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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: lone star annie

It will be barack tv, all the time and barack radio 24/7.


381 posted on 10/17/2008 11:24:13 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Can we mock this person?


382 posted on 10/17/2008 11:25:19 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: CodeToad

It is flat out creepy.


383 posted on 10/17/2008 11:59:52 PM PDT by machogirl (alan colmes gives me a headache, and I am Joe the plumber)
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To: machogirl

please do....


384 posted on 10/18/2008 1:05:03 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: machogirl
This is not the first attempt to silence dissent.

This texas woman and former Marine called a spade a spade with regard to Obama's abortion record, and was accused of making a death threat. All she said was that Obama voted to let babies die on a hospital floor. What the Obama campaign aid twisted her words into: "Obama will end up dead on a hospital floor." That constituted a threat, prompted a visit from the Secret Service, and leaves a permanent black mark on this woman's record.

So, don't you dare speak truthfully if The Obama is elected. Tell him lies, what his itching ears want to hear, and you might be ok.

385 posted on 10/18/2008 1:13:51 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: GerardKempf

Obama had 20 year old unpaid parking tickets from Harvard when he decided to run for POTUS. You should be embarrassed.


386 posted on 10/18/2008 1:34:06 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Palin won more votes in her Wasilla Mayoral race than Biden got in his 2008 Pres run)
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To: machogirl
This is what Team Obama thinks of the small businessman

Youtube - Obama Attacks Joe the Plumber

Youtube - Joe Biden Insults Joe the Plumber and All Small Business Owners




Youtube - Joe the Plumber - McCain/Palin Ad

Joe the Plumber Interviewed in His Front Yard

LEAVE JOE THE PLUMBER ALONE!
387 posted on 10/18/2008 2:23:18 AM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: machogirl

This is all the result of a citizen asking a politician a question. Amazing that it’s the MSM who are digging this stuff up. It would be nice if there was some legal recourse here for Joe (or as some nitwit politician was noting on FOX yesterday, “And know we find out that his name really isn’t ‘Joe.’”)

Well stop the presses!


388 posted on 10/18/2008 3:38:58 AM PDT by ExiledChicagoan (I see a red door and I want it painted black. But that's just me.)
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To: All

I don’t know if you all have seen this, but a small group of protestors outside a 0 rally weilding plungers. I hope this catches on.

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=200143


389 posted on 10/18/2008 3:44:11 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (READ MY LIPSTICK!!! I'm praying for Sarah Palin - Keep the vultures away from her.)
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To: machogirl

Remember if they go after Joe...we are all next. I dont know how but Im going to help this guy.


390 posted on 10/18/2008 3:52:26 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: machogirl

391 posted on 10/18/2008 4:39:29 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( I do not want to know the type of person, who does not like Sarah !)
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To: PhilDragoo

392 posted on 10/18/2008 4:44:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( I do not want to know the type of person, who does not like Sarah !)
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To: Grampa Dave

Excellent!

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*Change is only good if it makes things better
You can make a difference by VOTING in November
If it’s change you want, real change you’ll get
McCain and Palin for change you won’t regret...

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393 posted on 10/18/2008 4:47:49 AM PDT by Galleta (McCain / Palin for "Change You Won't Regret")
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To: April Lexington

My sister in law was raised in East Germany, the stories she tells are unbelievable.


394 posted on 10/18/2008 5:54:51 AM PDT by panthermom
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To: machogirl
Oh, do they hate Joe. He smoked out the marxist in their annointed one within five minutes on a nieghborhood street and showed him for the fraud he is.

Now they want to destroy the man in any way they can and will find any mistake, error, or contradictyion in th eman's life to do so.

So be it, it will reflect badly back on them just as their attacks on Sarah have done, and it will continue to smoke Obama out for the marxist/socialist he is and the real impact of his so-called "change".

Just as Patrick Henry indicated, and that truth still holds today...if we will hold the course, God in Heaven will raise up friends to help fight these battles.

