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.
Basic economics, one would think that barry learned about supply and demand at Columbia? or was he busy learning about something else instead?
It is not won unless we stop fighting it! This kind of intimidation has never been so obvious before. It is like the media bias. We have to stop it. We have to holler until they have no choice but to respond.
We are all Joe the Plumber.
Interesting trail.
I believe the Liberal Messiah would not let secession occur without a fight. The X factor in this scenario is the military. Would the U.S. Armed Forces (1) obey their Commander-In-Chief, (2) refuse to fire upon fellow Americans, or (3) splinter (for an example of this, read about the English Civil War).
I wonder if anyone has told Joe that he has a traffic ticket?
It could be that he never received it. Baseline and Dobson has a red light camera. It flashes. You get the ticket in the mail and you have to pay. All without being pulled over.
Many people had their tickets dismissed because they weren’t “served” personally with the ticket.
If you didn’t receive it in the mail, you might not know until the next time you are pulled over.
Exactly. One shady dude.
I think there should be a new name for those targeted by the Democrats and MSM:
PTPISS: Post-Traumatic Political Stress Icky Syndrome.
Looks like he probably wears an obama “blue shirt”.
Latest I heard the B Hussein Obama's campaign has found that "Joe also has some outstanding tickets (fines) to pay in Arizona. These tickets are since the year 2000. Amazing in 3 days we have found out so much about Joe, in such little time. I guess the difference is it that he had nothing to hide. Where as the Obama's past is a complete mystery.
You are right he can win a battle but he must not win this war.
I do what I can (donate, vote, volunteer) but ultimately it will take divine intervention. I have never believed that MORE than I do at this time.
What is so strange is that our MSM is pushing it.
We already know it’s consciously. AND THEY KNOW WE KNOW IT!
Isn’t that even a bigger threat to our nation than radical Islam?
OOPS hard to dismiss the lack of insurance. Could have checked along with the red light camera.
I haven’t been ticketed, but I do know that intersection.
Mesa has been using red light camera’s for 10 years (I think).
In a word, yes.
Fascinating how all of these big capitalist's trusts and foundations came under control of the Left. I doubt Henry Ford was a communist. The Left has been plotting the overthrow of the USA for a very long time. They spent 80 years laying the foundation and now, as they start the revolution, America can't connect the dots. “How can this be happening?” Maybe we should have listened to Joe McCarthy?
Why do I think some Arizonan will send the state dept of motor vehicles the payment, together with a rather straightforward letter.
Why I don’t know who you could be talkin’ about? :)
I'm in.
How is is that Ann Dunham had money enough to live (?) in a Hilton Hotel in Pakistan for 5 years? How could Barack Hussein (middle, unmentionable name) 0bama afford to go to Pakistan? Africa? Harvard Law? Where are the interviews with G'ma Dunham? The step g'ma Obama? Haram: things sacred and off-limits to those not moslem.
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