Ohio official who snooped Joe the Plumber’s records is an Obama donor
I ask again: Will the privacy champions come to Joe the Plumber’s defense?
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More: Ohio’s inspector general is investigating…
Ohio’s inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on “Joe the Plumber.”
Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK’d the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate.
She said there were no political reasons for the check on the sudden presidential campaign fixture though the Support Enforcement Tracking System.
Amid questions from the media and others about “Joe the Plumber,” Jones-Kelley said she approved a check to determine if he was current on any ordered child-support payments.
Such information was not and cannot be publicly shared, she said. It is unclear if Wurzelbacher is involved in a child-support case. Reports state that he lives alone with a 13-year-old son.
“Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look” at them, Jones-Kelley said, citing a case where a lottery winner was found to owe past-due child support. “Our practice is to basically look at what is coming our way.”
Ohio Inspector General Thomas P. Charles confirmed today that he is investigating the incident to determine if “Joe’’s” records were legally accessed by Job and Family Services employees.
The use of a state computer system to search for information on Wurzelbacher is the fourth uncovered by The Dispatch.
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Not true. The child support is agreed upon in the final dissolution of marriage (if married). The agreement could state that he pays child support to the mother and that she has custody. Afterwards, she can do what the heck she wants and he still has to pay UNTIL he changes the final order which (coming for someone who has been there) will NEVER happen. So, she can abandon the kid and the dad could be keeping the child but he is still on the hook for the support. If he stopped paying, he is in arrears. He cannot stop paying just because his child is living with him full time. The system is still skewed towards the female – it just is and don’t tell me otherwise.
I called this gal’s office and told them I believe the Director should be fired for using a state agency to further her candidate’s campaign. They asked me if I wanted to leave my name and I said “heck no, the way Obama operates the same thing would happen to me.” What was intriging to me is that they were unaware of what she had done. Does anyone believe that?
Off topic, but I was thinking about the World Series game. If Phila wins, the series will be over tonight. That means that The One will have his 1/2 hour infomercial tomorrow before a non-existant game. Thus, a far smaller audience than he was hoping for. Of course, I wouldn’t put it past him to somehow “fix” the game so that TampaBay wins and it has to go to 6 games!! Do you think he could arrange that?
wishful thinking. anything that goes wrong in the future will be blamed on the scapegoats, christians, jews, republicans, whites…
and the deluded masses will buy it…becaus Obama ‘cares’ for them…
How many “soon-to-be-voters” do you think know anything at all about this, or actually care enough to look into it for themselves? Do you think that our fellow citizens have any sense of real trouble brewing?
She is a government employee. SHE CAN’T BE FIRED. She may be reprimanded (oh golly gee!) She can do what she wants.
This is why big bureaucratic government is dangerous and inefficient.
It matters not whether any info was made public. The question is whether there was justification for the search.
For example, a cop just can’t do a lookup on someone’s license plate number. Cops have been reprimanded and in fact fired for this in NJ.
Using state or Fed databases for personal curiosity is a violation of policy at the least, or a crime at the most.
I still think the Catholics and the Jews are going to go for McCain. If the Jews are at all alert and listening to the issues and Obama’s obvious anti-semetic leaning, they will not vote for him! I know they have been democrat in the past, but this One is so over the top, even the Jews have to reject him…! McCain is going to get a lot more votes than the polls are showing. I have not despaired!
Well, there’s a f***ing surprise…
And, maybe there WAS justification. That’s all I’m saying. However, added to all the other snooping, I would tend to believe this was snooping too.
Happyscrapper, to answer your remark about HR checking records:
Mr. Wurzelbacher wasn’t applying for a job with her department. He was not committing any crime and there was no legitimate need to do that kind of search on his records. Slight difference than checking on a prospective employee’s potential debts.
Happy… I get it that you are being objective about this… but what wildly bizarre set of coincidences would need to exist that would cause them to HAPPEN to do a search the DAY AFTER he appeared on TV?
The odds of that are…
Spock… what are the odds of that?
“7,451,752… to 1, Jim”
See what I mean? The lookup was done to dig for dirt on Joe the Plumber. Plain and simple.
There is a poll up you get to decide for yourselves what “Redistribution of Wealth” means.
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/10/media-picking-up-on-obamas-dubious.html
Settle down. I’m sure they looked up everyone that has asked a question in Ohio’s records…without a doubt!
