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'Joe the Plumber' says he has no plumbing license (GASP!!)
StarTribune ^ | 10/16/08 | John Seewer/AP

Posted on 10/16/2008 11:26:20 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Joe the Plumber said Thursday he doesn't have a license and doesn't need one. Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, the nickname Republican John McCain bestowed on him during Wednesday's presidential debate, said he works for a small plumbing company that does residential work. Because he works for someone else, he doesn't need a license, he said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: joetheplumber; mccain; obama; ossociatedpress; spreadthewealth
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To: calex59
The average person (like me) did NOT know that. This is nothing more than a smear--

and that smear will work with many people.

As the old saying goes, "If you throw enough mud, some of that mud WILL stick, and the mud that DOES stick,,,

is very, very, very hard to remove."

101 posted on 10/16/2008 11:52:57 AM PDT by stockstrader (VOTE DEMOCRATIC--it's so much easier than thinking.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Oh wow, they are going to do a cavity search on this poor guy before it’s over.


102 posted on 10/16/2008 11:54:10 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: macamadamia

“Yeah, they’re outraged about a plumber’s license, but don’t give a Mr. Hanky about a presidential candidate’s birth certificate.”

Then there is his entire resume that can fit on a 3”X3” Post-it note.


103 posted on 10/16/2008 11:55:16 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (GO SOX! Squish the Fish!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The libs are basically screaming “Kill him!”


104 posted on 10/16/2008 11:56:49 AM PDT by gotribe (The right pick!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Joe the Plumber doesn't have a license?

Let's see Obama's official Birth Certificate...

105 posted on 10/16/2008 11:57:01 AM PDT by Gritty (The Democrat Party is a poxed whore for whom no condom is thick enough. It's a death trip-Vanderleun)
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To: beaversmom

All the smearing that is going on makes me wonder what the left has on Bob the Builder.


106 posted on 10/16/2008 11:57:29 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: wideawake

Why the idea of licensed plumber?

Who is the body that would issue such a license?

Ditto for electrician, carpenter, etc.

These are not high knowledge requirement jobs. There’s a certain skill, but a deep risk either.

Not the same as going to an MD.


107 posted on 10/16/2008 11:58:13 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (I will not vote for Obama not because he is black, but because he is RED)
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To: pepsionice

Exactly...the one who pulls the permits for the job needs to be licensed. Now if he were to do moonlighting and pull your own permits than you would need to be licensed. The only 2 states I know of where you can do business without a license is PA and WVA. Unless of course you want to do government work. Residential contractors in these states don’t need one. Now every state is different but the rules usually apply state to state when it comes to licensed contractors. Again, you pull the permits on the job you need a license.

There are tons of cases where a general contractor (who holds the license) will hire say their relatives or something to help out when needed. If every single person needed a license it would be chaos. I know in Ohio you need to have at least 5years of plumbing experience to even apply for a license.


108 posted on 10/16/2008 11:59:53 AM PDT by rtsimon
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Has anyone checked Angie’$ Li$t?


109 posted on 10/16/2008 12:00:43 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: CatOwner; Rush Limbaugh
Well Rush just stole my idea and closed his show with it. STOP STEALING MY STUFF, RUSH!!!!

Or at least extend an invitation to call into your show and give Palin-like common sense observation of politics. :)

110 posted on 10/16/2008 12:02:31 PM PDT by rintense (Chuck Norris wears Sarah Palin pajamas.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

So Obama’s thugs are attacking a guy for not having a plumbing license. I guess all of us without plumbing licenses will just have to vote for McCain.


111 posted on 10/16/2008 12:02:58 PM PDT by Glorious Liberty
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I predict Joe the Plumber has provided SNL with their opening skit, unless Fey shows up to do Palin again.

Oh, come to think of it I guess they will do their “Thursday SNL” thing tonight perhaps.


112 posted on 10/16/2008 12:03:06 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: MrB

I’ll tell everyone how I’m voting. I’m voting for Joe the Plumber. ;-)


113 posted on 10/16/2008 12:03:20 PM PDT by spotbust1 (Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
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To: All

Humor break: Vid of talented teen: http://www.climatechangefraud.com/content/blogcategory/18/244/


114 posted on 10/16/2008 12:04:34 PM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: Gritty

Great idea.

Lets get Joe on TV.
He can say “I do not have a plumbers license, but I do have a BORN IN THE USA birth certificate , and I would like to see Senator Obama’s birth certificate.”


115 posted on 10/16/2008 12:04:41 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I AM SPARTICU...uh....JOE THE PLUMBER!


116 posted on 10/16/2008 12:05:20 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: woodbutcher1963

What the MSM is trying to do is smear him as a “Scab”.


117 posted on 10/16/2008 12:05:45 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: GnuHere

SNL would need to try to find someone intelligent enough to play Joe the Plumber.....


118 posted on 10/16/2008 12:08:31 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

He doesn’t have to be licensed if he’s working for a licensed plumber, that’s how it works there in Ohio. He never said he was a licensed plumber.

AP is a bunch of ignorant elitists. BTW, the plumbers’ union can go flush themselves.


119 posted on 10/16/2008 12:11:31 PM PDT by madison10
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To: OCCASparky

This from the same people so “concerned” with privacy rights being abrogated by the Patriot Act- what a bunch of hypocrites!


120 posted on 10/16/2008 12:11:56 PM PDT by pineybill (`)
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