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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: ButThreeLeftsDo

Please, Lord - let the dems go after this and dig themselves farther in a hole. PLEASE


41 posted on 10/16/2008 11:35:29 AM PDT by NetSurfer (BO stinks.)
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To: rtsimon

The media guys crying about this....have no idea how the license business works...thats very obvious. Only the owners have to be a real licensed guy. If you figure the yearly license fee the state charges....you really don’t need the license unless you buy the business....then you face the Obama “solution”.


42 posted on 10/16/2008 11:35:36 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Sorry Joe, we are all going to hear about your sex life, your drinking habits, your driving record, your taxes and what your kids did last month.

Joe, you are about to be Palinized and Borked.


43 posted on 10/16/2008 11:35:41 AM PDT by newnhdad (Naval Aviator or "community organizer", you make the call.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Hey AP, wake me up when the sky falls.


44 posted on 10/16/2008 11:35:57 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

He’s an “employee” who works for someone else. His american dream is to work for himself (for which he would need a license). The socialist media can’t quite understand that.


45 posted on 10/16/2008 11:36:49 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA (..)
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To: wideawake
Why did he lie to us?”

He didn't. Under Ohio trades law, only the proprietor of a plumbing business must have a license. The owner then assumes liability for the work done by his employees -- who don't need a license.

In Ohio, the license is essentially about accepting liability, not about proven plumbing skills. It ensures that he hires people who know how to plumb.

46 posted on 10/16/2008 11:36:58 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Domandred
Is Joe the first regular guy right off the street that managed to get in a question on Obama?

Seeing as how the usual question Obama gets from the Round Heeled Media is "Explain to us, again, how wonderful you are!...", this may be the first hard question Obama has gotten in this campaign. And he blew it.

47 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:01 AM PDT by gridlock (Anybody who advocates robbing Peter to pay Paul can count on the enthusiastic support of Paul.)
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To: newnhdad

I think you may be right? WOW.


48 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:22 AM PDT by GoCards
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

One of my sons has a friend who is an assistant plumber. Getting a license is very hard, because it’s a closed union that doesn’t want to admit too many people.

Anyway, he works as a plumber’s assistant, and if he puts in enough time he may one day be able to get his own license.


49 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:22 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Texas4ever

I was born in a hospital. That doesn’t make me a doctor.


50 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:35 AM PDT by llevrok (Milton Friedman! Please come home!!!)
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To: mass55th
"As he leaned against the Dodge Durango SUV parked in his driveway..."

And he probably drinks beer leaning against the bed of his truck while talking to his buddies after work.

GASP!

51 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:37 AM PDT by TheThinker (It is the natural tendency of government to gravitate towards tyranny.)
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To: NetSurfer
Please, Lord - let the dems go after this and dig themselves farther in a hole. PLEASE

Amen.
52 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:37 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
McCain needs to make and ad with the following them:

The mainstream media is now spending their time attacking Joe the Plumber instead of questioning Barack Obama's involvement with Acorn and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

53 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:38 AM PDT by rintense (Chuck Norris wears Sarah Palin pajamas.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Big deal...
I r a cumputur exspurts bkause i am on teh inernetz.
54 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:38 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Just Say NObama!)
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To: petitfour

LOL! ASKING the reporters if THEY have a license!!! HAHAHHAHAHHAHHA


55 posted on 10/16/2008 11:38:03 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Redleg Duke

Obama does not want to be President. Obama wants to be KING. He will stop at nothing to achieve his goal.


56 posted on 10/16/2008 11:38:03 AM PDT by just me (JELLY BEANS AND WINKS...)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The relevant state law:

CHAPTER 4740: CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LICENSING BOARD 4740.01 Construction industry licensing board definitions. As used in this chapter:

(A) “License” means a license the Ohio construction industry licensing board issues to an individual as a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor, refrigeration contractor, electrical contractor, plumbing contractor, or hydronics contractor.

(B) “Contractor” means any individual or business entity that satisfies both of the following:

(1) For compensation, directs, supervises, or has responsibility for the means, method, and manner of construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance on a construction project with respect to one or more trades and who offers, identifies, advertises, or otherwise holds out or represents that the individual or business entity is permitted or qualified to perform, direct, supervise, or have responsibility for the means, method, and manner of construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance with respect to one or more trades on a construction project;

(2) Performs or employs tradespersons who perform construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance on a construction project with respect to the contractor’s trades.

(C) “Licensed trade” means a trade performed by a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor, a refrigeration contractor, an electrical contractor, a plumbing contractor, or a hydronics contractor.

(D) “Tradesperson” means an individual employed by a contractor who engages in construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance of buildings or structures without assuming responsibility for the means, method, or manner of that construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance.

(E) “Construction project” means a construction project involving a building or structure subject to Chapter 3781. of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under that chapter, but not an industrialized unit or a residential building as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code.

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4740

57 posted on 10/16/2008 11:38:33 AM PDT by mojito
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

HAHA

They’re skeeered!!


58 posted on 10/16/2008 11:38:45 AM PDT by babydubya1981 (Homeschooling Moms for McCain/Palin 08)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The libs just don’t get it...

They went apecrap attacking Palin and it destroyed them in the polls...

Now they are going to go apecrap over Joe and its going to destroy them again in the polls...

They just can’t help being the hateful petty people they are....

Evil eating their own once again.


59 posted on 10/16/2008 11:39:00 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Leftist idiocy. I’ve had tv repairmen working for me. I have the master’s license; they don’t need one when they work for me. Only a Leftist Doofus would make this an issue.


60 posted on 10/16/2008 11:39:04 AM PDT by pabianice (Inexplicable and infuriating.)
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