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Should every citizen who has a question of a presidential candidate expect to be analized by bureaucrats and the media?

Inspector general investigating access to Joe the Plumber's personal information
Monday, October 27, 2008 11:33 AM
Updated: Monday, October 27, 2008 05:48 PM
By Randy Ludlow
The Columbus Dispatch

Ohio's inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on "Joe the Plumber."

Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK'd the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate.
She said there were no political reasons for the check on the sudden presidential campaign fixture though the Support Enforcement Tracking System.


Amid questions from the media and others about "Joe the Plumber," Jones-Kelley said she approved a check to determine if he was current on any ordered child-support payments.


Such information was not and cannot be publicly shared, she said. It is unclear if Wurzelbacher is involved in a child-support case. Reports state that he lives alone with a 13-year-old son.


"Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look" at them, Jones-Kelley said, citing a case where a lottery winner was found to owe past-due child support. "Our practice is to basically look at what is coming our way."


Ohio Inspector General Thomas P. Charles confirmed today that he is investigating the incident to determine if "Joe''s" records were legally accessed by Job and Family Services employees.


The use of a state computer system to search for information on Wurzelbacher is the fourth uncovered by The Dispatch.


Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland [who appointed Jones-Kelly this past January] is satisfied that there are no political overtures to the check on Wurzelbacher, a spokesman said.

Helen Jones-Kelley who authorized the check on poor Joe donated the maximum amount to Barack Obama.


Yep, smear and persecute a common citizen who asks a question of a presidential candidate. The resulting attack which occurred within 24 hours after Joe spoke goes to show that Demos aren't about sticking up for the little guy's right to speak. The media reported that he wasn't licensed and he didn't have enough money to buy a business. So what? That gives them the right to publicly destroy his dreams? The media showed themselves to be a prejudiced tool of Obama on this attack of a US citizen.

Now that Joe is being bused around for rallies he is fair game much like when it was discovered that Cindy Sheehan was a weapon directed by CODE PINK. The Republicans laid off of Sheehan for weeks allowing her to voice her grief, but when it was learned she was hooked up with CODE PINK she became a contestant in the ring.

The initial attack by Democrats via their media stooges was outrageous. What does the man's ambitions vs his finances have to do with his right to ask a question of Obama? Should every citizen expect to be analized by Democrat operatives within the bureaucracy as well as media stooges?

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panama hat

Give it a rest, attaboy . . . neither side has the monopoly on virtue . . . and I believe McCain is the one being roundly criticised for his tactics.

Totally grabbing at straws

Milkman

In another mistake, IMO, McCain is using this poster child, still:

Link & Entire: go to yahoo.com - my email is tied to the link. sorry.

AntRobertson

This keeps getting sillier by the minute:

Joe the Plumber hires his own publicity team - 31 Oct 2008 - NZ Herald: International and World News

panama hat

Maybe he should be the VP nominee . . .

Seriously, the McCain/Palin campaign is getting sillier and less professional every day

Thormaturge

Make him President. He's whiter than Obama and likely to live longer than McCain. Should be a landslide.

Boon Mee

Toledo police clerk charged in Joe The Plumber snooping case. Update: Snooper was doing a favor for a reporter; Joe may sue

Toledo Police have confirmed that a TPD records clerk is accused of performing an illegal search of information related to 'Joe the Plumber.'
Julie McConnell, has been charged with Gross Misconduct for allegedly making an improper inquiry into a state database in search of information pertaining to Samuel Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16.


Wurzelbacher came under the spotlight after being spoken about during the final presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain.



The inquiry into Wurzelbacher's record is a violation of department and state policy governing the use of the Law Enforcement Automated Data System. The clerk is under fire for making the inquiry for a non-law enforcement purpose.
McConnell was hired by the Toledo Police Department in April 1995 and assigned to the Investigative Services Bureau.
A discplinary hearing will be scheduled within the next ten days."


Clerk charged with unlawful search of Joe the Plumber : News : WNWO NBC24

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Boon Mee

Welcome to the Orwellian future that awaits those who ask a question of the Anointed One: State employee says she was ordered to check out Joe the Plumber.

Vanessa Niekamp said that when she was asked to run a child-support check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16, she thought it routine. A supervisor told her the man had contacted the state agency about his case.

Niekamp didn’t know she just had checked on “Joe the Plumber,” who was elevated the night before to presidential politics prominence as Republican John McCain’s example in a debate of an average American.
The senior manager would not learn about “Joe” for another week, when she said her boss informed her and directed her to write an e-mail stating her computer check was a legitimate inquiry.


The reason Niekamp said she was given for checking if there was a child-support case on Wurzelbacher does not match the reason given by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.


