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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: SantaLuz
“Imagine 10,000 of these guys coming to DC on the socialist coattails of Obama and Pelosi. Clintons will look like Ozzie and Harriet in comparison.”

Spot on. Its not just the President its the appointees who permeate the departments and agencies in Washington. And the civil servants (puke) who have life tenure. Washington staff is Red now. Wait until Red appointees show up. It could get crazy with lunatics like Ayres and friends running vast government agencies. The DOW will be trading, if at all, in toe 3,000 range.

361 posted on 10/17/2008 9:38:30 PM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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To: cruise_missile

be careful, The Obama-nazis are watching. If you speak ill of the glorious leader, please use a code word instead of obama....like butt monkey or Captain Camel.


362 posted on 10/17/2008 9:43:20 PM PDT by odin2008 (EVIL TRUMPHS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING)
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To: balls

Yet anytime we object to this the press starts screaming Free Speech. Wonder how their ratings are going for attacking private citizens.

Pray for W, McCain/Palin and Our Troops


363 posted on 10/17/2008 10:01:00 PM PDT by bray (It's the Corruption Stupid)
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To: Cvengr

“undocumented” plumber slips through the “plumber’s crack”


364 posted on 10/17/2008 10:01:37 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: altura

But they have plans.


365 posted on 10/17/2008 10:03:29 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: odin2008

You’re right. I might change my screen name to Ann Frank.


366 posted on 10/17/2008 10:04:53 PM PDT by cruise_missile (''Edward - Jones:High commissions for lousy investment advice! Making cents out of $.)
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To: April Lexington

It’s coming to a frenzy. I am more appalled every day just how blatant and out in the open they are with the voter fraud, thuggary, threats....


367 posted on 10/17/2008 10:05:50 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: odin2008

I’m sure that they have an obama-bot whose sole job is to monitor FR, report to their captain, who then has legal send harassing letters to the Robinsons.


368 posted on 10/17/2008 10:07:16 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: altura; April Lexington
I find it scary.

Yeah, me too. Especially posts 358 and 361. Real scary. This is why I find conservatives like Noonan and Buckley Jr's recent actions, ("let Obama win-it'll be OK", as well as wishy washy Republicans making 1/2 a$$ed efforts to win, (because they want to be invited to the dem cocktail parties) IMHO- these actions, are Chamberlin-esque.

I mean Hugo Chavez runs Venezuela. Where's the big ground swell of support for conservatism there? Answer: there's been some uprising from the people, but it's squashed. It's too late.

Once the socialists seize power, they use it too make sure they stay in power.

If people aren't willing to stand up and fight now, are they going to do it when there's a price to be paid for opposing the government?

(By the way- can some Freeper please post the photo of Jimmuh Carter shaking hands with Hugo Chavez?- for those who still can't see the "big picture" of what's going on here.)

369 posted on 10/17/2008 10:13:45 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for president Bush. Pray for our troops. Pray for McCain /Palin, Pray for our nation.)
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To: darkwing104
Private citizen is now public enemy. Shades of things in the offing.....

(Who wants to speak to a reporter, a canvasser, a pollster....? Look at this as an Early Warning alert. )
370 posted on 10/17/2008 10:13:52 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: PhilDragoo; machogirl; MarineBrat; Grampa Dave; Ernest_at_the_Beach; potlatch; devolve; ...

As one of the talk show guys said today, it looks like
the Mainstream Media has dug into Joe the Plumber’s life
the last few days MORE than they have into Barack HUSSEIN
Obama’s life the last few YEARS !!!


371 posted on 10/17/2008 10:22:19 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: Blogger

Bingo! but, something that as long as they keep poeple talking about what a bad guy JTP is people won’t talk about the whole issue really being about Income Redistribution.


372 posted on 10/17/2008 10:28:06 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: machogirl

So what building did Joe bomb again?


373 posted on 10/17/2008 10:28:47 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (o)
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To: machogirl

I bet you’re correct.


374 posted on 10/17/2008 10:30:10 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: altura

For the first time in my life I am really afraid of what the government can do. If they want to go after you you are doomed.

I see the day when all of talk radio is silenced and the internet will be censored. If Obama gets elected, I don’t think we will feel safe posting on Free Republic anymore.


375 posted on 10/17/2008 10:39:52 PM PDT by lone star annie
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To: BIGLOOK; MeekOneGOP; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Grampa Dave; Jeff Head; ntnychik; LucyT; Fred Nerks; ...

376 posted on 10/17/2008 10:46:18 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: SueAngel

Sociopath;

http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html


377 posted on 10/17/2008 10:53:21 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: PhilDragoo

378 posted on 10/17/2008 10:56:07 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: PhilDragoo

bump!!!!


379 posted on 10/17/2008 10:56:33 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

uh, he questioned “the One that we have been waiting for”, “the One” stumbled, and they attacked the messenger.

Did that answer your question?


380 posted on 10/17/2008 11:22:57 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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