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.
Here is an interesting article regarding Obama’s Pakistan trip. Wonder who the mystery man in South America is.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088995/posts
“Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army”
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
It is important to remember that the Baathist Parties of Iraq and Syria are Leftist COMMUNIST parties (with an islamic twist. The United States took out Saddam H... (can't say this word in America anymore) and has threatened Assad in Syria. The Left doesn't like to lose governments. Just as Russia doesn't want to lose influence over Georgian Republic.
The Left is hysterical about Iraq because it was an islamic COMMUNIST state. And Bush took it out.
I’ve never quite heard it explained that way before, but what you say makes a lot of sense.
hadn’t read that thread before, thank you for posting it.
I will and you as well. We have to keep the faith. We may not always understand his ways but they are higher than ours.
Where two or three are gathered together agreeing on ANYTHING.
Don’t know if it has been mentioned before, but just heard that Joe will be on Huckabee’s TV show this weekend.
Huckabee doesn’t have a Colmes counterpart does he?
The scariest thing about an Obama Presidency is the fact that Harry Reid and Pelosi will still be in charge of the Senate and House, if the Reps. lose more seats, we will not have any checks and balances. If they continue with their agenda it will be almost impossible to reverse the damage that they have done.
It is very scary. Seeing all of this venom and the assault on Joe is unnerving. Some were telling me a while back it would get very ugly and to be prepared, I had a wait and see attitude, now I think they were right. And if Obama loses, these freaks heads are going to explode. We ain’t seen nothing yet.
Obama pays parking tickets 17 years late
“Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, dismissed the tickets as not relevant.
“He didn’t owe that much and what he did owe, he paid,” Psaki said on Wednesday. “Many people have parking tickets and late fees. All the parking tickets and late fees were paid in full.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17516764/
Why savage calls it san fran sicko.
I’d rather have the hill and bill show than what may be coming.
How many people with million dollar houses, wait 17 years?
I'm sure if Joe were fixing to run for President, he pay off his biils too.
I guess we are supposed to believe that all of these factoids about “Joe” mean that Obama really didn’t say what he said - we were just hallucinating. ;)
Obama supporter. I can tell by reading his blogs.
thank you for posting it.
Huckabee is the lone host of Huckabee.
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