Joe the Plumber target of Arizona (his Drivers License is suspended)

east valley tribune ^ | 10/17/08 | Daniel Newhauser

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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.

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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.

There are so many things wrong with this on so many levels!

I suspect that Joe Plumber is the typical 'blue collar' guy. In this day of so much regulation that you need a secretary and a lawyer to stay on top of it, huge fines and not enough time to make a decent living, divorces which mean that the cost of living doubles; the truth is that many Americans have out standing debts.

Shame, shame, shame on the Democrats, the party of the 'common man', for ridiculing the man and offering no sane solutions to the over regulated America in which we now live. Their hypocrisy is beyond any reasoned understanding.

The only reason why a guy who is 'apprenticing' to be a plumber, any tradesman, even a real estate agent is to support those who came before them. Apprenticeship is a code word in America for slavery, and the denial of the right to start one's own business. It guarantees the 'consumer' nothing. Yet it is enforced in every state, denying American's their God given right to Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

We are over regulated, over taxed, and over fined.

"The media has managed to turn up more negative material on Joe the Plumber in a day than they have on Barack Hussein Obama in a year. The latter is running for President, the former was an ordinary man who asked him a question.

This is the way things are supposed to work in a dictatorship, not in the United States. Here the critical eye is supposed to be on the politician, not on the American who asks him a critical question." Read the rest here.

 

[antonia]

p>This media circus performs three functions:
1. Provide a diversion to write columns and avoid the "spread the wealth" discussion that started the whole thing.
2. Destroy the man who dared to ask the fake messiah a question that tripped him up.
3. Serve as a warning to any future questioners.

You are so right! Here we have a candidate who imply that he wants to 'spread the wealth' around to everyone, but what he really means is that he wants to spread it around to his family and cronies.

Though he's battling GOP accusations that he's an Ivy League elitist, Barack Obama has a lifestyle of the rich and famous, like TV show host Robin Leach, who always signed off, "Champagne wishes and caviar dreams!" While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne",a tipster told New York Post, Page Six." the web page has been taken down. http://www.nypost.com/seven/10172008/gossip/pagesix/obamas_fancy_snack_133922.htm  Find here links to the many articles which refered to the page while it was still up.

I don't know about any of you, but I couldn't order that kind of meal on a special occasion let alone at four o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon. I mean, how out of touch with reality are these people? They're trying to sell themselves as ordinary Americans, but they continue to do things that are far from ordinary.

What bothers me even more is the fact that they would actually spend so much money for room service. Is this the kind of thing we can expect to pay for if they win the White House? We want a President to stop wasting our money, not waste it on fancy foods that ordinary people will never be able to afford.

And the worst slap in the face is the fact that she ordered IRANIAN caviar. Maybe it's really good caviar (it must be since it sells for like $125 an ounce), but does she not have any idea what's going on with Iran right now? Maybe that's why Obama is willing to sit down with Iran without preconditions. Maybe he just wants to score some cheap Iranian caviar?

 

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Interesting stuff huh? I used to pull it up pertaining to Hillary too!