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.
Obama wants to spread the wealth around...particularly, to his political supporters. I wish the media outlets would do the math on his spending and tax programs. Obama will raise the taxes of middle-class Americans.
No one dare speak against the chosen one, we are all in danger for even being here. The Nazi’s are in control of our country. I never thought it would be this bad and I fear we’ve seen nothing yet. The media is filthy. Pray for our country.
The original fine seems ridiculous in itself...and suspended license, too?? Something ain’t right here.
Someone here on FR posted that after mentioning his tax lein they’d go after him for not paying parking tickets. The MSM is so predictable.
BREAKING NEWS: Reasonable People Shout ‘Who Cares’ to Mainstream Press
As one local thinking man put it, “A question is a question, and can be asked by anyone. If a convict, bum, racist, drunk, illegal immigrant, or foreign despot had ellicited the soundbite from Obama, nothing would be different.”
Not that I know of, this just broke.
Disgusting. We get a glimpse of the Obama administration and dissenting views.
Scary as hell.
Can you believe this? Joe gets more vetting than Obama by the press. Nineteen months vs. nineteen hours.
How many YEARS was it before Barack Obama paid hundreds of dollars of parking tickets to the city of Cambridge when he attended Harvard?
I never heard that. He didn’t have many late fees.
Absolutely. The McCain campaign couldn't risk looking like whiners and were forced to say "We're tough, we can take it."
This time they can say, "See how 0bama treats regular Joes."
And meanwhile they have successfully buried the original point: Obama wants to raise taxes on small businesses. They have learned well.
This has nothing to do with the Liberal Messiah saying He wants to “spread the wealth”. These attacks are simply warning to anyone else who would dare to question the Liberal Messiah. The First and Second Amendments are enemies of He Who Would Reign Over Us.
John Walker Lindh and Adam Gadahn have never been scrutinized like this poor guy.
Wake up America, or you could be next on the list for daring to question Dear Leader.
If you hear of one, ping me.
I can't believe this crap. I guess the moral is, don't question 'The One.'
Once again...WHO CARES!!! He exposed the Messiahs plans on a socialist “Robin Hood” government. Enough! Enough!
They can’t catch fraudulent voters, but they sure can flush a plumber right quick.
That would fuel the DUmmies.
Janet our gov, probably did the background for this. lol
she’s part of the obama campaign.
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