How Mccain was able to remember Joe's name so easily when he couldnt remember if Trig Palin has autism or Down's Syndrome had my bullshit meter on high. I have found out some information and currently looking for more on this guy. I am now fully convinced this guy was a plant. There is a buzz on whether or not he is related to one of the Keating-5 guys. The jury is out there on that one. Read on for more information. But I have some new information.
A search on ancestry.com turns up a Samuel J. Wurzelbacher who lived in 160 W. Keating Drive in Mesa, AZ at some point in the last 20 years.
After the conversation with Obama at the campaign event, Joe the plumber was interview by Fox News and Carol Taber.This is the same Carol Taber who pretended to be a concerned mother, when, in fact, she was a plant for Bush/Cheney in 2004.
Ok now I am connecting the dots here. Joe's real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher as he confirmed to ABC News.
Now a search at Intellius shows that Samuel J Wurzelbacher has the following household relatives:
Phyliss K Wurzelbacher
Phyllis Kay Wurzelbacher
Frank Edward Wurzelbacher
Robert Lee Wurzelbacher (keating?)
Jennifer P Wurzelbacher
Kay Wurzelbacher
Now, here is the link that shows that Robert Wuzrelbacher is Keating's son-in-law in NY Times
There is some internet buzz about Joe the Plumber being related to Robert Wurzelbacher, Charles Keating's son-in-law. Whether or not it is true needs to be verified.
Here are some sources that are reporting this confirming the link
Joe the Plumber is Joe Wurzelbacher. There is a Jan Wurzelbacher associated with a Joe and the address with the building I have pictured below. Earlier tonight I called the number associated with that address and the name Wurzelbacher Bros. and the machine message made no mention at all of any business.
Now to the Keating connection. As mentioned in a previous post the name Wurzelbacher is fairly uncommon so it’s not hard to track down potential connections just using geography and ages to make the likely connections. There is a Robert Wurzelbacher who died in 2004 (possibly deceased is more accurate) who is in the same area and is of an appropriate age to be a parent or uncle to Joe who according to reunion.com is 33. This Robert Wurzelbacher not only had a history of campaign contributions to republicans but is implicated in the Keating Five scandal. The full text of the article relating to this is below. There are other Wurzelbacher contributions to McCain and other republicans in other parts of the country. We are looking into those now. With the confirmation of the last name and the limit number of family members this looks very bad. There is also no such plumbing business listed or advertising and the number I called (I only called one so as not to disturb at a home number late at night) makes no effort to tell you that you have reached a business. This is looking very, very much like an act.
also, now we know that he has no business and has no real plans to buy any business, plumbing or otherwise and doesnt fall in the 250K and over tax bracket
There is probable evidence that he voted in the primaries as a registered republican. However it doesn't mean that he cannot be undecided or for Obama. Just another data point about this guy to consider.
I will continue to look for more information on this. Thanks everyone.
UPDATE 1: I have linked more sources up there
UPDATE 2: I have connected some more dots to Joe the Plumber and the Keating with some links up in the body of the diary.
UPDATE 3. AOL News is now reporting that Joe is indeed related to Keating's son-in-law as confirmed by Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain adviser.
Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain adviser, says not everyone connected to the campaign was thrilled with the invoking of Joe the Plumber during the debate last night. Why not? It turns out, according to Eisenstadt, good ol' Joe is related to Charles Keating.
UPDATE 4: Remember how JTP was so worried about increasing his taxes? Well it turns out he only reported $40,000 on his 2006 tax returns according to yahoo news.
UPDATE 5: ok now I have full blown confirmation the JTP is indeed related to Keating.So it is not a coincidence that JTP just happened to bump into Obama. It was orchestrated and it was stupid. Here is huffingtonpost reporting it.