Joe the Plumber is Broke Wants You to Buy His Book

Instead of plumbing, Joe the Plumber was soaking up the limelight. Now he's broke and has a quick fix book coming out that he hopes people will buy.
I guess you can't blame a guy for trying to pay off his back taxes.
More on his "book" that comes out in December, when he'll be long, long forgotten.
He's got one publisher and is looking for others. This is what Joe says (This is why he didn't actually write the book):

"I am not going to a conglomerate that way we actually can get the economy jump started. Like there is five publishing companies in Michigan. There's a couple down in Texas. They are small ones that can handle like 10 or 15,000 copies. I can go to a big one that could handle a million or two. But they don't need the help. They are already rich. So that's spreading the wealth to me."

Thank you, thank you, thank you my fellow Americans for rejecting this sort of idiocy.

Questions About Joe The Unlicensed Plumber

NYT: On Thursday, he told the Associated Press that he felt like Britney Spears.

“I’m kind of like Britney Spears having a headache,” he said. “Everybody wants to know about it.”

Unlike some other states, Ohio does not have a formal statewide licensing system for plumbers. But the city of Toledo and other municipalities do, Mr. Joseph said, and Mr. Wurzelbacher has not met those requirements.

“All contractors are licensed, and he does not have a license, either as a contractor or a plumber,” the union official said, citing a search of government records. “I can’t find that he’s ever even applied for any kind of apprenticeship, and he has never belonged to local 189 in Columbus, which is what he claims on his Facebook page.”

According to public records, Mr. Wurzelbacher has been subject to two liens, each over $1,000, one of which — a personal tax lien — is still outstanding.

Could it be Joe the Plumber was paid by the McCain camp? If he's just a regular guy, I feel sorry for him. But you can't feel too sorry for him, because he didn't waste any time slamming Obama. As it turns out, he'd get a tax cut under Obama. He needs to get on board with the rest of the licensed plumbers who have endorsed Obama. More hurtin' for Joe from his hometown newspaper.

Mr. Wurzelbacher is registered to vote in Lucas County under the name Samuel Joseph Worzelbacher.

“We have his named spelled W-O, instead of W-U,” Linda Howe, executive director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, said in a telephone interview. “Handwriting is sometimes hard to read. He has never corrected it in his registration card.”

The records, she said, showed he voted Republican in the March primary.

Mr. Wurzelbacher told Ms. Couric that his encounter with Mr. Obama was a matter of impulse.
“Neighbors were outside asking him questions, and I didn’t think they were asking him tough enough questions,” he said. Read more

As this post points out, let's keep in mind that Obama brilliantly answered Joe the Plumber.