apmom wrote:
'Joe the Plumber' wins GOP nomination

newsnet5.com
updated 3/7/2012 1:17:43 AM ET2012-03-07T06:17:43

 

An Ohio plumber thrust into national politics during the 2008 presidential campaign has won the Republican nomination in his home state as he makes a bid for Congress.

Samuel Wurzelbacher gained the nickname "Joe the Plumber" for expressing working-class concerns about taxes to then-candidate Barack Obama during a stop to the region.

The Toledo-area plumber defeated Steve Kraus, a Sandusky real estate agent, early Wednesday to grab the GOP nomination in Ohio's 9th Congressional District.

He faces an uphill climb in the fall against veteran U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who won the Democratic primary. The newly drawn district snaking along the Lake Erie shoreline from Toledo to Cleveland tilts toward Democrats.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46650089?ocid=ansmsnbc11

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For the record, Joe was NEVER a plumber.


I wonder if Joe was on twitter back in 2008? I wonder if the first place he went to was to Rush Limbaugh's site and then next stop Carl Rove's? I wonder, was he really just a guy in the crowd there to ask Obama a question, or was he an activist? If my son went on national tv to whine and beg about taxes I'd be ashamed. He was a middle class man, he should have known when you grow up and get a job, you have to pay taxes. I don't think he was some innocent plumber, I think he had an agenda and just where is his imaginary return, showing how he was over taxed?