New report: Ohio employee was ordered to snoop on Joe The Plumber
It keeps getting uglier. The Columbus Dispatch is reporting tonight that an Ohio state employee is contradicting her superiors; the worker says she was ordered to rummage through Joe The Plumber’s records — and she stated the blindingly obvious truth that such searches had never been done before simply because a citizen had come to public light.
Any outrage yet from the left-wing privacy champions? No, I still just hear chirping crickets. Will Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland stand by his specious claim that there’s nooooooo reason to believe the raids were political?
Read:
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 boss informed her and directed her to write an e-mail stating her computer check was a legitimate inquiry.
The reason Niekamp said she was given for checking if there was a child-support case on Wurzelbacher does not match the reason given by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Director Helen Jones-Kelley said her agency checks people who are “thrust into the public spotlight,” amid suggestions they may have come into money, to see if they owe support or are receiving undeserved public assistance.
Niekamp told The Dispatch she is unfamiliar with the practice of checking on the newly famous. “I’ve never done that before, I don’t know of anybody in my office who does that and I don’t remember anyone ever doing that,” she said today.
I repeat what I said in my column on the plundering of Joe The Plumber’s records today: Welcome to Barack’s Obama.
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FYI–McCain rally in Springfield at 9AM. I’ll be there. I’ll be the one wearing red. (No, not on the stage or anything.)
Y’all come on out. Show up, grab a reporter, and tell them about William Ayers and Rashid Khalidi.
Sorry, that’s Springfield, Virginia.
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I believe she’s just an obamabot trying to save her arsch.
Don’t worry sister nothing will happen to you if you just say everyone is racist for thinking you are a piece of scheiss for spying into a conservatives personal affairs.
So what did the democrats know, which democrats, and when did they know it? Republicans should pursue this business with the same watergate-like ferocity the demoncrats would. Both involved plumbers, correct?
Wishful thinking? Are we so certain? The Right is never going to win back this country until we learn from our enemies and match them fight for fight. They are not invincible and we must stop acting like they are.
Without being too specific — I work for an organization that revised its privacy policies so that if you should find in the database a famous person, you can be fired for even mentioning it to a co-worker. The idea that a supervisor would be mining for information baout someone in our database apropos of nothing is outrageous!
Good for Ms. Niekamp. Now, the Kos Kook Klan is going be harassing her, too. I hope she has a lawyer and as strong a spine as Sarah Palin and JTP.
Exactly beenthere, they’ve lost their spine for a good knock down drag out fight.
rooster wrote:
Don’t be a Demmy and just read headlines. Read the entire Columbus Dispatch story.
Gov. Ted Strickland
did you know this guy is a MINISTER?
This hangs in his office….
Too bad he doesn’t agree with that whole pesky ‘justice, kindness, humble’ thingy part.
I don’t get how these Dems can call themselves Christians and do what they do.
Isn’t this a violation of some provision of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act?? Regarding financial privacy?
Better yet, a violation of Joe’s Civil Rights??
I hope Joe lawyers up with a PHAT
civil rights lawyer and get all Federal on B-Ho’s azz!
They will easily dismiss her since the story said she was a registered Republican.
Sorry, I still don’t buy it. If she’s a registered repub, she would never have snooped on JTP in the first place. Unless of course she’s a citizen RINO. Please color me skeptical!
I live in Dayton, OH, and right now I’m embarassed for the Buckeye State (besides reasons relating to OSU…)
The campaigns are roaring through this state. Biden himself was just in the nearby suburb of Kettering.
Some Quinnipiac poll has Obama up by 12 or something. Let me tell you, IF Obama wins here, it will be by one or two percentage points, not by double digits.
I’m proud Joe the Plumber is from this great and pivotal state. What I’m not proud of his his treatment here along with the terrible picture that Palestra is painting, accurate and timely as their efforts are. The folks of Ohio are good and decent, and I pray they don’t betray my faith in them.
P.S. The McCain-Obama sign ratio seems about even around here in Montgomery county.
And THAT supervisor should be fired immediately. End of story.
Please, if odumbo wins it will be because of Mickey, Donald and Goofy’s absentee vote that the great secretary of state said we can’t verify! Not to mention all the park bench voters that will submit absentee ballots in lieu of voting in person due to their prior engagements making it impossible for them to vote at the actual polls in person.
