“Joe the Plumber” Loses Privacy Invasion Lawsuit

from the Columbus Dispatch:

A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit by Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher – the northwestern Ohio man immortalized as “Joe the Plumber” in the 2008 presidential campaign – alleging that three high-ranking state bureaucrats violated his privacy by running his name through confidential databases.

U.S. District Court Judge Algenon L. Marbley said Wurzelbacher could not show that he had been harmed by the snooping.

Three top managers of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services ran database checks of Wurzelbacher, who briefly vaulted to fame in October 2008 when he confronted then-candidate Barack Obama about the effects of his tax policies on Wurzelbacher’s Toledo-area plumbing business. He then teamed up with Obama’s opponent, Sen. John McCain, at several campaign events and was mentioned several times by McCain in the campaign’s final debate.

Wurzelbacher sued the state in March 2009. He claimed that the search came as retaliation for his speaking out against Obama and that it had violated his constitutional privacy rights.

Marbley disagreed.

“Without allegations of a more specific and concrete nature as to the harms he suffered, (Wurzelbacher) does not meet the constitutional threshold required to state a claim for First Amendment retaliation,” the judge wrote.

for the rest of James Nash’s article: http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/08/05/copy/judge-tosses-out-joe-the-plumber-privacy-lawsuit.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

Pics as the “Tea Party Express” Rolls toward DC

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The Public Isn’t Buying What DC is Trying to Sell

     Spin it anyway that they want, the American public, the “average Joe”, just isn’t buying what the Obama administration and the Congress is trying to ramrod at us:

We’ve just been “Eff’d” by Obama: No Dinner, No Movie, Nothing!!

     Simple, direct and to the point: President Barack Obama has just signed the most massive piece of legislation, reportedly designed as an economic stimulus package, but boondoggled into a spending package to fund social agenda programs that should be (and some are) funded in other appropriation legislation.

The Dems are so happy with all of their PORK!

    Hopefully, I am wrong, but it seems like the American public has just received the worst “effin” it has ever seen.!!

    God Save the United States!!

“Tito the Builder” warns: Don’t Mess with “Joe the Plumber”

     “Tito the Builder” is angry that the media and other groups have investigated the background of “Joe the Plumber” whose major crime was that he asked Sen. Barack Obama a question that was not on the script.

    Reacting to the various news stories about the invasion of Joe the Plumber’s privacy, such as checking his child support status, Tito Munoz believes (rightly so) that the mainstream media has failed to do the same similar investigation on Barack Obama.

     On FOXNews “Hannity and Colmes”, Tito the Builder said that if under an Obama presidency he might get a tax break of $2,000 a year, that is 96 CENTS an hour and “my freedom is not worth that” to elect Barack Obama!

Wall Street Journal: Spreading the Wealth, Obama-Style

The following appeared in the Oct. 29th edition of the Wall Street Journal, and is reprinted here in its entirety; it speaks for itself:

• POLITICAL DIARY
• OCTOBER 29, 2008

Spreading the Wealth, Obama-Style

From Joe the Plumber to Joe the Nontaxpayer

By JAMES FREEMAN

• Article

A recent Journal editorial noted that since more than a third of Americans already have zero federal income tax liability, the Obama “tax cuts” amount to handouts for millions of nontaxpayers.

Barack Obama

The Obama campaign maintains that these handouts from the income tax system are not really handouts, because they are offset when the recipients pay FICA taxes for Social Security and Medicare. But the Heritage Foundation reports that even after accounting for the employees’ share of FICA taxes, 10 million additional filers would be paying zero federal taxes while receiving checks from the IRS. In Heritage’s latest report on Obama’s stealth welfare program, the think tank forecasts that for Obama’s 10 million new net recipients of federal dollars, the average handout will be more than $2,000 each year. Those tempted to dismiss data from right-of-center Heritage might wish to check out the latest from the left-leaning Tax Policy Center, which has also forecast a massive increase in spending on Obama’s “refundable tax credits.”

Now we know where a President Obama would spend some of the money he takes from Joe the Plumber. Calling these payments “tax cuts” is misleading in the extreme. “Spreading the wealth around” is more accurate, and it raises the question of just how many families would see relief under an Obama administration.

Consider that the White House recently announced a $455 billion deficit for this year, and next year’s could be more than twice that. If a President Obama is negotiating with a Democratic Congress, which “tax cuts” are most likely to survive—the ones promised to actual taxpayers, or those earmarked for nontaxpayers?

