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Joe the Plumber case still dripping [Half-dozen agencies access records of Ohio man.....]
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Posted on 11/14/2008 2:10:12 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Joe the Plumber case still dripping

Half-dozen agencies access records of Ohio man

By Dennis J. Willard Beacon Journal staff writer

Published on Friday, Nov 14, 2008

The election is over, but the Joe the Plumber case is not.

Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles said his office is now looking at a half-dozen agencies that accessed state records on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.

The Beacon Journal has learned that, in addition to the Department of Job and Family Services, two other state offices — the Ohio Department of Taxation and Ohio Attorney General Nancy Rogers — conducted database searches of Joe the Plumber.

Wurzelbacher became an instant celebrity after he asked Barack Obama a series of questions in his Toledo driveway about the Democrat's tax policies.

In the third debate between Obama and Republican John McCain on Oct. 15, the candidates referred to Joe the Plumber more than 20 times.

The next day, the taxation department conducted two separate searches of a database of liens for unpaid taxes that were certified to the Ohio Attorney General's Office for collection.

John Kohlstrand, a taxation department spokesman, said he is prohibited from talking about individual taxpayers, but he confirmed that the databases were checked.

The searches were done to determine whether a lien placed against the individual was appropriate and whether it remained unpaid or not, Kohlstrand said.

(Excerpt) Read more at ohio.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brownshirtleft; brownshirts; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; donutwatch; joetheplumber; nifongism; orwelliannightmare; partisanwitchhunt; ratcrime; shadowgovernment; waronjoe
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To: Sub-Driver

More firin’ to be done then...


21 posted on 11/14/2008 2:24:54 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Sub-Driver

Freedom of speech? Not any more.

One of those little changes coming our way.


22 posted on 11/14/2008 2:25:15 PM PST by neutrino (Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.(173))
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To: Sub-Driver
Millions of stay at home Republicans along with the 20% Conservative Christians(?) that voted for Obama threw Joe the Plumber and other Americans under the bus.
23 posted on 11/14/2008 2:25:18 PM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: Sub-Driver

They are so successful in the ‘Al Capone’ strategy that they think they can leverage the tax laws against ordinary citizens with the balls to ask a simple question to a stink’n politician. I’m absolutely disgusted with my government. Its ultimate fall will be my ultimate joy!


24 posted on 11/14/2008 2:25:22 PM PST by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: KarlInOhio
Right now are the investigations for misuse of state databases and computers for political purposes. At least one person is on leave (unfortunately with pay) for now.

how? and who was misusing? joe? or the DNC?

25 posted on 11/14/2008 2:26:30 PM PST by MetalHeadConservative35 (My country right or wrong,To support her when right,To right her when wrong - Stocksthatgoup)
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To: Sub-Driver

If this doesn’t ring alarm bells in American minds concerning which party represents more of a threat to their individual liberty then I will be forced to conclude that HL Mencken was right after all.


26 posted on 11/14/2008 2:26:36 PM PST by skeeter (Its Barry's fault)
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To: pissant

I believe such went on for 8 years of Clinton and Emmanuel was involved.


27 posted on 11/14/2008 2:27:40 PM PST by elpadre (nation)
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To: Verginius Rufus

did you see that pic of nancy pelosi and her hugo chavez’ buds in the wsj?

all the ladies were dressed in revolutionary scarlet red, as michelle obamao was.


28 posted on 11/14/2008 2:28:37 PM PST by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Have you seen Joe the Plumber's new website? It's still a work in progress, I guess, so I didn't think it deserved a thread of its own to post it.
29 posted on 11/14/2008 2:29:31 PM PST by Daffynition ("A gov't big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This needs to be driven into the ground. Government lackeys using government databases for political gain should result in jail time.


30 posted on 11/14/2008 2:30:31 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Sub-Driver
One name to remember when leftist leaders and their minions fear being embarrassed:

Richard Jewell (1962-2007)

Murdered by the United States government.

31 posted on 11/14/2008 2:32:49 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Accessing electronic information=Digital Nazi Brown Shirts


32 posted on 11/14/2008 2:33:11 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: MetalHeadConservative35
how? and who was misusing? joe? or the DNC?

A number of state employees just happened to search their databases for Joe's name, not that it had aaaaaanything to do with Joe's recent questioning of The One. It was all standard procedure. The one who was nailed with a suspension donated thousands of dollars to Obama's campaign, but she tried to claim that they always check on people who came into sudden public view. That was the lamest excuse ever used. The only thing close to that is a requirement that if someone wins $600 or more in the lottery they get checked for unpaid child support, and that is written into the law.

33 posted on 11/14/2008 2:34:14 PM PST by KarlInOhio (11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
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To: Sub-Driver

The national media is silent... biding it’s time...
waiting for an opening to portray these employees as victims of a ‘kind of Spanish Inquisition’.


34 posted on 11/14/2008 2:34:51 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: Sub-Driver

bookmark.


35 posted on 11/14/2008 2:36:22 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: MNDude
Done all the time ~ alas to little avail. We are so pure and clean and nice there's little the Democrat apparatchiks can get on us, or if they do, we just shurg and say "so what". I always add that "hypocrisy is an issue for Moslems and Leftwingtards. Real men don't worry about it."
36 posted on 11/14/2008 2:36:43 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: buccaneer81

How did Richard Jewell die?


37 posted on 11/14/2008 2:38:35 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Sub-Driver
Wurzelbacher became an instant celebrity after he asked Barack Obama a series of questions in his Toledo driveway about the Democrat's tax policies.

It should read, "a series of TOUGH questions". The only thing we can walk away with for sure is the certainty of knowing MSM journalists will never have the problem Joe had - no one's going to investigate that bunch for tough questions.

38 posted on 11/14/2008 2:38:46 PM PST by GOPJ (Election Day... liberals who had spent years praising McCain all voted for Obama - Coulter)
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To: MNDude
"how tough would it be for those guys to do an ip address check on all Freepers."

I'd say they wouldn't even need IPs. Just using google, and searching on someone that has been around here for a long time and posted allot, I think after analyzing thousands of posts by a user, one could get a pretty good idea where someone lives and who they are.

39 posted on 11/14/2008 2:39:01 PM PST by KoRn
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To: griswold3

We should have home swaps if the gov ever starts checking out the FReepers. It would be kind of like going underground, but without all the hardship.

By the way, I require a whirlpool.


40 posted on 11/14/2008 2:39:04 PM PST by keats5 ("I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing."- Rudy)
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