Joe the Plumber has a one-to-one with Editor and Publisher. He gives his thoughts on the media, Sarah Palin, and of course Obama.
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LOGAN, UTAH Forever a part of American electoral history, Joe Wurzelbacher--better known as "Joe the Plumber"--is hitting back at the media for its coverage of him over the past year, telling Editor & Publisher the reporting has been "poorly done."
Taxpayers foot bill for employees being sued by ‘Joe the Plumber’
By William Hershey, Staff Writer
Updated 12:25 AM Sunday, November 15, 2009
COLUMBUS — Ohio taxpayers are right in the middle of the civil rights lawsuit that Samuel Joseph — “Joe the Plumber” — Wurzelbacher has filed against three former state employees, charging that they illegally accessed his confidential information through state databases.
*Joe the Plumber joins University of Toledo College Republicans as they
Pledge to Reclaim Campus*
The University of Toledo College Republicans will host their
first meeting Tuesday August 25th in the Student Union Room 2591. Joe "The
Plumber" Wurzelbacher will be in attendance as the UTCRs will lay out a plan
to reclaim the university in the name of Conservative Values.
The UT College Republicans are the reigning chapter of the year in
the state of Ohio. Last year their local business support program
picked up national headlines as did their efforts in the 2008
Joe what if it was the devil portraying himself as god? :)
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Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — you know him best as Joe the Plumber from Ohio — said in October he was thinking about running for Congress, challenging veteran Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat who represents the Toledo area.
No more. Joe says his No. 1 adviser has nixed the idea, ThinkProgress reports, citing an interview he gave to WorldNetDaily.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/07/joe-the-plumber-god-told-me...
Looks like our friend Joe is still keeping it "fresh".
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Joe is now taking on against Steele.
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Joe the Plumber criticized Republican National Chairman Michael Steele over the weekend for trying to repackage the GOP.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19801.html
More Joe the Plumber news, and you thought he was gone :)
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It would be a heckuva lot more dramatic if Joe the Plumber announced he was representing himself in the lawsuit.
Entering the courtroom with legal briefs in one hand and plunger in the other. Vowing to flush the legal system clean of impropriety and wrong doing.
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/06/joe-the-plumber-now-jo...
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/03/...
The Atlantic has an article on the odds of Joe the Plumber running against Marcy. For someone who was said to have his 15 minutes of fame, he surpassed that a long time ago.
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In case you were wondering about the odds that Joe Wurzelbacher (for the rest of his life aka "Joe the Plumber") will, as he has indicated he may be up for, run for Congress, BetOnline.com is now taking odds on that and other prospects for Wurzelbacher's political future.
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/03/odds_on_joes_political_future.php
More on Joe:
Joe the Plumber proves you can't keep a good man down:
Joe the Plumber now advising the GOP on the economy - http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/02/03/joe-the-plumber-now-ad...
Conservative Internet TV Brings Joe the Plumber to D.C. -
http://sev.prnewswire.com/multimedia-online-internet/20090205/DC67278050...
Joe the Plumber to address GOP Hill aides -
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/02/joe-the-plumber.html
Joe is making news in Israel, from the Jerusalem Post:
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Samuel Wurzelbacher of Ohio, aka Joe the Plumber, arrived in Sderot at noon Sunday to show local and foreign reporters how to do it right.
Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, has arrived in Israel to cover the war in Gaza.
"You should be ashamed of yourself," he told foreign reporters.
"You should be patriotic, protect your family and children, not report like you have been doing for the past two weeks since this war has started," he said.
TOLEDO, Ohio--Joe the Plumber is taking on a new job.
The Ohio man, who became famous during the U.S. presidential campaign after asking Barack Obama about his tax plan, is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for a conservative Web site called pjtv.com.
Dubbed "Joe the Plumber" by McCain's campaign, Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher was held up as an example of an American worker who would be hurt economically by Obama's election.
Joe now has a book:
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Blade has a detailed writeup of his book:
'Joe' pens memoir on his life, his dream
Like the two men whose campaigns for president he influenced with his unexpected step upon the national political stage, Joe the Plumber has published a book about his life.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081220/NEWS09/812200366
Joe the Plumber Pens Memoir
She is gone, but the taste that is left in the mouth is that Ted did not want to do anything about it. Read more:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081217/NEWS24/81...
http://thurbersthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/12/odjfs-director-helen-jones-...
There is more out there, just am tired and don't want to look anymore :)
Yes! More Joe the Plumber news!
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So Joe's out promoting himself and the unfinished book already on Glenn Beck's radio show (Audio tape below). Don't tell Joe but, frankly, he's museum-grade history as far as 2008 politics are concerned.
But he's still out there talking. Joe admits he's a little more educated than other people about politics. So his insights are worth more. He finds Palin to be "the real deal."
What do you think? If it costs 100 million, is it worth it?
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COLUMBUS -- Legislation designed to keep state employees from using state databases to snoop on people may come with a hefty price tag: More than $100 million.
That's how much one expert estimated it would take to comply with record-keeping requirements sparked by the Joe the Plumber scandal.
I guess when you violate the trust of citizens, all you get is either a letter from the governor and one month off of work or even less in Toledo, a "verbal reprimand". I think that says more about the people making a decision on how to handle and how they feel about the actual crime. Violating the trust of citizens by using government systems to snoop is one of the worst things to be done. Yet others have gone to jail for multiple years for campaign finance violations.
As you now have already heard, Jones-Kelly was put on administrative leave and so far is not going to be fired (yet).
Here is what it takes to only get put on unpaid administrative leave:
1. Inappropriately looking up information on a citizen.
2. Lying about the reasons you are doing so to the media and the public.
3. Forcing a subordinate to write a letter to cover for you.
4. Using state resources on political campaigns.
In what is almost unbelievable, there were now two suspicious inquiries locally about accessing Joe the Plumber information, yet it seems like just crickets chirping with local media. It would be really interesting to request a public records request to check all suspicious background checks from Toledo Police and NW Ohio BMV bureaus and see what shows up. The Columbus Dispatch took the lead on this and has really set things in motion.
I am having Joe the Plumber witdrawl, but the Tufts Daily got me back into the swing of things with a Joe the Plumber fix. He talks about the election, about Sarah Palin, about his comments on Fox, and his potential run against Marcy Kaptur.
Get your fix at:
http://www.tuftsdaily.com/an_interview_with_joe_the_plumber
Also on deck today, is a potential link between Elliot Spitzer, Ted Strickland and Joe the Plumber. Read what the Salem News has to say:
Helen Jones-Kelly is put on administrative leave. It appears there was more than snooping on citizens, now she was raising money using her state e-mail account. Interesting this is released Friday evening to minimize any political fallout. I guess when you make the governor eat his words, you better watch out. The only shame is she is still being paid.
From Columbus Dispatch:
