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'Joe the plumber' once lived in Alaska
adn.com ^ | 10/16/2008 | Kyle Hopkins

Posted on 10/16/2008 6:48:42 PM PDT by Xth Legion

The star of Wednesday night's presidential debate used to live in Alaska.

And for once we're not talking Gov. Sarah Palin.

Long before he was "Joe the plumber," Joe Wurzelbacher lived in North Pole and Eielson Air Force Base, according to Alaska public records. Family members say Wurzelbacher came to the state in the mid-1990s and stayed about four years - long enough to have the son who can be seen standing next to him in the now famous clip of Wurzelbacher grilling Sen. Barack Obama about taxes.

"If Joe had his way, he would have stayed up here," said Kelly Morrison, of Anchorage. Her sister, Jennifer, is Joe's ex-wife.

Morrison remembers getting the call when the couple gave birth to a son in the Fairbanks area roughly 13 years ago.

"Jennifer had called up to Joe to tell him that she was in labor and Joe made it down the stairs just in time, his baby was delivered on the wooden floor in their home," Morrison said.

"That was a huge thing for us ... we joked with them and said, 'OK, you did it the Alaskan way,'" said Morrison, who was living Outside at the time. She later married an Alaskan and lives here in state.

(Excerpt) Read more at community.adn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; alaska; joetheplumber; wurzelbacher
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To: brytlea

I know! Isn’t that scary!


21 posted on 10/16/2008 7:47:00 PM PDT by beagleone
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To: hoosiermama

“Did Palin try to fire him?”

No. But Piper may have pressured someone else to fire him.


22 posted on 10/16/2008 7:54:28 PM PDT by redk
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To: Xth Legion

I read the story from the site but to me the site looked a little strange. Is this an alternative newspaper in Alaska, perhaps a paper that is a scandal sheet or similar to the Advocate type paper which is liberal rag that is put out in the Northeast? Just asking because the writing and presentation was odd, to me, but that may be because my radar is up this political season.
I agree with you that the time spent to find out about Joe the Plumber, should be spent on Obama’s past.


23 posted on 10/16/2008 7:54:44 PM PDT by mojo114
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To: jan in Colorado
The MSM and the Obama campaign have just handed McCain an issue on a golden platter. McCain needs to rush to the defense of Joe the working man and show how the meanspirited MSM and the Obama campaign practice the politics of personal destruction against someone who attended an Obama event and asked him a pointed question.

If the McCain campaign is too stupid to realize what an opportunity this is, they deserve to lose.

24 posted on 10/16/2008 7:59:11 PM PDT by kabar
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To: hoosiermama

How many wolves did he bag from an airplane?


25 posted on 10/16/2008 7:59:34 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (God Bless Sarah Palin and her Family.)
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To: Blogger

. . but, what is his connection to Kevin Bacon?


26 posted on 10/16/2008 8:12:32 PM PDT by Twinkie (DEMOCRATS ARE SOCIALISTS / COMMUNISTS . . .)
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To: kabar

You are right. To be continued...


27 posted on 10/16/2008 8:14:54 PM PDT by jan in Colorado (For Barack Hussein Obama TRUTH FILE see my homepage!)
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To: mojo114

It is the website for the Anchorage Daily News.


28 posted on 10/16/2008 8:49:37 PM PDT by Xth Legion (Peace is a great alternative, after you've won!)
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To: redk
But Piper may have pressured someone else to fire him.

Piper applied pressure to fire a plumber?

29 posted on 10/16/2008 8:52:16 PM PDT by Petronski (Please pray for the success of McCain and Palin. Every day, whenever you pray.)
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To: Xth Legion

O M G

COuld Joe the Plumber be

An Air Force Vet????????

I’ll have to check if he worked with the 354th CE Sqdn.

BTW if he lived on EAFB, he would have to have been active duty, the housing list is just too long otherwise....

Being a vet would also explain a lot

Not backing down with His Holinessness, willing to work, wanting to get ahead for his family......


30 posted on 10/16/2008 9:05:20 PM PDT by ASOC (Have a nice day, just don't have it around me (bumper sticker))
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To: Xth Legion

The comments on that post are nuts.
I’m so sick of the evil that is the Anchorage Daily News.
It’s all Palin hate, all the time. And, doubly so in the comments.


31 posted on 10/16/2008 9:18:55 PM PDT by FreeRadical (Pray. Make Babies. Teach. Repeat.)
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To: ASOC
He said he was born in the Toledo area, lived until he was 13 in the Florida Panhandle area, went to Springfield High School, and then entered the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed at an Air Force base in Alaska from 1992 until 1995. He said he was honorably discharged.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081016/NEWS09/810160418

And then this:

Mr. Wurzelbacher also said he lived in Arizona from 1997 until 2000.

Palin's and McCain's home states!

32 posted on 10/16/2008 9:44:23 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: kabar

Joe did not attend an obama event. He was playing football with his son on his front lawn when the one and his goons intruded on his space for a photo op. The one stepped in it big time.


33 posted on 10/16/2008 9:47:36 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: lowbridge

God does work in mysterious ways.


34 posted on 10/16/2008 9:48:39 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Xth Legion
"paid a $76 fine in Fairbanks court for speeding"

AHA!! Now we've got 'im, what a white trash lowlife says the Mediascum......

/sarcasm

So now we learn that the Mediascum have been smearing a VETERAN. How many more honors can the Mediascum add to their honor roll of achievement in this election cycle?

35 posted on 10/16/2008 9:55:48 PM PDT by Enchante (America: has Obama told you about his "New Party" that sought to spread SOCIALISM??)
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To: lowbridge
Thanks my FRiend

The “Blade” is one of those walk on glass rather than read kinda rags...

36 posted on 10/16/2008 9:58:28 PM PDT by ASOC (Have a nice day, just don't have it around me (bumper sticker))
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To: kabar
"If the McCain campaign is too stupid to realize what an opportunity this is, they deserve to lose."

Yes, the Obamanators and the Mediascum have been in hyperdrive, busily savaging the life of a good, solid working-class American and veteran to further their filthy aims. If the McCain camp doesn't make this blow up big time for the Obamanation then they will have squandered a tremendous opportunity while failing to defend a real American who is not bitter and clinging, just fed up with socialist b.s.

One simple point: the MSM has done more in 24 hours to "vet" Joe-the-Plumber than most of them have ever done with Obambi in 20+ months..... and they've gone after JtP with malice and depravity, trashing the privacy of an ordinary citizen merely because he dared to question the Obamessiah.

37 posted on 10/16/2008 10:01:09 PM PDT by Enchante (America: has Obama told you about his "New Party" that sought to spread SOCIALISM??)
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To: mojo114

The Anchorage Daily News is part of the McClatchey newspaper family. Same as the Sacramento Bee.
Definintely left leaning, but not considered an “alternative” paper.


38 posted on 10/16/2008 10:39:50 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Dallas59

LOL...well you know out of all the contenders Sarah Palin has the most direct bloodline to the Stuarts due to being related to Princess Diana. And we all know the candidate with the “best bloodline” always wins. C’mon don’t you think it’s weird that Barack and Cheney are related!!

/sarc..
well just a bit


39 posted on 10/16/2008 10:44:49 PM PDT by TrishaSC
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To: beagleone

And a guy on Foxnews this morning was trying to deflect attention back to Joe! Obama does NOT want to talk about what he said.


40 posted on 10/17/2008 7:34:10 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Keep the change!)
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