Good point. But that was the reason why I thought it might be legit! IF they saw him, a single dad, and now knew where he was living, wouldn’t it have been prudent to check their records to see if he might possibly be in there as a deadbeat they might be looking for? Maybe that is standard. Has anyone checked to see if they do this as standard practice? I know it’s a stretch. I think you guys are right. I was just trying to play “devil’s advocate” like my spouse tells me to do, and to keep an open mind. It is very very suspicious, so you are probably right.
O.K. This answer is just silly. First of all, I didn’t say ALL Ohio’s records. We were talking about Child Support records. And I didn’t say “without a doubt”. I said “maybe” this one particular search was legit, if they did it as standard practice to find deadbeat dads. Enough said.
NJ-Aviator. She has an excuses. They would need to prove intent and that entails reading her mind. She won’t be fired. She’ll get a slap on the wrist.
Nonsense. They should have checked when he got his apprenticeship license. Asking a question of a politician has nothing to do with an increase in income, as was the case with the lottery winner.
I found her contact info if anyone out there wants to express their views on her Naziesque tactics:
Helen E. Jones-Kelley
Executive Director
Montgomery County Children Services
3304 North Main Street
Dayton, OH 45405
Email: hkelley@montcsb.org
Phone: 937-276-1738
Fax: 937-276-6601
Hands off the keyboards! All you right -wing reactionaries, spreading hate about “The One”, have been placed on our “Obama Enemies Database” . The OED is a list of mentally ill folks who will need to be transfered to one of our isolated camps in Ozarks for electrical stimulation and intense socialization skills training, after the coronation…er …. election, Your screen names are now in our database, and we will hunt you ….. er…… track you down …. er …. find out where you reside, and make sure that your Social Security records will be also be erased…… er….. misplaced. Oh, one other minor detail, your families and friends too.
The PERSON who looked up “JOE THE PLUMBER’S” records was a B. HUSSEIN donor??? To quote that great American icon, GOMER PYLE,”SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE.”
I dare them to come to the Ozarks. Even in sarcasm.
Why did I just start hearing banjos?
Since she is an Obama supporter any insanity defense on her part would probably be quite effective. She can sit in the courtroom staring blankly ahead into space mumbling, “Hope and Change; Hope and Change……..”
It would probably work.
I’m not sure of
as in under no circumstances, never ever, etc.
However, for practical purposes, you are, unfortunately, most likely correct.
A not inapprpriate segue…as Edwin Edwards – another
democratsocialist (at least, that was his party affiliation), and another Louisianian (and who, BTW, as far as I am aware, is currently in Federal prison)- said about 25 years ago:“The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy”.
That seems to be sort of what level of wrongdoing (I know, I know…who am I to call it wrongdoing?!) would be needed to get rid of some bureaucrats (unless they are of the wrong political party); or to impeach some appointed judges; or to convince so many of the electorate about the danger of cetrtain candidates.
Do you think that maybe this was a “hate search”?
Excellent post and point.
Oh man…ROTFLMAO!!!
happyscrapper:
…who have custody of their own child.
Yep, they’re always nailing those custodial parents with failure to pay child support to themselves, aren’t they?
I think we should flood Gov. Ted Strickland’s office too. He appointed Jennifer Bruner after the Mark Dann fiasco so Teddy is also responsible for the voter fraud here in Ohio. In addition, Teddy can remove Ms. Jones from her office for abuse of power.
Thank you and.. Thank you. lol
And many Double-Fizbins’ back atcha…
Again…shadows from the past rearing their heads into the present.
Go back in time to Germany, 1932-45. Look and see what happened to any and all people in that country that DARED to question The Fuerher. Look what became of the simplest citizen who had the audacity to speak out against or question anything that was said or done by The State.
Neighbors were against neighbors and even a person’s own children were encouraged to report their parents should they be overheard talking against The Fuerher, his policies, his statements etc.
I have been just flabbergasted at the millions of parallels between Germany 1922-39 ever since Obama spoke at the DNC in 2004. It is just staggering. The “Cult of Personality” that surrounds him all the way down to the way people describe listening to him talk and being in his presence.
Anyone can go and find out the way Hitler was described by the citizens of pre-WWII Germany. Go ahead and do it. Then compare that with the way people describe him, listening to him, and being in his presence.
Who will the leaders of the Opposition (Underground) be?
I have been alive from Johnson until the present, and never before have I ever seen or heard about anything like this in this country. The only thing that comes close in a millinia is Germany 1922-38. Right down to the Obama Faithful identifying themselves with their blue shirts, their own seals, flags, symbols…
Someone will internet vet her. She now meets the requirements for that standard practice.
