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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: Redleg Duke

“Typical Obama...no one is too small to be offed if perceived as a threat.”

We are all Joe the Plumbers now : |


161 posted on 10/16/2008 12:46:51 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: SwankyC

They are out to destroy the poor man because he isn’t a filthy corrupt democrat like Obama/Rezko.


162 posted on 10/16/2008 12:47:25 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: Gritty

Great Point! lol


163 posted on 10/16/2008 12:47:26 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (God Bless Sarah Palin and her Family.)
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To: ansel12

I see where you are going. However, when you say “Call a plumber” you aren’t going to call someone who works for a plumber, it refers to a plumbing contractor. Plumbing contractors need to be licensed. Guys who work for plumbing contractors (apprentices and journeymen) don’t necessarily need to be licensed, you’re correct. Technically, however, journeymen and apprentice plumbers aren’t yet “plumbers”. It’s a technicality, i know.

So, in California, and any state that I’ve dealt with, plumbers (plumbing contractors) do need to be licensed.


164 posted on 10/16/2008 12:48:47 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: proudtobeanamerican1

Too bad Joe isn’t a former bombing murdering terrorsist, then he could hire Obama and they could dole out millions together.


165 posted on 10/16/2008 12:49:12 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Hello! I heard his phone number is on Huffington Post. We need to get this to him! He is going on Hucklebee I think.


166 posted on 10/16/2008 12:49:25 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (God Bless Sarah Palin and her Family.)
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To: ansel12

So you are a licensed plumber in california. Thank you.


167 posted on 10/16/2008 12:49:40 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Ouderkirk
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.

Plumbers also lay gas lines. An incompetently installed gas line might blow up your house and kill everyone inside. Plus, you want to be sure that the guy knows enough to not use toxic sealing materials on water pipes that bring in drinking water.

168 posted on 10/16/2008 12:50:24 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: Williams
Oh you betcha.

Go google any of the news stories on Joe and read the comments. Everything centers around What or Whom Joe is and have NOTHING to do with the entire point of why we know who Joe is - he made Obama reveal his Marxist beliefs, hook line and sinker.

169 posted on 10/16/2008 12:50:45 PM PDT by SwankyC (Paris Hilton 08 - I'm voting for 2 small boobies instead of 2 huge boobs)
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To: ansel12

Sorry, got mixed up in the quoting. Everyone quotes others differently and sometimes it becomes confusing. Please forgive.


170 posted on 10/16/2008 12:51:15 PM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Look up Chester Davenport to see how beneficial just having the right “credentials” are.

His hiring by Envirotest led to a minority set-aside position that was leveraged into the largest emissions testing firm in the U.S.

You see, Chester was black at the time.

He has now morphed into a real position at Ameritech - see Black Enterprise in Business.


171 posted on 10/16/2008 12:51:15 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
BTW, am I the only one who finds it to be 'stranger than fiction' that the AP reporter who wrote the story about "Joe the Plumber" is named "John Seewer"?

Ya know, with 'John' as in toilet, and "Seewer" as in being really close to "sewer", it's almost too convenient to have him penning stories on the plumbing beat, isn't it...

172 posted on 10/16/2008 12:52:58 PM PDT by Zeppo (Every mighty mild... seventies child... Beats me (Metric - Combat Baby))
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To: ansel12

I sure as heck don’t ask my plumber for his licence when he walks in the door. He had been here three times and does good work! I bet he is smart enough to vote for McCain too.


173 posted on 10/16/2008 12:53:19 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (God Bless Sarah Palin and her Family.)
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To: LakeLady
Do his pants hang low while his butt cheeks wiggle to and ‘fro? Then he’s a plumber and didn’t lie to us!!!

I think I saw his cousin, Frank the Plumber, in the grocery store today. He apparently forgot his belt because I (and everybody else in the store) could see his big smilin' butt clearly. It was very funny, and many of us ordinary shoppers had bit of a smirk on our faces. While I'd expect this out of a youngster, this guy was around 50 years old. I wonder if he knew he was showing off...

174 posted on 10/16/2008 12:54:02 PM PDT by meyer (http://neverfindout.org/ - check out some good ads.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

“I see where you are going. However, when you say “Call a plumber” you aren’t going to call someone who works for a plumber, it refers to a plumbing contractor. Plumbing contractors need to be licensed. Guys who work for plumbing contractors (apprentices and journeymen) don’t necessarily need to be licensed, you’re correct. Technically, however, journeymen and apprentice plumbers aren’t yet “plumbers”. It’s a technicality, i know.

So, in California, and any state that I’ve dealt with, plumbers (plumbing contractors) do need to be licensed.”


That is a bunch of jibberish, plumbers are the guys that work as plumbers at plumbing businesses or that make their living as plumbers.

If you start a business then you need a C36, unless you keep it below $500.00 per job, then you don’t need a license at all.


175 posted on 10/16/2008 12:56:13 PM PDT by ansel12 (America's favorite baby boomer, Sarah Barracuda. Hell, she's a natural-born world-shaker.)
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To: ZX12R
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176 posted on 10/16/2008 12:59:23 PM PDT by ZX12R
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To: ansel12

No, not jibberish, that’s the way it is.

You claimed plumbers dont’ need to be licensed in california. That’s just not a factual statement. If you had said people working as plumbers for a licensed contractor don’t need a license, i’d wholeheartedly agree, but they statement you made, as you phrased it, was wrong.

More importantly, does Joe the plumber, the topic of the thread, need a license as the MSM is trying to make it sound he does, to work for his boss? NO! Not by ohio law.


177 posted on 10/16/2008 12:59:50 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: meyer

At 50 and above they don’t even know how to find their fannies, let alone whether they are showing them off!!!
hehehehehe


178 posted on 10/16/2008 12:59:54 PM PDT by LakeLady (I am a Female Alpha Dog Activist!! I hunt & tree demonRATS! THEN I bite!)
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To: wideawake
I’ve given up on people picking up on my dry sense of humor.

Sorry. But there are a lot of people who are honestly confused by the Ohio law. Including, it would seem, most of the media -- who are congenitally incapable of performing elementary research.

179 posted on 10/16/2008 1:01:56 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Old Professer

So, we all chip in 5 bucks for the owner’s license? We can’t let Obama destroy him.


180 posted on 10/16/2008 1:02:40 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (God Bless Sarah Palin and her Family.)
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