taxes? Not surprising. He's supposedly related to Charles Keating.
-Doug in Oakland
That's the rumor, anyway.
Joe the Plumber? More like Joe the Keating Family Operative
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/joe-plumber-more-joe-keating-family-
Joe the Plumber aka Charles Keating's Relative
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/tm/2008/10/joe-the-plumber-aka-charles-ke.php
'Joe the Plumber' - New McCain Ad
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/10/16/joe-the-plumber-new-mccain-ad/
Of course, the media started to look into Joe. There was an unfortunate detour into retractionville, as it was erroneously reported that Joe was related to Charles Keating.
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/10/16/joe-the-plumber-or-not-a-chronology/
And at DailyKos, they're trying to figure out if he's part of the Charles Keating (5) family.
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/another_vetting_problem_joe_the_plumber_not_registered_to_vote_101608/
I like you running plumbing ads in the left margin under "Google Ads". Very clever . . . uh NOT! Hail to the Redskins!
Another tool for the repug party, just like Palin herself. These people have no shame, and no respect for truth or the American people.
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