He at least needs corrective lenses.
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.
Liberal press has done more investigations on “Joe” than they have on Obama. Amazing
If the news media had any shame, which they don’t, they’d blush. Why is this man suddenly the target of investigation?
That’s good. :)
We are indeed. We lost our moral bearings and let our responsibilities be assumed by government. Now we’re pretty much irrelevant to the needs of the state.
How did he get the money to buy a car ?
He at least needs corrective lenses.
Do you want to know how the Reign of Terror, the Cultural Revolution, and the Khmer Rouge happen? Let Obama’s supporters get away with murder of their enemies and no doubt that many of them would embrace it with zeal.
The way to hurt the news media that is doing this is to withhold your money from them. That, and shunning them as dishonorable people.
I haven’t checked online yet to verify tickets (if i’m able i will)
Yep, they so hate the “Politics of Personal Destruction” that they are willing to destroy a regular guy for daring to ask their candidate a question.
What will happen to any ordinary person who says or does something that displeases Obama and his followers? Will we not dare write on a blog, write a letter to the editor, call in to a talk show? This is a very scary situation when anyone crosses “the one”.
A soon to be seen painting on velvet.
uh....what has this to do with the hypothetical question he asked Obama and the Marxist answer obama gave?
We shouldn’t care if Joe was a 10 foot tall transvestite.
It still wouldn’t change the answer Obama gave to Samuel Josephs question. All this flap is to take the focus off that POS Obama.
But in this case I think they miscalculated. Seeing a plumber with ordinary foibles (it’s not like he’s a child molester! Though who knows what they’ll insinuate, they have no standards) getting picked on for asking Obama a question is not going to go over well.
Even traditional (non moon-bat) Liberals have got to be a little uneasy over this inquisition.
Obama gestapo strikes again!
“he is torn apart like a terrorist.”
Let me correct you. The terrorists are Ayers and Dohrn. They have not been similarly “torn apart” by what calls itself the news media.
BFD say I, a lot of folks get suspended............keeps the police busy
"Just call me Joe"
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