Nasty government snoop meets nasty internet snoops. What a wonderful culture we have! s/
It’s ok though, right? Since she’s a Dem and double whammy, an Obamabot??
Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov described the four stages of
“Ideological Subversion”
(also known as “Active Measures” and “Psychological Warfare“) as:
The Demoralization stage could very well be the reinterpretation of the First Amendment to mean “Separation of Church and State”.
The Destabilization stage could very well be the Destabilization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The Crisis stage could very well be the current financial crisis, as well as the Manufactured Crisis that Senator Joe Biden has assured us is certain to happen in the first six months of an Obama presidency.
It is reported that Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden, speaking in Seattle on Sunday, October 19, 2008, said:
The next President of the United States will likely determine whether or not we enter the fourth and final stage:
Communist “Normalization”
Those “really tough decisions” Biden was confidently predicting could be to impose Martial law and rewrite our Constitution.
I also personally suspect that the “international crisis” would be:
a nuclear weapon being detonated in Washington, D.C.,
and Obama moving the seat of government,
just like he moved the seat of the DNC,
to Chicago (home of the Communist Party USA).
I base this suspicion on several things Obama has said and done, including his talking about being able to walk from his house to the Chicago Olympics when he is President.
Washington, D.C. is home to many primary sources that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that our nation was founded as a Christian nation. I think the Godless Communists would like to see that all destroyed in seconds.
I clearly don’t want to see that happen, but Joe Biden assured us:
How did the Communists test John Kennedy?
With the Cuban Missle Crisis, which brought us to the brink of nuclear war.
The Russians could never attack us directly with missles, but could indirectly via Jihadist terrorists…
…just as I suspect they did on 9/11/2001.
The communists aren’t going to test Obama, he’s one of them.
I’m running low on stripper clips for my 7.62×54R Mosin-Nagant M38. Eight hundred eighty rounds takes 176 of them. Guess I’m going to the Wanenmacher show in two weeks.
“Assimilate this!”
I will not go quietly.
ECS
That is an Orwellian comment that is beyond belief. The message is clear: stay obscure, don’t ever be identified in public or we will be taking a look at you. I’d be scared, but I’m too rebellious to ever be intimidated by these social fascists.
And yet when we monitor terrorist phone calls, the left comes unglued!
Helen is just following the example of her Democrat heros like Bill Clinton who sicked the IRS on his enemies. Those singled out for audits included:
Clinton paramours Gennifer Flowers and Liz Ward Gracen, sexual assault accusers Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick, and fired White House Travel Office Director Billy Dale.
Just a coincidence, right?
When Bush and Cheney “spy” on suspected terrorists, its a horrible violation of civil rights. But when Democrats in power single out lawful Americans to spy on just because they don’t like their politics, it’s no big deal. It’s only “Big Brother” when Republicans do it.
Did anyone see the treatment that Fox’s Shep Smith gave Joe the Plumber this afternoon…He has got the be the worst personality on the Fox lineup…would live to see him grill the great O man like that…he’d be investigated for sure…
““Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look” at them, Jones-Kelley said”
If only the MSM used that same strategy on Obama. But nooooo. Questioning the One draws far more scrutiny (e.g. Joe and the husband of the Biden interviewer) than the countless questionable associations and stated beliefs of Obama himself.
A part of me wants to see the MSM get what they want in a trinity of power. When they can’t bash Republicans anymore they would have to look within. And what a funny day that would be when the police state tactics were used against them.
On October 28th, 2008 at 4:04 pm, rich8450 said:
I saw it and came right back to the computer to see if anyone else did. Smith is truly a POS. Since when does anyone employed by FOX need to be an Obama apologist. He spent 3 minutes trying to get Joe to stick his foot in it. The problem is, that Joe is smarter than Shep. Joe saw him coming from a long way off and just stepped out of the way. Then Shep had to explain to the viewers that Obama was a tried and true friend of Israel. What crap.
Maybe we can sign Ms. Jones-Kelly to vet Obambi, if she swears under oath that she will publish all that she sees. She can check all the various agencies carrying a record on Barry Hussein Soetero Obama.
Hey – it’s Ohio.
“Nothing to see here, folks … move along!”
The Gestapo used a very similar explanation for routing out Jews. “You were brought to our attention.”
Chilling
Is the inspector General a republican or democrat? How about leaving it up to a Grand Jury to make an indictment?