After having his name driven into the mud by rabid partisans in Ohio for simply asking a question of the messiah, this is welcome news for Joe Wurzelbacher.
“TOLEDO, Ohio – Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter’s notebook.
The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR’-zuhl-bah-kur) says he’ll spend 10 days covering the fighting.
He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to …

By the Democratic Governor of Ohio refuses to fire her.
“Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is standing by an agency director who OK’d improper computer checks for confidential information on “Joe the Plumber” and used state e-mails for political fundraising.
Strickland announced today that Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Department of Job and Family Services, will be placed on unpaid leave for one month in response to an inspector general’s investigation.
The investigation found Jones-Kelley had no legitimate reasons to check on Toledo-area resident Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who was popularized as “Joe the Plumber” …

This story is beginning to gain ground:
“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 …

Talk about getting off the subject. As they are known to do the media is trying to kill Joe the Plumber but exposing his tax lien and the fact that he’s not actually a license plumber. Of course Joe never said he was a license plumber, or a business owner or even made $250,000 a year – the media did.
Nevertheless it’s not about Joe, it’s about Obama and his plan to raise taxes on the American people. The simple fact is that whether you make 10, 20, …