Posted on 10/17/2008 6:04:32 PM PDT by machogirl
Joe the Plumber's' AZ driver license suspended Comments 6 | Recommend 4 Daniel Newhauser, For the Tribune
A plumbing license is not the only license "Joe the Plumber" is having troubles with.
The former Mesa resident has a suspended driver's license and outstanding court fines in Arizona, according to Mesa Municipal Court records.
"Joe," whose real name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, was referred to more than 20 times by Republican Sen. John McCain in Wednesday night's presidential debate for questioning Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's tax policy.
The man portrayed by McCain to be the typical, hardworking American revealed this week that he actually does not have a plumbing license, and now court records show he should not have a driver's license either, making it potentially even harder for him to get to work.
Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.
America's new political icon, who owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.
Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.
After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.
Nevertheless, Wurzelbacher's driver's license is still valid in Ohio, according to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and was renewed as recently as May 2005. Ohio law requires a license to be renewed every four years, meaning Wurzelbacher likely obtained an Ohio license in 2001, one year after having his Arizona license suspended.
With a suspended license in one state, it should not be possible to get a new license in another, said Cydney DeModica, spokeswoman for the Arizona MVD.
The only way "Joe the Plumber" could have slipped through the cracks is a clerical error in which his driving records were not entered into the Problem Driver Pointer System, the national database of information about people with a checkered driving past, said Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles spokeswoman Lindsay Komlanc.
Komlanc added if the Ohio BMV were to receive the information, appropriate action could be taken, including suspension of his Ohio license.
Media is trying to destroy a man.
It will backfire on the MSM and Obama because people already saw this smear against Palin, but this time it is just a regular citizen like theme.
They are out for BLOOD. The humble Plumber has pulled the curtain for all to see the Magnificent Oz for what he really is.
A Socialist Marxist.
And they will try to DESTROY him for exposing Obama.
Senator Obama, let’s talk about Sen Edward Kennedy’s driving record, shall we?
Let them keep attacking him.
It will backfire...although, I wish he had paid his AZ tickets!
More Wile E Coyote media tactics like they tried against Palin. This b.s. will similarly blow up in their faces.
Obama goes to this guy's neighborhood, gets asked a tough question and he is torn apart like a terrorist.
Something tells me the senior senator from AZ will pick up Joe’s fines.
Has anybody set up a defense fund for Joe the Plumber yet?
as the Puma’s said we know the Joe the Plumber” in two days than Obama in two years.
Obama Pays Parking Tickets 17 Years Late
Thursday, March 8, 2007
BOSTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harvard Law School in the late 1980s. He also got a healthy stack of parking tickets, most of which he never paid.
The Illinois Senator shelled out $375 in January _ two weeks before he officially launched his presidential campaign _ to finally pay for 15 outstanding parking tickets and their associated late fees.
As Sarah has said..."JOIN US IN THIS FIGHT"!!!!
I thought this was a joke when I saw the headline on the web.
Trying to get the guys DL stripped.
The same people that don’t have a problem with fake id’s, id theft, are trying to destroy an American citizen for having an opinion.
This is an extension of the “missouri doctrine” of the obama campaign.
When’s Obama’s anal exam coming? Hahahaaaa...
Wow. I’ve never seen the left so scared of one plumber!
This is amazing!!
So what if his license is suspended in AZ...Ohio has different laws...Big deal...a ticket...wow!!
I’d like to check into some of these crucifiers lives...
Compare the interest in Joe the Plumber by the media — sound trucks outside his house, delving into his state records, looking for his plumbing license — with the total lack of effort shown by the media into Obama’s terrorist associates, Mr. and Mrs. Ayers. No matter that the pefesser was a proud, unrepetant bomber and his wife was on the FBI Most Wanted List — how many sound trucks have been parked outside THEIR home, how many articles have been written about their background. Don’t recall Joe the Plumber being the sponsor of McCain or serving with him on a board when he doled out hundreds of millions of dollars. I just seem to remember that all Joe did was ask a simple question — obviously its gotten under the skin of Obama and his servants in the media.
Let's see how far this goes, my friends...within a week, there will be a "Joe the Plumber" site, with his hospital birth certificate on full display....
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