"Joe The Plumber" Investigation Released

[sabra]

Source: 10TV OH

Joe Wurzelbacher became a national figure in the presidential campaign when Barack Obama and John McCain featured "Joe the Plumber" in their debate.

In a report released Monday, the Ohio Inspector General said there were 18 separate record checks conducted on him following the Obama-McCain debate.

Of those checks, eight were conducted by various agencies without any legitimate business purpose, according to the report.

The report also says Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Director Helen Jones-Kelley authorized some of the searches.

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Gov. Ted Strickland has placed Jones-Kelley on paid administrative leave from her $141,980-a-year job as director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services during the investigation.

Read more: http://www.10tv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2008/11/20/joe_the_plumber.html?sid=102

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[Bette Noir]

1. I want a job where I coud get "paid administrative leave."

On this planet, people who eff up that badly get fired.

[Qanisqineq]

2. me too!

Why are people paid to do nothing when they screw up? I've never understood that one. Sounds like a vacation to me.

[Seeking Serenity]

3. Well, it does go in her "permanent record."

Y'know, that double-secret "file" on you that your principals used to try to scare you into obedience with.

[Mike Daniels]

4. If I went through someone's files at the office for the purpose of discrediting them...

I'd be frog-marched to my desk, given 3 minutes to grab my stuff and frog-marched out.


Sorry...Joe was a tool but this conduct is beyond justification.

[bigworld]

5. I think a lot of these searches are just for curiousity's sake

just like the passport searches a few years back.

[The Wielding Truth]

7. When McCain used him as a national topic in the debate wasn't

that reason to find out who this man was? Isn't any public figure who was so prominently part of our national economic solution open to scrutiny?

[pilgrimm]

11. Sure find out who he is and scrutinize him as much as you like,

the government records that are not public should be off limits.

[Winterblues]

14. Aren't those records Public Records?

:shrug: No one ever said that information was secret..

[sam sarrha]

6. if he said on tv he made hundreds of thousands of dollars or indicated more than he did for what

he ALREADY OWED BACK TAXES ON.. INVESTIGATIONS WOULD BE REQUIRED BY LAW

[Juneboarder]

8. Interesting how they report this...

Wasn't Joe The Plumber a creation of McCain?? The article above states "Joe Wurzelbacher became a national figure in the presidential campaign when Barack Obama and John McCain featured "Joe the Plumber" in their debate."

The least they could do is get the story straight here...

[sam sarrha]

9. ..yea like he wasnt a plunber at all.. had no liscence what so ever..did he do work under the table

like a good ReThuglican who think taxing the rich is a SIN AGAINST GOD

[zbdent]

10. someone should dig up old LTTEs where he went on and on about

how the stupid America-hating liberals were whining about how the government was invading their privacy as it was listening in on them plotting with the terrorists ...

[pilgrimm]

12. He's a hypocrite

That doesn't mean others should be hypocritical in their pursuit of exposing that.

[HopeHoops]

13. And we thought the BUSH ADMINISTRATION had a patent on such tactics!

Well, they inherited it from Nixon and Reagan, and that wimpy guy between him and Clinton.