Sarah Palin is one such friend...now, out of obscurity, Joe the Plumber is another.

All thanks for this goes, IMHO, to a merciful God in Heaven! and millions of hard working, partiotic, loyal Americans who will not give up...two of which, Joe and Sarah, have been brought forth before us all to express these sentiments.

The truth is that the left, the Obama campaign, the DNC, and the MSM will lie, fabricate, misquote, commit fruad, beg, borrow, or steal in their effort to slow down what is happening on the ground with the McCain campaign right now, and particularly with the likes of Joe and especially Sarah Palin who is burrowing underneath all of their hype and drawing 25-30,000 people at a time to her rallies and getting the message of hope and conservative values out.

Obama and his ilk know it, they fear it, and they will do anything they can to stop it...but they shall also fail in the attempt. Truth has a way of shining all the brighter in darkness.









SARAH PALIN DRAWING HUGE CROWDS ALL ACROSS AMERICA

395 posted on 10/18/2008 6:31:23 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

Ha! A company in TEXAS!

http://joetheplumber.com/


396 posted on 10/18/2008 7:11:12 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
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To: machogirl

The comments at the source website are like 20-1 against the reporter/media for digging up all the dirt on poor Joe.

I haven’t been this angry in a long time.


397 posted on 10/18/2008 7:13:54 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
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To: Carling

Here’s a comment from the story:

Eric, while you’re digging around for dirt on Joe, put your investigative skills to work on some info I’ve not been able to find anywhere.

1. Obama’s medical records. They have NEVER been released, and his campaign has stated that they never will be. Why?
2. Obama’s transcripts from any of the schools he has ever attended. Obama’s are nowhere to be found, not from Columbia or Harvard. Why not?
3. How about any records of the clients Obama served while he was an attorney in Chicago?
4. How about a valid, certified birth certificate for Obama? The one posted online was a verified forgery. I’d like to see the real thing just to set my mind at ease that he is, actually, a natural-born citizen as the Constitution requires.
5. How was a neophyte like Obama appointed to head the Annenberg Challenge which disbursed nearly $100 million?
6. I’d like to learn more about his schedule and records while serving in the Illinois State Senate. Unfortunately, they have been sealed. Again, why the secrecy?
7. How about tracking down and publishing all the scholarly articles this Harvard educated attorney wrote and published. Oops! That’s right! He never published a single article in spite of being the editor of the Harvard Law Review! I guess there’s no point in pursuing that one.
8. I want more information about the racist church that Obama attended for 20 years. What exactly is Black Liberation Theology? I’m curious to know how listening to that teaching for two decades has affected Barack.
9. I want similar “dirt” dug up on Obama’s associates, including everyone on his campaign team and advisors. Don’t you think it’s fair that we learn about their brushes with the law, both major and minor? I’m interested to know about David Axelrod’s tax statements, driving record, real estate dealings, medical history, divorce records, credit history, home address. Hey, if it’s fair for Joe the Plumber, why not apply that standard starting at the top?
10. I want to know more of Barack’s work as an attorney for the Chicago chapter of ACORN. I understand he was also a trainer for that organization. Can you find out more about the type of training he offered the other “community activists”?

My point is that Joe simply asked a question of Barack, Barack answered it honestly, and in doing so, damaged himself. That is the main point, not some silly dirt-digging over a man who simply wants to move ahead in life, like the rest of us. Barack is an empty slate. I am very uncomfortable voting for someone who keeps major portions of his life shrouded in secrecy. Attacking someone who simply asked a question raises even more questions and doubt about this candidate, his supporters, and how they would manage our country once in power.


398 posted on 10/18/2008 7:22:13 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion
The message is out: "Don't question us, or we will destroy you."
399 posted on 10/18/2008 7:34:06 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

FBI Files Part II.


400 posted on 10/18/2008 7:40:16 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
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