Schaffer and Joe the Plumber related by marriage
By Ed Sealover, Rocky Mountain News
Published October 27, 2008 at 4:25 p.m.
Updated October 27, 2008 at 4:35 p.m.
GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer.
Photo by Associated Press
Joe Wurzelbacher, dubbed "Joe the Plumber" by the McCain campaign.
Bob the U.S. Senate candidate, it turns out, is related by marriage to Joe the Plumber.
Joseph Wurzelbacher, the now-famous Ohio plumber referenced by Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the last presidential debate, has a family connection to GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer. But before anyone starts requesting autographs, know this: Neither Schaffer nor his wife, Maureen, have met Joe.
The Schaffers are natives of the Cincinnati area. Since Joe came to light, Schaffer has found out that Wurzelbacher is a distant cousin of Maureen's father, who also happens to be a plumber.
The topic came up as Schaffer shook hands with campaign volunteers at a Lakewood phone bank Monday afternoon. When one volunteer jokingly asked him: "Are you Joe the Plumber?", Schaffer responded that he wasn't but that Joe was in his in-laws' clan of the same name.
"I knew there were a bunch of Wurzelbachers out there ...(but)I thought 'How many could there be?'," he said.
Campaign staffers said there is no plans in the offing for a Plumbers for Schaffer caucus, however.
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October 27, 2008
4:38 p.m.
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UncleZancle writes:
Funny the News can get this story, but missed Tom Tancredo announcing for Governor last Thursday.
October 27, 2008
4:41 p.m.
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O_TRAIN writes:
J the P probably doesn't want this getting out. I mean to vote Repub is one thing, but to be related to one.....
October 27, 2008
5:26 p.m.
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gfurzi writes:
Poor Joe the Plumber!
October 27, 2008
6:29 p.m.
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ratlins writes:
Undecided? Love pugs? Check out this spoof on McCain and Obama's tax policies:
"Mr Tiddles's Election Guide: taxes"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpKw3S...
It's hilarious!
October 27, 2008
6:32 p.m.
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Brunowolfe writes:
Whoa, first Joe is found out to not be a licensed plumber, doesn't understand how either tax plan would affect his fantasy about buying his bosses business,,,,,,and now this?
Man, the hits just keep on coming for this guy! Guess his hope for hosting SNL is shot now.....
October 27, 2008
7:30 p.m.
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Spencer writes:
I thought gay marriage was illegal
October 27, 2008
9:03 p.m.
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EZBakeOven writes:
This is all so delicious...
October 27, 2008
9:20 p.m.
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Speak writes:
Maybe if you Dems go dig into NOBamas garbage,
hack into a government computer (it’s been done) you know how
you could track down his birth certificate.
Ask Toot (his grandma) where the hospital is that he was born in
Who is the real NOBama?
Never mind him let’s attack hard working Americans
Anyone that is not running for the Oval office
Attack anyone who questions NOBama…
Call me if you dig up anything “I’ll be on my cell”
October 27, 2008
9:52 p.m.
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EZBakeOven writes:
Bitter much, Speak?
October 27, 2008
9:56 p.m.
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AC writes:
Speak writes: "Maybe if you Dems go dig into NOBamas garbage,
hack into a government computer (it’s been done) you know how
you could track down his birth certificate."
Found it: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shar...
As well as many other places how could you have missed it? It's been out for well over a year.
Now. where's McCain's birth certificate? He wasn't born on US soil.
October 27, 2008
10 p.m.
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Speak writes:
You mean "Bittergate" we are all family......
"Working-class voters "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them"
You Dems are the Kinder gentler party
Call me better yet, send me my check that should sooth me............
October 27, 2008
10:10 p.m.
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Speak writes:
Hawaii Gov Seals Obama Birth Certificate October 27th, 2008
"The story of Barack Obama’s “natural born” citizenship status took an unusual turn today after Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle effectively barred anyone but Obama himself from obtaining a copy of his birth certificate. Gov. Lingle cited privacy laws meant to deter identity theft for the action. So far Obama has not requested it"
October 27, 2008
10:16 p.m.
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AC writes:
Speak: You're not very smart, are you. *All* birth certificates are confidential and available only to the subject or someone designated by the subject. You cannot go in and request someone else's birth certificate (except immediate family). This is a non-story. In any case it's a lie that "so far Obama has not requested it" because he DID request it last year as proven by the act that it has been posed ONLINE in many places including: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shar...
Gov. Lingle did not "seal" Obama's birth certificate... laws in every state already do so. But as I said, you've already seen Obama's.
Where's McCain's?
October 27, 2008
10:36 p.m.
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Uno writes:
In any case it could get interesting with Barack.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.ph...
October 27, 2008
10:43 p.m.
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Speak writes:
"You're not very smart, are you"..
Can't disagree without being disagreeable can you dems..
Welfare is coming...... good skooling also pass me my voucher
better yet write me a check...I want that rich man's ed-u-macation
"At PolitiFact.com, we’re all about original sources
On June 13, 2008, Obama’s campaign finally released a copy
Where is the embossed seal and the registrar’s signature
Comparing it to other Hawaii birth certificates, the color shade is different. Isn’t the date stamp bleeding through the back of the document “June 2007?” (Odd since it was supposedly released in June 2008.)" There’s no crease from being folded and mailed.
