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Joe the Plumber?; Not a plumber. And not even called Joe
Topic Started: Oct 17 2008, 06:00 AM (2,532 Views)
somerled
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Can't believe that Joe the Fake Plumber , has become such an important topic here , the man is a fraud , and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he was on McCain's payroll.

I hope he enjoyed his fornight in the spotlight and hope we never hear of him again.

He provided a very good diversion from McCain's and Miss Piggy's policy vacuum.
Edited by somerled, Oct 27 2008, 10:06 PM.
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Do you even read threads before you post?

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Dwayne
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^^^ Are you kidding?
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Not really...I don't know what I was thinking.
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Somerled,

I will ask you again, please don't refer to Governor Palin as Miss Piggy. It is unnecessary and uncalled for. Please keep those types of comments to yourself.

Thank you

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Dwayne
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Oops: Inspector general investigating access to Joe the Plumber's personal information

Silly leftists... this one is coming back to bite them in the butt.
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Dwayne
Oct 29 2008, 01:08 AM
Oops: Inspector general investigating access to Joe the Plumber's personal information

Silly leftists... this one is coming back to bite them in the butt.
Ummm - there is not a shred of evidence in your article that this was done by "leftists".

It is your unsubstantiated accusations that keep coming back to bite you in the butt......
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Who else would have done it? And, why would conservatives do it?

It is a tactic of the left to not just beat your opponent, but to destroy them too. It was the left that started all this crap about "he isn't even a plumber!" "His name isn't really Joe!" "He owes TAXES!!!"

The Messiah himself, and Joe Biden both mocked the guy while the hordes of followers laughed their asses off.

So, why would conservatives do it?
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Hmmmm, what's that smell... kinda like fear, isn't it?

Tightening polls and tightening... well, you know.
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More Joe the Plumber news....
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State employee says she was ordered to check out Joe the Plumber

Friday, October 31, 2008 10:21 PM

By Randy Ludlow
The Columbus Dispatch

Vanessa Niekamp said that when she was asked to run a child-support check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16, she thought it routine. A supervisor told her the man had contacted the state agency about his case.

Niekamp didn't know she just had checked on "Joe the Plumber," who was elevated the night before to presidential politics prominence as Republican John McCain's example in a debate of an average American.

The senior manager would not learn about "Joe" for another week, when she said her boss informed her and directed her to write an e-mail stating her computer check was a legitimate inquiry.

The reason Niekamp said she was given for checking if there was a child-support case on Wurzelbacher does not match the reason given by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

Director Helen Jones-Kelley said her agency checks people who are "thrust into the public spotlight," amid suggestions they may have come into money, to see if they owe support or are receiving undeserved public assistance.

Niekamp told The Dispatch she is unfamiliar with the practice of checking on the newly famous. "I've never done that before, I don't know of anybody in my office who does that and I don't remember anyone ever doing that," she said today.

Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland and Jones-Kelley, both supporters of Democrat Barack Obama, have denied political motives in checking on Wurzelbacher. The Toledo-area resident later endorsed McCain. State officials say any information on "Joe" is confidential and was not released.

Today, Strickland press secretary Keith Dailey said neither the governor's office nor Job and Family Services officials could comment due to an ongoing investigation by Ohio's inspector general.

Republican legislators have called the checks suspicious and Jones-Kelley's reason for them flimsy. They are demanding to know whether state computers were accessed in an attempt to dig up dirt on Wurzelbacher.

Jones-Kelley has revealed that her agency also checked to see if Wurzelbacher was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes. "Joe the Plumber" has said he is not involved in a child-support case.

About 3 p.m. on Oct. 16, Niekamp said Carrie Brown, assistant deputy director for child support, asked her to run Wurzelbacher through the computer. Citing privacy laws, Niekamp would not say what, if anything, was found on "Joe."

On Oct. 23, Niekamp said Doug Thompson, deputy director for child support, told her she had checked on "Joe the Plumber." Thompson "literally demanded" that she write an e-mail to the agency's chief privacy officer stating she checked the case for child-support purposes, she said.

Thompson told her that Jones-Kelley said Wurzelbacher might buy a plumbing business and could owe support. Thompson said he replied that he "would check him out."

Niekamp, 38, a senior child-support manager, said she never heard any discussion of politics amid what her supervisors told her about the checks on Wurzelbacher.

Worried about her $69,000-a-year job and potential criminal charges, the 15-year state employee said she went to Inspector General Thomas P. Charles on Oct. 24. She has seen employees fired, and dismissed one herself, for illegally accessing personal information in support cases. Niekamp, a registered Republican, said politics played no role in what she told investigators.

The e-mail that Niekamp said she wrote was not among records provided today to The Dispatch in response to a public-records request. Nor did the agency, as required by state law, say it withheld any records.

Strickland spokesman Dailey later said one e-mail was withheld from The Dispatch because its release is prohibited by federal or state laws that forbid the release of information on the state's child-support system. Daily said he was neither confirming nor denying the existence of a case on Wurzelbacher.

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/31/joe.html?sid=101
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Somerled, we don't need a commentary every time Dwayne makes a post. This isnt insignificant. Look at the date of the article. Its dated OCTOBER 31, 2008, and IN THE FRIGGIN THREAD FOR JOE THE PLUMBER!!!!!!!!!!

If you want to give commentary and noteriety, why don't you do it in the Photography contest thread. It needs some help. Just trying to bait Dwayne is so stupid. It isn't like he dug up an article from 2 weeks ago. That article was published the same day Dwayne posted it.
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Oct 31 2008, 10:48 PM
Another one bumped ....
I meant to quote Somerled in my post above this one, but he really ticked me off. I did it in the quick reply box. Now, I'm quoting him so he can't go and change it.

I just don't get it. He crys about spam, but he is the worst of all.
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Dwayne is supposed to be a big boy , he doesn't need you running to his defence .... or does he .

Heck , he didn't even see my post . :rotfl:

Why don't you say the same kind of things to others (who do so regularly) when they make similar comments in my threads ? No names mentioned .... and no I don't expect a response and I do NOT want to derail this thread or a tangent it, this was just an observation.

Please continue ....

BTW : I still think "Joe" or what ever he is called is a fraud , and either an attention seeker or in the employ of the McCain camp or an organisation that supports McCain's ticket. From the sounds of things I've read about him , I would not want him anywhere near my house's plumbing.
Heck he's not even licenced to plumb , probably just a laborer who digs ditches for a plumber and I read somewhere he wasn't even qualified to do plumbing. So he deserves to be publically exposed since he misrepresented himself in a very public venue.
I hope he was paid well to ask that question.
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Nov 1 2008, 12:21 AM
Somerled, we don't need a commentary every time Dwayne makes a post. This isnt insignificant. Look at the date of the article. Its dated OCTOBER 31, 2008, and IN THE FRIGGIN THREAD FOR JOE THE PLUMBER!!!!!!!!!!

If you want to give commentary and noteriety, why don't you do it in the Photography contest thread. It needs some help. Just trying to bait Dwayne is so stupid. It isn't like he dug up an article from 2 weeks ago. That article was published the same day Dwayne posted it.
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