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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe the Plumber takes union job at Chrysler
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Mr. Wurzelbacher, 40, of Springfield Township, who once was vilified as an "unlicensed plumber," said he was on his fourth day today and taking a smoke break at the time, when he was accosted by a co-worker as a teabagger, a derogatory term used for Tea Party members.
In long message, Mr. Wurzelbacher said, I was just recently hired on at Chrysler, and explained that while he's known as a conservative, he's not an enemy of private unions.
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"Yes, I have a website that puts out conservative news. Yes, I am part owner of a gun company. Yes, Im a Republican who was cast into the limelight for having the temerity to confront Barack Obama on the question of redistributing wealth
But Im a working man and Im working, he wrote.
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In 2012, Mr. Wurzelbacher unsuccessfully ran for the 9th Congressional District as the Republican nominee against U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo).
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/02/17/Joe-the-Plumber-Wurzelbacher-hired-by-Chrysler-Corporation.html
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Yet another conservative bailed out by the goodness of liberal ideas.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)he was technically at the time an "unlicensed apprentice"
and it's not "vilifying" someone if it's the truth...
Iggo
(47,581 posts)Initech
(100,118 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,350 posts)Yeah, I make err, I'm going to make err, I wanna make $200k... yeah that's the ticket.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Chakab
(1,727 posts)original fifteen minutes of fame was bullshit.
He said that he was planning to purchase his boss's plumbing business but wouldn't be able to do so if Obama implemented his plan to raise the tax rate on the top bracket back to what it was in the 90s.
The facts were that was that he wasn't planning to buy his boss's business, that he only made about $30,000 a year at the time and that wasn't even paying his taxes because he had liens on his property. Even if he had been in a position to buy his boss's company, Obama's original tax plan wouldn't have in any way affected the business because his boss didn't make anywhere near $250,000 a year after expenses.
The entire thing was horseshit, and he was forced to concede that Obama's plan wouldn't have any conceivable effect on him in an interview on CNN. It's another example of an imbecile who's barely middle class but identifies with the top 1% of income earners in the country and thinks that any slight increase in their taxes somehow "hurts" him.
It's ridiculous that this guy is still getting any press so many years after the fact.
lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)Count on it. Once a weasel, always a weasel.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Thanks Obama (should be tattooed on his forehead)
mazzarro
(3,450 posts)Anti-union Joe takes a union job from a company that the socialist/communist/evil Obama bailed out?
This is the height of hypocrisy!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)denverbill
(11,489 posts)You know, the one he was on the verge of buying right up until Obama's 'tax increase' which never happened.
Chakab
(1,727 posts)business loans.