“Joe the plumber” not a licensed plumber — and his name is Sam
October 16th, 2008 at 01:59pm Chuck Sweeny
Seems “Joe the Plumber,” who was the focus of the third presidential debate Wednesday, is not a real plumber. He works in a two-main plumbing business in Toledo, Ohio, and hopes to buy it someday. He told Good Morning America that he earns nowhere near $250,000, the point at which Obama’s tax plan would raise his taxes. The local plumber’s union (which endorsed Obama) notes that he’s not a licensed union plumber and did not serve an apprenticeship in the plumber’s union. He also owes Ohio about a grand in back taxes. Read about it here.
His full name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.
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1. Milton Waddams | October 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Not at all surprising that he was a McCain ( or Rove) plant. Not even registered to vote…
2. SNuss | October 20th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
If you had bothered to ignore the Leftist ploy of attacking the messenger to cover up the message, you would have found it kind of hard for him to have been a plant, since Obama brought his campaign right to Joe’s front yard. Joe does work 10-hour plus days as a plumber, assisting another plumber, and has been doing this kind of work for about fifteen years. He will be taking his test for his own license in a few months. But, that is irrelavant, and the question is still valid. Obama’s answer of wanting to ” spread the money around” is scarily similar to this quote: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, by Karl Marx.
The Obama-Ayres connection must have been closer than Obama dares to admit, since Ayres describes himself as a “communist”.
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