Joe the Plumber expected to run for House of Representatives

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, the everyman of rightwing America, is turning his attention to saving Washington It’s a wonder what five minutes on camera can do for you. On 12 October 2008, Joe the Plumber was a lowly worker whom nobody had heard of. To be accurate, he wasn’t Joe the Plumber at all, he was Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, and he wasn’t licensed to work as a plumber either, but let’s gloss over that. On that day, a would-be president by the name of Barack Obama swung by Wurzelbacher’s neighbourhood in Holland, Ohio, and for five minutes the two men bantered about how Obama’s tax plans would affect Wurzelbacher’s small

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