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.
LOL
I shouldn’t be laughing at that because of poor Mary Jo.
Wake up especially when this leftist and his congressional cronies get control of the IRS and its auditing powers, the Justice Department and control the oversight (or lack thereof) of the congressional committees of abuse of agency powers to destroy critics of the Obama presidency. Wait until they get control of the FCC and get rid of talk radio, monitor internet sites such as these, and get a new FBI Director who will investigate dissidents. All the stuff (and it was relatively minor) that the media screamed about in the Nixon era will be applauded in an Obama presidency by his sycophants at the Washington Post, New York Times and Time.
We will think of joe the plumber.
I’m more afraid of what the govt. will do to me than the plumber.
Agreed...I feel sorry for him too.
Christpher Plummer in his hottie days. :)
How about flooding these hypocritical news sources with emails and phone calls telling them to “lay off Joe” with every negative article, broadcast, etc.? This man needs to be defended now. We need to stand up for our fellow patriots in word and IN DEED.
I’d like to see ACORN members, Congress and the Senate gone after like this.
As long as they don’t start hunting him with their news helicopters...if that happened, I’m sure some fringe group would make all kinds of fuss and we’d never hear the end of it.
Yep! We are doomed.........
Go somewhere else with your glass half empty stuff already.
The needs of the Nazi state. They are coming for you and me next!
I can’t believe the ACORN voter registration story not being the number one story right now.
Instead they try to vet a guy with just a simple question. What does it matter what his background is.
At the same time we have a guy running for the presidency that couldn’t get a security clearance.
I saw a freeper another thread say this is Bizzaro world.
I would like to add to that Neo-Nazi Bizzaro World!
The pattern of parking tickets may tell us where Obama lived while he was in Boston.
lol
Joe’s been in Alaska, Arizona, and Ohio.
Do I know where Barack has been?
Pakistan. Do I know why? NO, cause the msm is too busy doing the obama dirty work.
Good points, popdonnelly, good points. I stopped watching television years ago. I don't read newspapers or magazines like Time and Newsweek.
I don't need those dumb asses trying to indoctrinate me, which is what they do.
It is Chicago gutter politics. Anyone who poses a threat needs knocked off the playing field and destroyed. That is how Obama won most of his elections so far.
I’d almost forgot about that phrase.
All Joe did was ask a question...which he has every RIGHT to do in this country. It was OBAMA’s ANSWER that drew attention. Is this smearing suppose to somehow discredit him? THEY ARE SCARED...don’t sound too confident to me.
Wow. KEX did this. PORTLAND’S KEX?
I love that station. I may even listen to Dr. Laura for a few minutes Monday after Rush is over to reward them for this effort.
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