Thursday, October 16, 2008

This is the latest on who "Joe the Plumber" is.

Obviously you are curious as to who the surprise star of last night's Presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain - aren't you? Here, from NY Mag is the latest scoop:
  1. Joe owes $1,182.98 in back taxes in Ohio.
  2. Joe doesn’t believe in Social Security. "Social Security is a joke. … I don't need another set of parents. … Let me invest my money," he said.
  3. Joe is actually called Sam, and is registered to vote as Samuel Wortzelbacher. “We have his named spelled W-O, instead of W-U,” Linda Howe, executive director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, said in a telephone interview. “Handwriting is sometimes hard to read. He has never corrected it in his registration card.”
  4. Oh, he maybe is related to Charles Keating. What? No, that cannot be true, because that is insane.
  5. But he is definitely not a licensed plumber. “He’s basically playing games with the world,” Thomas Joseph, an official at Local 50 of the plumber’s union, based in Toledo, told the Times.
I hope he enjoys his 15 minutes of fame.

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