The liberal hypocrisy meter gets pegged, again.
Some of these liberals who aren’t doing anymore than enjoying the fact that an innocent bystanding Republican supporter gets their life turned upside down are the same liberals who have had no issue with sabotaging this administrations attempts to prosecute the war on terror by wiretapping people who really and truly want to kill us all.
So…murderous enemies of America better damn well have private phone calls but if Barack Obama chooses at random a guy who asks a question that Barack gives of his own volition, an embarrassing answer and an American citizen who’s no threat at all must now be destroyed and the ACLU twiddles their thumbs?
Isn’t there something that keeps the ACLU from accepting public money and playing political favorites?
Liberals are hypocrisy machines.
At this point, I don’t know what story to believe. I certainly wouldn’t put it past this woman’s supervisor to put it off on her in this way. We all know the penchant liberals have for doing all they can to make a Republican the fall guy. If she’s a registered Republican, don’t think for a minute that her supervisor didn’t know or couldn’t find out. Apparently the reporter found out because if the employee gave up her political leanings, it would most likely have been given in a quote somewhere so the reporter could make it more legit to even add that tidbit of information. Regardless, this entire thing stinks to high heaven and a FULL investigation needs to be done. Let’s face it, usually the one doing the dirty work is only one end of the chain of corruption that is behind any wrongdoing.
@ drudge right now.
ZOGBY SATURDAY: Republican John McCain has pulled back within the margin of error… The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all…
Hey, its the only good news we have had for weeks.
Never forget, desperate people do desperate things. Dems are getting more desperate by the hour. One reason Nobama wanted everyone to vote early, once that absentee ballot’s cast, they can’t change their vote no matter what the final hours reveal.
And half of Colorado’s voters already voted as of Wed. Early voting should be declared unconstitutional.
I have all the respect for John McCain but I am getting sick of this bald head plumber. How low we need to be to seek plumbers advice in foreign policy or economic affairs. Let the damn plumber fix our toilets for Gods sack. I trust John Mccain, I trust Sarah Palin, I dont need a plumber to make our economic or foregin policy, No thanks.
Turnout has been about 50% in San Antonio too. Knowing that Obama’s “real” campaign has been a psy-war effort to suppress the Republican vote, I can’t help but begin to feel more optimistic about the whole thing. It’ll still hinge on how many fraudulent votes they manage to slip through.
The good new is, after Tuesday most of our itinerant troll population should go back to their homes on the Kos and Huffington boards and get out of our hair.
What is worse are the number of people who want a community organizer to make our foreign and economic policies, as well as any other that comes along.
I would take the plumber of the organizer.
plumber over the organizer.
I don’t know if anybody’s noticed this article yet, but this is just too rich. It has to be a setup.
tx, I just saw that about 10 mins ago. Nothing amazes me anymore. Well, very little amazes me. They won’t deport her or even report what they are going to do about her until well after the election. No one wants to risk it. What I want to know is how many other illegals are living in public housing?
Rooster wrote:
From the article:
Remember that the Obamabots made a lot of hay about how the guy calling himself “Joe” “really isn’t named Joe, he’s Sam!” as if he was Joe Isuzu. There’s no indication that Niekamp was aware at the time that Samuel J. Wurzelbacher was Joe The Plumber, but it’s obvious Ms. Brown did.
You may very well be right to be skeptical, but I don’t think you are. There’s less basis for poking holes in Mrs. Niekamp’s story than there was Backwards “B” Bimbo’s tall tale last week.
As a fellow “bald head” from the working class, I’m disgusted by your bigoted remarks, NYCdude. I would much rather hear policy from a plumber than a New York elitist who judges a book by its cover. If you have a disagreement with something he’s said, then refute it. But don’t attack the person. That’s what Democrats do.
Sooo… tired… of hearing… about… Joe the … Plum… ber…
Can someone please wake me up when this farce of an election is over? I’ll be in my bunker…
NYCDude wrote:
If McCain wins, it will be because JTP squeezed the honesty out of Obama that McCain couldn’t accomplish in two debates. Joe and Sarah are doing the heavy lifting for McCain. Sad, but true.