So what do Obamathons think of that, eh?

Jet Gorgon

Come on, let's wait to see what the checking will be on BO's social security-collecting illegal immigrant "aunti".

Boon Mee

If there is one type beyond the farthest reaches of progressive tolerance, it is the normal, decent American. Liberal hatred for people like Sarah Palin and Joe Wurzelbacher is nothing short of evil.

Here's San Franfreakshow Obamunist, homosexual activist, HuffPo scribbler, and liberal radio yapper Charles Karel Bouley (aka "Karel") calling for the death of Joe the Plumber during a newsbreak, via Radio Equalizer (warning — the language isn't pretty):

Death is Joe's due for wanting to own a business and having the audacity to ask The One if his taxes would go up.

This should give you an idea of why liberals will need the Unfairness Doctrine if they are ever going to compete with conservatives on the radio. Most Americans just aren't rotten enough to be on their wavelength.

Check It Out

Boon Mee

Well, BO has gone and completely thrown Aunti under the bus — joining Obama’s poor grandmother. Over at 24ahead, Obama was asked by Katie Couric if he supported the deportation of Onyango:

If she is violating laws those laws have to be obeyed. We’re a nation of laws. Obviously that doesn’t lessen my concern for her, I haven’t been able to be in touch with her. But I’m a strong believer you have to obey the law.


Lyin' sack a shut...

Jet Gorgon

^ Well, the libbie media closed the door tight on that story. Same as with Obama saying he would make the coal mining cos go bankrupt (funny that just showed up after all these months). Of course the big news is that he strives on even tho his granma passed on the eve of the election. RIP, Mrs Durham.
Shoulda had more Times reporters over to check out the real stories earlier.

sabang

What would you have him do booner? I suppose your all-American response would be to try and bend or break the laws for her because she's distant family, just like Sarah Palins vendetta against her sisters ex, plus anybody who refused to break the law to fire him from his job.

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Jet Gorgon

^ After all the stuff he wrote about her in his book, you can't tell me he didn't know she was living in the States.

cujo

There are the TRUE Liberal colours.

S Landreth

Rick, the guy working for CNN used to work in Miami,….he’s an ass. Rick ran over someone while he was driving home from a Dolphins (football) game drunk,.the guy who Rick hit died.
However Rick does a good job with the interview with Joe the Plumber.


From Americablog.com:
Tax cheat Joe the Plumber lectures CNN's Rich Sanchez about how his "principles" teach him that rich people shouldn't pay more taxes, but poor people should. Sanchez will have none of it. Which then forces Joe to start whining that he's a private citizen and all these questions are mean. Yeah, Mr. Private Citizen hired an agent and went on Larry King last night. Joe is starting to sound like a bit of a prissy pretty-boy celebrity, to me. Oh, and we learn that apparently, in addition to owing over a thousand bucks in back taxes, a hospital is coming after Joe for $1100 they say he owes them too. Some principles, deadbeat. It's about time someone exposed the little beeyatch.

S Landreth

Piece of work,….Joe the Plumber, has a web site (Secure Our Dream).

Link: http://wonkette.com/404366/joe-the-plumbers-website-is-hilarious

attaboy

Tax cheat? If it's property taxes, it's not uncommon for people to be deliquent. Local governments charge very low interest rates so some people take advantage of the 'low interest loan' so to speak by being deliquent in their payments.

Martin Nesbitt, treasurer of the Obama campaign has tax liens. His corporations have tax liens too. He can find the money to donate to political campaigns but he can't find the time or resources to pay his taxes.

Martin Nesbitt, treasurer of the Obama campaign (Obama is godfather to his son): His personal tax lien, his corporation's tax liens and more

Rev. Wright and the Trinity Church has liens against them too.

Rev. Wright Federal Tax Lien

Cook County recorder of Deeds


About Joe getting an agent and signing with a public relations company. I would guess this is to keep people from exploiting his name. If by chance someone were to make millions of dollars off using me, I would like to have a large portion of the money just to keep them from getting it. I mean, I'll take the money and enjoy it, of course, but I'll enjoy it even more knowing I screwed someone who tried to exploit me. Don't you leftists understand human exploitation? Why don't you want Joe to protect himself?

attaboy

“Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look” at them, Jones-Kelley said, citing a case where a lottery winner was found to owe past-due child support. “Our practice is to basically look at what is coming our way.” - Helen Jones Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services



Haha, looks like Helen 'hit the lottery' too. She deserves it.

S Landreth

Joe the War Correspondent? And what a CNN reporter (Rick Sanchez) thinks of him.

YouTube - CNN's Rick Sanchez vs. "Joe the Plumber"