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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: machogirl

Obummer is a thug. This should really boost his Character issue.

Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops


341 posted on 10/17/2008 8:52:40 PM PDT by bray (It's the Corruption Stupid)
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To: machogirl

The media is making votes for McCain. The average Joe is seeing this as an attack by Obama and his supporters.


342 posted on 10/17/2008 8:54:21 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: SE Mom
"How many YEARS was it before Barack Obama paid hundreds of dollars of parking tickets to the city of Cambridge when he attended Harvard?"

Isn't that a tidbit of interesting news.

343 posted on 10/17/2008 8:55:47 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: April Lexington

Just ask Joe the Plumber about “free speech.”


344 posted on 10/17/2008 8:57:49 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: April Lexington

To me it’s almost surreal, the events we are seeing are crazy, the personal assaults on people, the physical assaults, the blatant voter fraud, listening and reading the news I feel like I’m in a parallel universe. It’s like the pot is reaching boiling point and it is about to boil over.

I have never heard so many people talking as passionately about an election like this.


345 posted on 10/17/2008 8:58:21 PM PDT by panthermom
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To: killermosquito

http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=1190


346 posted on 10/17/2008 8:58:35 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: NTegraT
And meanwhile they have successfully buried the original point: Obama wants to raise taxes on small businesses.

another point that got lost... not only does he want to tax ANYTHING, not just people, making more then $250,000... but he wants that on GROSS not net

check the sound bite here (0.29 seconds in): youtube link

347 posted on 10/17/2008 8:58:57 PM PDT by sten
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To: CodeToad; Pajamajan; bray

I have never seen anything like it. Hatred of Reagan, then Bush II, and now this.


348 posted on 10/17/2008 8:59:58 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: machogirl

Maybe Joe the Plumber will find Joe the Lawyer. I don’t know if picking on a private citizen in this manner is actually breaking any laws, but it sure is unethical.


349 posted on 10/17/2008 9:00:07 PM PDT by vrwc54 (We are all Joe the Plumber)
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To: bray

Clinton was a thug - the MSM and the knee-pad liberals didn’t miss a beat supporting him.


350 posted on 10/17/2008 9:00:09 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: machogirl

Look at what Obama has wrought! With the encouragement of the MSM, our country is showing strong signs of becoming fascist.


351 posted on 10/17/2008 9:02:42 PM PDT by balls (Obama = Robin Hood)
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To: vrwc54

Ethics? They don’t care about any “stupid ethics”.

I seriously don’t think that they have any. The end really justifies the means to these people.


352 posted on 10/17/2008 9:02:47 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: vrwc54

From your lips to God’s ears... I hope some brave person will step forward and offer to help this man.


353 posted on 10/17/2008 9:02:56 PM PDT by antceecee (McCain ~ Palin '08 May God have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: machogirl

We’ve all seen this before. During Clinton’s term ANYONE who mentioned ANYTHING negative about Clinton got this treatment. Liberals are the most hateful people, which is why when they get into power they murder millions of people; witness China, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, etc, etc, etc. They thrive on hate. Just look at Obama; racist hatred is what is driving his campaign. Whites vote for him because they hate the “system”, the “man”. All he is really saying is, “I’m going to screw the rich and whites, too, and you’ll just love it. Vote for me!” Hitler came to power this way. Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, they all did.


354 posted on 10/17/2008 9:04:47 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: panthermom
In what world do you live? The R's have not acted in any way to defend the Constitution, or individual citizens during their tenure. The D's are obviously robbing the treasury to buy votes, and should in any sane world, be thrown in jail. No sheriff in town. Not an ethical bone in any of their fowl bodies.

I would dance in the streets like a Muslim, should the "terrorists" blow Washington, DC off the map, particularly if all the scum were in town.

355 posted on 10/17/2008 9:12:04 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: balls

The Obamanation.


356 posted on 10/17/2008 9:17:59 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: machogirl
The only way "Joe the Plumber" could have slipped through the cracks is a clerical error

...unless of course he is an illegal alien, then he can purchase a birth certificate, receive social security benefits, and other voter's rights as long as he registers with ACORN....

357 posted on 10/17/2008 9:25:34 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: panthermom
“To me it’s almost surreal, the events we are seeing are crazy, the personal assaults on people, the physical assaults, the blatant voter fraud, listening and reading the news I feel like I’m in a parallel universe. It’s like the pot is reaching boiling point and it is about to boil over.

I have never heard so many people talking as passionately about an election like this.

Welcome to the revolution. This is how it happened in Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and China. They win from within because the established order gets too distracted with the good life. They put all of their ducks in place over years and years (this all started in the 1960’s). Then, when it starts, nobody can believe their eyes. They feel powerless and helpless as their world collapses around them. After the takeover, the greedy and self interested sell out for jobs, power, etc in the new regime and the old fashion “conservatives” end up dead or in poverty. You join the party and you have a house, job, car and vacation. You complain about the state and you disappear.

358 posted on 10/17/2008 9:30:03 PM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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To: machogirl
“The Obamanation.”

The Obamanation that causes desolation. Maybe the Gospel writer had a spelling problem?

359 posted on 10/17/2008 9:32:46 PM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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To: machogirl

At least they didn’t come in the night and throw him in some kind of secret prison.

But don’t think it couldn’t happen if Obama is elected.

I find it scary.


360 posted on 10/17/2008 9:35:08 PM PDT by altura
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