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.
Any library fines outstanding?
Not to make excuses for Joe but its possible he did’nt (gasp) agree with the ticket and decided not to pay it. Did the same thing myself and my dear old pa cleared it up without my consent.
Don’t pay attention to the empty suit behind the curtain!
How come we're hearing so much about this plumber's $1200 owed in taxes (not illegal) when Charlie Rangel has potentially $10,000's of taxes he has ILLEGALLY avoided paying?
Media...DO YOUR JOB!!!
Despicable “in the can” media is destroying one of us, “Joe the Plumber” BUT WILL NOT EXPOSE ACORN, AYERS, WRIGHT, AND ESPECIALLY OBAMA!
IT IS TIME WE BOYCOTT THE MEDIA! find thier sponsors and do not patronize.
Does anyone think Obama’s transition team will set up a powerful “domestic enemies” task force?
“Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harvard Law School in the late 1980s”
I got a whole mess of parking tickets in college, too. Why don’t universities build more parking ramps? Where does my tuition go, besides homo-studies and lavish Native American clubhouses?
Oh, and “Spread the Wealth, Socialists!”
Like congresscritters don’t have any parking issues!
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/09/rangel-broke-ru.html
Um, Ah, Um Um Ah............
Laura Ingram was discussing it tonight and Ive heard her say it before. They’re attempting to destroy anyone who speaks out against Obama. He has already gone after the sheriff who called him “Hussein”, Fox News and now Joe the plumer. They have also attempted to destroy Sarah Palin. They will lie cheat and God only knows what else to get elected.
What's missing is WHERE he was parking illegally....and why.
I seem to recall that Obama had parking fees in D.C. congressional parking in 2007 too!
Funny as heck that Obama campaign officials have tax liens.
Hope this backfires on the MSM bigtime.
Yep, Obama is responsible for HIS ANSWER.
so the media are out to destroy a man who asked obama a question yet another man is running for president and the media do not ask about odinga or investigate him going to kenya on tax payers money in support of a radical killer
if any of you media are reading this
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED, YOU ARE DISGUSTING and I seriously hope one day IO get to see any of these media elites and let me ask them about why they cannot do their job
Good find!
Obama is a dangerous loon — here is the official diagnostic criteria for a Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
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