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.
To the DUmmies and obamamessiahites he is.
Well now, that should be discussed, but how do we bring that into the daylight?
Absolutely if they haven't started it already.
Mark my words, all that have posted anything negatively here about "That One" are already noted and plans are being drawn up to deal with us!
We ALL better get out and vote!
We all stand together or hang separately.
The Sacred Heart of Muslim Leftist Crap?
Freeper was right.
I wonder if they went to Hong Kong to see if he has a license there. Why are they going after this guy? This would sure change my mind about voting for Obama. They sound like Bill Clinton.
This guy didn’t even originally speak out against Obama. He asked a question, Obama’s mask came off in his answer, and he was left a naked Marxist. So his degenerates in the media have decided to destroy this guy.
We will have another Civil War within ten years, and I am ready.
I could care less whether he calls himself Joe or Sam or whether he’s licensed or unlicensed, but when you pose a question like you are trying to buy a plumbing business and you have a suspended drivers license in AZ with pending fines and you have a tax lien in the same state, the bottom line is that John’s staff did not vet this guy enough before using him as the prize. I’m starting to get embarrassed for not doing our research on this guy. C’mon John do some homework - and we wonder why we’re running behind in a lot of areas
Can we please get a Joe the plumber ad?
Average, everyday Americans are shown to the camera and each of them says, “I am job the plumber”
Then we cut to Obama saying “He’s going to fight for joe the pluber, how many plumbers do you know who make a quarter of a million dollars”
Then a mesh of everyday Americans say, “Barack Obama just doesn’t get it. Joe the Plumber is ‘We the People’.
I am John McCain and I approved this message.
One Note, both John McCain and Sarah Palin should be in the ad as an everyday American saying “I am Joe the Plumber”.
Ad 2:
Joe the plumber is more than a plumber. Joe the plumber is a :
Cut to ordinary Americans (one by one) saying their occupation. “Mother, Father, Electrician, Teacher, Student, Bus Driver, and executive, a stock broker ect...”
Back to Obama saying, “He’s going to fight for a plumber? How many plumbers do you know making a quarter of a million dollars”
Back to Americans saying (word by word, different people, sometimes the word can be repeated): Barack Obama simply doesn’t get it. Joe the plumber is we the people
I am John McCain and I approved this message. Thoughts? By the way it would be a good idea to get real everyday Americans (all shapes, sizes colors and ethnicity to say “I am Joe the plumber”...Maybe even using everyday cameras. It’s a grassroots thing)
Would be very surprised if a 527 doesn't tackle this one.
$627.50???
For missing a red light and not having proof of insurance in the car?
Wow.
Lou Dobbs on CNN is polling exactly that question tonight.
As for Joe the Plumber, if he's had any anxiety about the delinquent ticket in AZ and taxes in OH, he will be very relieved to have those issues cleared up.
This is not the media. This is Janet Napolitano unleashing AZ civil servants upon JTP for political reasons. AZ GOP should make a big stink about this.
You should repeat that over and over. So Joe is a scofflaw, but Kennedy is a killer
This is like nothing I have ever seen.
Celebutards attacking the ave. American. The kind that go see their movies.
So now they're trying to give a hint to AZ to send that info to Ohio so they can suspend his license. What a bunch of a-holes.
If only Joe was an illegal Mexican immigrant. All would be well with the world of dumocrats.
The attack dogs are out of control. This is a preview of life with Pres Obama. We are all Joe America and this will happen to any of us who now voice a different opinion. Goodbye to the America we love. God help our children and grandchildren.
Every aspect of your life will be exposed.
There are so many laws and so many ways to run afoul of them that everybody is a criminal.
That is the lesson to be learned here.
The media and their socialist allies in government are more interested in investigating the common man than in asking pointed questions of political candidates carrying their agenda.
How many people know that B. Hussein Obama had about 30 unpaid parking tickets in Cambridge, Massghanistan from when he was at Harvard Law School that he only paid just before he decided to run for President. Yet he sends his minions out to try to destroy S. Joseph Wurzelbacher. I guess Obama is really incensed about someone using his middle name! He must be afraid it might start a trend.
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