Oh, NYCDude, I almost forgot: What “advice in foreign policy or economic affairs” has Joe given to McCain? I must have missed that. Maybe — just maybe – it’s because that has never happened.
I’m just sayin.’
A quick browse through Youtube can bring up just about anything.
McCain and Obama should be a warning to all Americans that we the people are not important to their agendas.
Well we could just let you sleep in……
Yup…and he can be anyone he wants while waiting for his party to seize power and do a major cross-dress of his values (ala Al Gore).\
Also didn’t you know anyone can become a chritian minister these days?…I remember my late father getting an offer in the mail that would herald his ordination (certificate, plaque and all) as a Christian minister if he just paid $25! (He laughed his head off, and never sent away for it)
Needless to say though mother and I enjoyed calling him “Reverend Bob” for weeks…
Ahh a Lion! wrote:
Nice try. Here’s what I wrote in answer to NYCDude:
JTP was speaking for himself, and only himself. He made that clear. He’s not the VP candidate. McCain’s not taking advice from Joe. Nonetheless, Shep tried to ambush Joe, and was begging him to dig himself deeper in than his agreement with the other person. Good for him to recognize the signs. He needs to be more careful if he’s going to be on the trail, though.
And for all you folks who think everyone at Fox News is a rabid right-winger, exhibit A. It’s pretty clear whose side Shep’s on.
see-dubya-hope you enjoyed the rally!
MM and all-
how are we doing in the establishment of the AAJLDF=Average American Joe Legal Defense Fund…
C-CS
Expect to see even more of this, if Obama wins. Dissent will be crushed. It would not surprise me to even see a new revamped version of the Sedition Act passed into law…for our protection, of course. Fairness Doctrine will be the first. Any “Joe the Plumber” will be immediately investigated by the MSM and then the “House committee on un-American activities”.
Just the beginning of the “Talibama”. Let us pray.
umm, watergate?
lesse…
the lie.
then the cover up, implicating others.
the resignation must be next.
I’d gladly replace 90% of the State Department with plumbers. I’d trust them far more on foreign policy.
And kudos to the Columbus Dispatch for not letting this story go gently into that good night.
CSoldier – my post exactly!
How can WE get a fund started for Joe’s legal pursuit of this clear violation of his privacy?
Any webmasters and lawyers out there available to set up a fund for donations?
Okay – joetheplumberfund.com is available.
What’s the next step? I know a bit about setting up a website (design/marketing-side), so someone help me out with the legal side. I’m ready to go!!!!!
Ask Hillary Clinton. She was involved in the “Watergate” Investigation. She probable knows the whole routine. If there’s political hay to make she’ll be there. I wouldn’t worry about Joe. There is sure to be a million dollar book deal soon.
I’m looking for ya See-Dubya! Tell them Sarah should do a sit-down with Michelle too…
Wow, McCain was pumped!
I can now proudly say that I am a subscriber to the Cols. Dispatch, though, I must admit that I am still a bit shocked that they would report on what appears to be partisan Democrat political shenanigans.
However, I am not the least bit surprised that the left-wing privocrats are silent on these blatant invasions of a citizen’s privacy. When the Palin email hacking story broke, those left wingnuts were falling all over themselves because they thought they were going to find a virtual cornucopia of “dirt” on the Republican VP candidate that would force her out of the race. The furthest thing from their minds was the violation of the law protecting the privacy of email accounts and the dangerous precedent that would be set if investigations and prosecutions were allowed to be pursued based on illegally-obtained information. Imagine living in a society where individuals could be “contracted” to hack into someone else’s email account to obtain potential incriminating evidence and then turn it over to law enforcement investigators all without the need to provide the justification for a search warrant.
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Ignorance, our most costly commodity – paraphrased from Rush Limbaugh.
I missed the rally–croaky kids who I don’t think were up for a three hour rally.
Plus, it’s McCain. If it was Palin we’d have gone.
Don’t worry, Mrs. Seedub will be out knocking doors this afternoon.
I see we have a couple of Obama supporters clandestinely working the site. Nice try.
Joe asked an intelligent question and got an answer that Obama wished he never said out loud. The fact that he’s bald and didn’t go to an ivy league school give him even more credence to speak out in my mind.
I am Tito the builder.
