"Joe the Plumber", "Joe Six Pack" and all the rest of redonkulously false and mystifying classifications of the American public in this election, is catching on. With so much help from the media, of course. While I didn't see the debates last night, everyone I know was asking "Who the hell is Joe the Plumber?" Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the Plumber who drinks a Six Pack) has been a busy bee floating from one conservative news outlet to the next talking about Obama's tax plan. Which, by the way, would give him a tax cut with this $250k plumbing business. As a small business, your taxable income is much smaller than your gross income.
In the middle of the this celebrity in the making (he considers himself akin to Britney Spears.. any hopes that we will see pictures of his crotch while exiting a car?), the NYTimes decided to actually look into who this new representative of the American "middle class" is. Well according to them, he is an unregistered plumber who owes back taxes.
Here is Joe Biden talking about the Joe Plumbers in his 'hood.
Oct 16, 2008
Ohio Republicans want a repeat of 2004
By
Matt Parker
Scared of what looks to be an Obama landslide, desperate Republicans in Ohio are trying to deny the voting rights of 200,000 newly registered voters because of no-matches. Meaning that the identification they gave on the voter registration forms (Driver's License Number or Social Security Number) did not match their name on government databases. Most of the time this is because of typos when a person's information is entered in to the databases.
Republicans are harping on the case of voter fraud because of recent findings showing that ACORN, who have people get paid by the signature to register voters, has been a big source of no matches in different states. The same type of thing is happening in FL, but it has been proven that many of the people found no matches were because of typos when their information was entered by government employees.
I have no doubt there are probably a many new Jimmy Johns and Ronald McDonald registered near college campuses when you have people getting paid by the signature. Yet, does it really matter? The 1,000 new Jimmy Johns won't be coming out to vote because they don't exist!
This is just another ploy by the Republicans to continue to suppress and deny people their right to vote. They want to create another 2004 where thousands of people in Ohio were denied the right to vote and lead to the state going for Bush. All the more reason for everyone who is able to vote to get out and vote on Nov. 4th so that this election won't be stolen!
Republicans are harping on the case of voter fraud because of recent findings showing that ACORN, who have people get paid by the signature to register voters, has been a big source of no matches in different states. The same type of thing is happening in FL, but it has been proven that many of the people found no matches were because of typos when their information was entered by government employees.
I have no doubt there are probably a many new Jimmy Johns and Ronald McDonald registered near college campuses when you have people getting paid by the signature. Yet, does it really matter? The 1,000 new Jimmy Johns won't be coming out to vote because they don't exist!
This is just another ploy by the Republicans to continue to suppress and deny people their right to vote. They want to create another 2004 where thousands of people in Ohio were denied the right to vote and lead to the state going for Bush. All the more reason for everyone who is able to vote to get out and vote on Nov. 4th so that this election won't be stolen!
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