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Toledo police clerk charged in Joe The Plumber snooping case (Working for a reporter!)
Michelle Malkin ^ | 10/28/2008

Posted on 10/28/2008 9:10:47 PM PDT by GVnana

Toledo police clerk charged in Joe The Plumber snooping case; Update: Snooper was doing a favor for a reporter; Joe may sue By Michelle Malkin • October 28, 2008 04:49 PM Scroll for updates…

Just in: The Toledo Police Department confirms that one of its records clerks has been charged with performing an unlawful search of Joe The Plumber’s records.

That makes two Ohio government employees identified in the snooping case. (Obama donor Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, approved a separate search. More are being investigated.)

WNWO reports:

Toledo Police have confirmed that a TPD records clerk is accused of performing an illegal search of information related to ‘Joe the Plumber.’

Julie McConnell, has been charged with Gross Misconduct for allegedly making an improper inquiry into a state database in search of information pertaining to Samuel Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16.

Wurzelbacher came under the spotlight after being spoken about during the final presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain.

The inquiry into Wurzelbacher’s record is a violation of department and state policy governing the use of the Law Enforcement Automated Data System. The clerk is under fire for making the inquiry for a non-law enforcement purpose.

McConnell was hired by the Toledo Police Department in April 1995 and assigned to the Investigative Services Bureau. A quick search of campaign donor records doesn’t turn up McConnell’s name.

Maggie Thurber wants to know: Who was McConnell digging up the information for?

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Update: Here’s your answer, Maggie.

The Toledo PD clerk was reportedly doing a favor for a reporter who wanted Wurzelbacher’s address.

More: Joe may sue.

Go for it, Joe.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2008; 200810; 20081016; antichrist; brownshirtleft; brownshirts; conspiracy; democrats; dirtytricks; elections; electionviolence; enemedia; joetheplumber; juliemcconnell; leo; mcconnell; nobama08; obama; oh2008; stalinistpress; toledooh; waronjoe; wurzelbacher
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To: GVnana
never before have I wanted to be a lawyer so bad so I could
Sue Baby Sue! (did I spell sue right? it looks weird.)
61 posted on 10/28/2008 10:55:37 PM PDT by Wonderama Mama (Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: politicalamity

Joe may find his work environment has changed to the point that he would be a fool not to ride the tiger and see where it leads. He certainly has every right to sue government employees who abuse their power to functionally repress his ability to express himself.

Hopefully he is getting some good advice.


62 posted on 10/28/2008 10:58:33 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: JennysCool

He needs to file it Thursday am.

He is Ohio’s “October Surprise”, and him filing suit against the police department, working for a reporter, would seal Ohio for McCain.


63 posted on 10/28/2008 11:06:18 PM PDT by Carling (I Am Joe the Plumber)
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To: Caper29

brilliant but the free play is to sue for lawyer costs, lost wages costs and ten dollars. Get the guilty verdicts and smile leavin the courthouse......on the way thru congress to the senate.

Plumbers, we crack but we don’t break !


64 posted on 10/28/2008 11:10:09 PM PDT by advertising guy ( CHARITY BEGINS AT HUT !)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder if TIM ROBBINS feels that "CHILL WIND of neighbor turning in neighbor" that he felt after the PATRIOT ACT was passed?

Nah! Don't thinks so. He is too busy writing his next speech about RACISM in America that he plans on giving sometime after Nov 4.

65 posted on 10/28/2008 11:16:39 PM PDT by PISANO
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Isn’t it? Obama went to him. He didn’t seek out any publicity. He was just living his life until the empty-suit walked up to him.

The obama-cult is ridiculous, and far worse, dangerous to a free America.


66 posted on 10/28/2008 11:21:28 PM PDT by kenth (Will Rogers never met Barack Obama.)
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To: Big_Monkey
This is a hate crime...war...it is moving from just petty crime to serious felony and it is only going to get worse if we do not vote to stop Marxism and the propaganda machine of the MSM and the Left...dims are corrupt to the bone!
67 posted on 10/28/2008 11:25:10 PM PDT by Turborules
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To: PISANO
First they went after Joe the Plumber,

Who will they go after next?

Will it be you or will it be me?

68 posted on 10/28/2008 11:25:28 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: GVnana

The clerk is an idiot as each of these searches is cataloged. If she accessed a database she wasn’t supposed to except in relation to official business, she’s toast.

Well, assuming the PD fires her.


69 posted on 10/28/2008 11:26:04 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama attended a muslim school, has a muslim name and a muslim father. Refute it.)
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To: mlocher
After hearing Newt tonight on H&C, better make it $139,999.

By the time the election happens, it will be $29.99.

Please God, tell me people aren't really this stupid.

I PRAY FOR HOPE AND CHANGE, I DON'T VOTE FOR IT.

70 posted on 10/28/2008 11:47:00 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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To: GVnana

I hope Joe sues.


71 posted on 10/28/2008 11:48:22 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Arizona Carolyn

When you get into that Hope and Change Karma, you just can’t help yourself.


72 posted on 10/28/2008 11:49:43 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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To: Roccus
Think FBI files, Linda Tripp, that Naval officer from Able Danger who appeared before Specter's committee....it's the way it's been for a looooong time.

Yep. Spineless Republicans have allowed Dems to be above the law long enough that most everyone just accepts it now.

73 posted on 10/28/2008 11:51:17 PM PDT by TChris (So many useful idiots...)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Sue the clerk

No, it was Julie the clerk.
74 posted on 10/29/2008 12:47:21 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: TYVets

> Are spies hung or do they face a firing squad?

Spies are hanged.


75 posted on 10/29/2008 3:10:18 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: leakinInTheBlueSea
...then repeat with the reporter and continue up the chain.

That would probably lead all the way up to David Axelrod.

I'm serious.

76 posted on 10/29/2008 3:34:19 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: politicalamity

In this case, Joe truly has a case of his rights being violated. Am I correct?

The Privacy Act of 1974
http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/privstat.htm


77 posted on 10/29/2008 3:50:07 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: freespirited
We all know that MSM reporters arent the sharpest crayons in the box, but not knowing how to use the phone book is dumber than I gave any of them credit for.

The clerk is lying... again! Of course a reporter could find Joe's address. I mean you had the whole press entourage following Obama when he stopped in from of Joe's house. The reporter did not want an address, the reporter wanted dirt (speeding tickets, etc).

78 posted on 10/29/2008 4:32:10 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (Welcome PUMAs!)
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To: GVnana

It’s a felony by the way


79 posted on 10/29/2008 4:33:40 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (There once was a dream called, "Hippy Beat Down." The mere whisper of if caused cops to cry.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Rather than debating the honest points that Joe raised with Obama, instead, the MSM decides to do character assassination against Joe. Rather than discuss the merits of the points Joe makes, instead, it’s decided to destroy this man’s reputation and ignore all of the legitimate policy points Joe raised......

Joe's experience, immediately following Sarah Palin's, shocking; breathtakingly contemptuous in it's eagerness to break the law by those who get paid to represent it, though nowhere near the ferocity leveled at her for not taking the small place the media and pathetic old pundits set aside for her, are symptomatic of a rapidly decaying culture.

Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto protrays the sort of couth instilled in the left.

80 posted on 10/29/2008 4:43:13 AM PDT by 4woodenboats (W T H !!! How long was I asleep? Where'd Capitalism run off to?)
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