…just more proof the OBAMA IS THE “DIRTY BOMB” that will bring destruction to America…
His treachery must be stopped cold, and without compromise.
As I stated previously, the whole “checks-on-people-thrust-into-the-spotlight” argument doesn’t hold water; it’s lipstick on the pig of intimidation – it’s the threat of government brought to bear upon those who would deny the powers that be the potential for a Democrat presidential victory.
Joe should sue and this incident investigated.
Furthermore – anyone notice the deafening silence coming from the Obama camp on this ordeal?
Yeah, because they were behind the entire scheme to begin with. Amazing.
If he wins, expect major IRS audits for critics…just like the Clinton years.
I am the only one who sees the double standard here?
Obama flies to Hawaii to make sure that his birth records are sealed and can not be released, yet stays silent when information is publicly released about Joe the Plumber?
The Stasi were so successful because they relied on “concerned citizens” to do their work for them. Children spying on parents, neighbors snooping on those who spoke out. The Obots have gotten the message to be “teh One’s” little helpers.
Child Support search quidlines violated.
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/10/joe-the-plumber-ohio-records-illegal-child-support-searches-violate-laws/
We lived up in NE Ohio (Youngstown-Warren area) for a number of years. This sort of behavior is pretty standard there: the area is pretty much run by a troika of the Mafia, the Democrat/Communist party, and crooked unions. (Check, sometime, the activities of Gus Hall of the Communist Party USA in that area).
We saw, up close, close associates of crooked judges, felonious Congresscritters (think Jim Traficant), and contract killers defended as being ”good friends of the working man”. Not to mention the efforts of mobbed-up real estate developers and sports franchise owners.
The rot has extended through most of the state, and certainly has extended into the statehouse and state-level agencies. Most people who live there know it, it’s becoming very much like Michigan.
You really think that these creeps will hesitate to employ *any* means to attack someone opposed to their machinations?
Ohio has been a nest of bare-knuckle corruption for more than half a century. This is nothing new. I’m just surprised that anyone is surprised.
Ohio, in our rear-view mirror as we left, was a lovely sight.
Katie Couric is in the pike position until election day and cannot be disturbed.
PS – what is “election day” anyway? Whatever happened to the quanit notion that by all voting on the same day we couldn’t be driving around and voting multiple times? Oh…sorry…
quanit = quaint of course…
Helloooo? MSM? ACLU? Anybodyyy home? Why are you hiding? Please come out, you’ve got some work to do.
Hmmm, pretty quiet in there. Maybe better go in to see if they’re alright. Now where are you… Not in the computer room or office… Oh there you are! What are you doing under the bed? Now stop acting like children and get to work. And don’t give me that excuse that you still have 87 trash bags of reciepts from Alaska to go thru.
What’s foregin policy, NYCDude? Tippling on the bottle a bit too much? Perhaps you would feel better going back to some Third World country where you can live under a monarchy. Apparently you haven’t the stomach for a federal republic, you elitist ass.
“State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor, the ploughman will decide it as well, and often better, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.” – Thomas Jefferson
I have many people that I know that are librarians, plumbers, carpenters, teachers, etc. And they are some very wise people. I wish we could get some of them in Washington. I would trust them a lot more than some guy that never had a real job in his entire life like the socialist. He has lived off of the money of other people his whole life and now wants to let the losers of society get my money to buy their drugs and “bling”.
Gooooo Palin!
Shepard, you biased lefty, how about Obdummy and his pal Khalidi? duh!!!
Fox is getting more left day by day, Britt even sounds like a moderate anymore.
Secretary of Treasury: Joe the Plumber
Secretary of Labor: Tito the Builder
McCain/ Palin ‘08
Palin/ Jindal ‘12 and beyond
I told my husband just yesterday, Shepard Smith is absolutely in the tank Obama!
It’s just sad. I understand why the Obama Campaign would be interested in to who this individual is, but either do it on the down low, or don’t do it at all. He made a hero out of someone who owed back taxes. Strange to me.
Vanessa Niekamp: ““I’ve never done that before, I don’t know of anybody in my office who does that and I don’t remember anyone ever doing that.”
Looks like it’s time for the Democrats to start investigating Vanessa Niekamp to see what dirt they can find to shut her up.