Photoshopped, wholesale fraud.?"
All we ask of our President is for an Authentic Birth certificate
NOBama can't call in the order.......He can be reached by cell!
Temper yourself you are the kinder gentler party....
October 27, 2008
10:49 p.m.
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AC writes:
Speak writes: "Can't disagree without being disagreeable can you dems..Welfare is coming...... good skooling also pass me my voucher better yet write me a check...I want that rich man's ed-u-macation."
You've clearly got problems, sport.
"On June 13, 2008, Obama’s campaign finally released a copy
Where is the embossed seal and the registrar’s signature"
Uh, it's on the document. Did you not see the pictures on FactCheck? Raised seal and all. You clowns are truly pathetic... and hate-filled delusionists.
"Comparing it to other Hawaii birth certificates, the color shade is different. Isn’t the date stamp bleeding through the back of the document “June 2007?” (Odd since it was supposedly released in June 2008.)" There’s no crease from being folded and mailed.
Photoshopped, wholesale fraud.?"
Nope. It's authentic.
Now for the third time, where's McCain's? Of the two, he's the one we *know* wasn't born in the US!
"ll we ask of our President is for an Authentic Birth certificate NOBama can't call in the order.......He can be reached by cell!"
It's online, chum.
"Temper yourself you are the kinder gentler party...."
Indeed. The record shows that for sure.
October 27, 2008
11:09 p.m.
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Speak writes:
Just In October 27th 2008
"WND also found on microfilm in the Honolulu downtown public library a notice published under the "Births, Marriages, Deaths" section of the Honolulu Sunday Advertiser for August 13, 1961, on page B-6, noting: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack II Obama. 6085 Kalanianaole-Hwy, son, Aug. 4."
"In searching through the birth notices of the Honolulu Advertiser for 1961, WND found many birth notices were published between one and two weeks after the date of birth listed"
"The notice in the Honolulu Advertiser does not list the hospital where the Obama son was born or the doctor who delivered the baby"
"In a startling development, Obama's Kenyan grandmother has reportedly alleged she witnessed Obama's birth at the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya."
Who needs enemies when you can turn to a family member
We..Wuz..Robbed!
October 27, 2008
11:20 p.m.
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Openminded1 writes:
Think about it, before this man even thought about running, they check the living sh-t out of him, from top to bottom. Come on be for real......
October 27, 2008
11:24 p.m.
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Speak writes:
And in tonights follow-up story.......
"Obama Born In Kenya? His Grandmother Says Yes!"
"israelenews.com — Someone is lying. According to Obama's Kenyan (paternal) grandmother, as well as his half-brother and half-sister, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii as the Democratic candidate for president claims. His grandmother bragged ... that she was present in the delivery room ... in Kenya! "
"Where all my boy's at ...I had a jacka..(Donkey)
by the tail..bark if you hear me!"
October 27, 2008
11:35 p.m.
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Openminded1 writes:
Wow now the average citizens can find out things the FBI, CIA, Military Intel, Naval Intel, OSI, Mossad, the Republican watchdogs, and Wasilla Police Dept. can find. We know that everyone of these groups is investigating him.
October 27, 2008
11:40 p.m.
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Speak writes:
"Even if he was born in Kenya, the fact that his mother is an American citizen negates the whole attack"
And so there you have it, same scenario for McCain
It was fun........I'm out good-night
October 27, 2008
11:43 p.m.
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me2 writes:
If Obama was born in Kenya, that would have made him a duel citizen: U.S. and Great Britain. Not Kenyan. GB would have let his citizenship drop unless he himself, as an adult, requested it to go on.
But his mom was an American citizen, so no matter where he was born, he is a citizen.
Still I know it is hard to give up on a cherished conspiracy theory, especially when there are dueling grandmothers, unusual looking birth certificates and no doctor or hospital on the certificate. So look at other Hawaiian ones, do they all look the same or was Hawaii in on this lo those many years ago?
Since the man has a passport and is a senator I doubt there is anything left to discover about him.
Berg lost his lawsuit. One of his points, the certificate was entered on the 8th and Obama was born on the 4th. Well the 4th was Friday and then there is Saturday, then Sunday, and well it should have been registered on Monday but the conspiracy was just getting underway and they were new at the game.
How you all can quote grandmothers on third hand information only says how badly you want this to be true.
Now, I have it on the authority of his second cousin that McCain was switched at birth with another , and he really belongs to a Kennedy girl who was hiding her pregnancy in the islands.
My Gawd, that would make him a Democrat.
October 28, 2008
1:28 a.m.
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clyde writes:
The six removals from Kevin Bacon. We are ALL related, and closer than most would think.
October 28, 2008
10:23 a.m.
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Speak writes:
"Still I know it is hard to give up on a cherished conspiracy theory, especially when there are dueling grandmothers"
Reading is fundamental:
"the fact that his mother is an American citizen negates the whole attack"
That statement..........agrees with you. My Gawd you are a JackA..(dem)