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Joe the Plumber target of Arizona (his Drivers License is suspended)
east valley tribune ^ | 10/17/08 | Daniel Newhauser

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: brownshirtmedia; brownshirts; demsmearmachine; dontquestiontheone; election; enemedia; fascistmedia; joetheplumber; joetheplummer; leftwingconspiracy; marxismonparade; mccain; mediabias; stalinistpress; waronjoe; wurzelbacher
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To: Sacajaweau

In front of Ayers house?


101 posted on 10/17/2008 6:21:49 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache)
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To: LegalEagle61

Problem is the media’s attacks on Palin worked. Her unfavorables are near 50% and her favorables are below 50%. She’s not doing to well outside of the base.

I hope the American people realize if the media and Obama can do this to Joe the Plummer, they can do it to them.


102 posted on 10/17/2008 6:21:50 PM PDT by GeeMoney ("Stop Obama now, Fight McCain later.")
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To: machogirl

Incredible. We know more about this man’s past than we do Obama’s... and Joe isn’t even running for office.


103 posted on 10/17/2008 6:22:22 PM PDT by SaveTheChief (Chief Illiniwek (1926-2007))
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To: machogirl

Any regular American who is watching the left try to destroy this man and ISN’T outraged needs to pay better attention. No American should ever think they are immune from the abuses of these despicable people.

What was Joe’s crime? He asked a leftist a legitimate question. I have never seen the abuses of the left so broadly played out. WAKE UP America! The next time it WILL be you or someone you know.

...bet the left has their gulags already to go....


104 posted on 10/17/2008 6:22:35 PM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: TornadoAlley3

“Obama Pays Parking Tickets 17 Years Late”

LOL!!! Great find!!


105 posted on 10/17/2008 6:22:55 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: kimchi lover

If I got a 627$ ticket, I wouldn’t be able to afford it either!
The guy’s been through a divorce, raising a kid, doesn’t make alot of money. He’s made some mistakes but who hasn’t? I think it’s sad he opens his mouth and the press drags him through the mud and essentially is ruining his life.


106 posted on 10/17/2008 6:22:57 PM PDT by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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To: DCPatriot

I hope so too.
The more your Ave. American hears what the msm and the obama campaign/supporters are doing to savage a “potential voter”, the angrier the Ave. American will be at the Stalinist tactics.

Afraid of a plumber.


107 posted on 10/17/2008 6:23:38 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
$627.50??? For missing a red light and not having proof of insurance in the car? Wow.

Welcome to reality in America, the former land of the free and home of the brave.

108 posted on 10/17/2008 6:23:53 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: realcleanguy

I’m shocked. /s


109 posted on 10/17/2008 6:24:07 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache)
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To: rom
Will this ever end for Joe? My God, this is unbelievable! No one should have to go through for this. These liberal scum are beneath contempt, they're lower than scum.

I dare the liberal media to investigate me. I'll even help them out! I'll air out all my dirty laundry, and at the end of it, I'll call them all a bunch of marxists and thumb my nose at them.

110 posted on 10/17/2008 6:24:14 PM PDT by pctech
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To: TornadoAlley3; Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
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.

LOL! irony is so...ironic!

111 posted on 10/17/2008 6:24:15 PM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: machogirl

these hacks have no idea whether or not this info is out of date or accurate.....drive bys time to STFU


112 posted on 10/17/2008 6:24:21 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: machogirl

Obambi’s goostepping goons in the media hard at work. Imagine where we would be if they scruntinised Obama with at least half as much effort as they expend on Joe.

¡Viva Joe!


113 posted on 10/17/2008 6:25:21 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: bayliving

Here is a fund to help Joe pay his taxes.

http://www.1190kex.com/pages/pages/save_joe_the_plumber.php


114 posted on 10/17/2008 6:25:24 PM PDT by koraz
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To: LegalEagle61
I agree, it will backfire.

Zero has shown his real face and it ain't pretty.

People are actually seeing what Zero has in mind monetarily for
us besides his thugs who terrorize people. That alone should scare the hell out of anyone. The vote frauds all over the country. ACORN's mysteriously stolen computers. Stinks to high heaven.

America's Joe & Jane Blows have finally seen the evil in the face of Obamao.

WE WILL OVERCOME EVIL!

115 posted on 10/17/2008 6:25:25 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1)
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To: machogirl
"Don’t pay attention to the empty suit behind the curtain!"

If things were not so serious, that would be very funny. Bu-ut......

116 posted on 10/17/2008 6:25:26 PM PDT by NTegraT (USSA? Say it ain't so.)
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To: smokingfrog

Yep. Me too. I would send this guy $20. I don’t give a rat’s ass...I loved hearing the guy speak for all of his interviews in the aftermath of his encounter with Obama. He has the exact same views on our country that I (and many others here) share.

If you hear of anything, let me know as well.


117 posted on 10/17/2008 6:25:29 PM PDT by rlmorel (Who is Saul Alinsky and why is Barack Obama a disciple of his methods?)
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To: SueAngel

Interesting. The adoration thing is creepy, really creepy.


118 posted on 10/17/2008 6:25:32 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache)
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To: GerardKempf; Admin Moderator
What an utterly stupid post.

Joe the Plumber has the same problems of millions of other Americans. Why is this “Freeper” blaming the GOP for the media trying to destroy the guy? We need less of people like you here.

119 posted on 10/17/2008 6:25:33 PM PDT by Carling (Obama: He Hates Plumbers)
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To: Carling

I’ve been saying this for some time but it will not be north and south but left and right

many like me on the right have moved out of states like MA as our vote neevr counted and I did not believe paying any more money to a radical left state.

Here in this state I brought my family our votes now count and we have helped to get the marriage amendment on the ballot

if any one is on t the right and live in MA,VT,RI,CT and you want to stay near family then go to NH and make that state more red, if you can get out then move to FL,VA,NC,NC,AZ,NM,CO the latter especially for the CA right folk

let them have their liberal utopia but let them not use our money

let us have our states where we have morals, small Govt good teachers, schools


120 posted on 10/17/2008 6:25:53 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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