Sen. Obama: We don’t care what you do with YOUR Toys!

     Latching onto Sen. McCain’s “Joe the Plumber” and the attention it has brought, Sen. Obama has added his own variation on the campaign trail. In North Carolina, Sen. Obama mentioned Suzie the Student, Nancy the Nurse, and Carl the Construction Worker,  among others.

     In his attempt to paint John McCain as “out of touch” with the economy, despite the narrowing polls showing otherwise, Barack Obama is telling crowds that “I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten (before they had sex education in kindergarten). I shared my, uh, peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”    

      McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, who has shown that he is far better at handling critical questioning that Obama’s Bill Burton, responded to Obama’s toy comment with “No one cares what Barack Obama does with his toys, but Americans do care that he wants to raise taxes, add a trillion dollars in new spending and redistribute your hard-earned paycheck as he sees fit.”

     Tucker Bounds is absolutely correct Sen. Obama. We don’t care how you share your toys or your food (as long as its not to our enemies). We don’t care that your running mate makes millions more than Gov. Palin, yet the Palin’s are far more charitable with their middle class earnings than you and Michelle or Joe and Jill are with your “rich” earnings.

     We DO CARE about how you want to say how and who we will share our toys, food, earnings with, instead of allowing US to decide what we will do with our earnings. In 1992, a little known Governor promised a tax cut for the middle class or promised that we would have no tax increase. Yet just 26 days into his administration, in February 1993, President Clinton signed a tax increase. You promised to participate in the public election financing, then broke your word, so we know that we cannot trust what you are now saying about our middle class tax relief.

     Sen. Obama, if you are elected, I am selfishly saying that I am not sharing my toys!!

Obama, In His Own Words, Explains his Theory for Wealth Redistribution

     Citing that through legislation and Court decisions, minorities have acquired the right to vote, to have a job and be paid for it, to eat in the same places as the white race, and Sen. Barack Obama has said that where the legislation and teh Court stopped short of was in “redistributing the Wealth“!!!

     In his own words, Sen. Obama clearly spells out why there is a need for the redistribution of wealth, as a tenet of the final barrier that the civil rights movement needs to break. His words– Just Words– are the basic tenets of the New Party he joined in the 1990′s and the Democratic Socialists of America who he associated with in his early political career.

     Put those word in context with his words to Joe the Plumber:

    

    I would like an explanation from the mainstream media as to why Gov. Palin’s clothing expenditures deserve front page coverage in the New York Times, but questioning of Obama on interviews like this one does not even occur!

Update: William Ayres, a professor of education, and a known terrorist, calls into a radio talk show to ask the guest a question or two:

Biden confirms Obama Media access: No questioning Allowed!!

     Sen. Joe Biden was able to show the American public exactly how the media has allowed the Obama campaign to set the standard for access to them, and how our freedom of press and speech may be altered in the future.

    During an interview on Florida’s WFTV, Barbara West asked Sen. Biden some difficult questions, and actually had to confrontational with the Senator as he became angered at the context of her comments, including quotes from Karl Marx.

    In the aftermath of the Joe the Plumber comments, it was acceptable for the media to dig into his past and rake him over the coals; it has been reported that government computers in Ohio were used to reveal some of the Joe the Plumber information. It was acceptable to dispatch hundreds of media and investigators to Alaska to dig out the dirt on Gov. Sarah Palin. But how many journalists and camera crews were parked in Hyde Park in front of the home of William Ayers?

     WFTV later received a cancellation of Jill Biden’s interview, as well as a notice from the Obama campaign that the likelihood of any further contact with the campaign is unlikely. Can we see what we may face in an Obama administration?

    While the leftwing blogosphere whines and cries about the “ineptness” of the anchorwoman, her credentials are impressive, having worked for ABC for 16 years, and she was a principal assistant to the late Peter Jennings. She obviously was not trained at the same school of journalistic ethics that Andrea Mitchell attended!!

UPDATE:  As would be expected, the Obama leftist warriors have begun an all out assault on Orlando’s WFTV and their anchor, Barbara West. Please show them support and appreciation for being willing to challenge the Obama team:

             barbara.west@wftv.com

             news@wftv.com

Tax Warrant for Maya Soetoro for $6837.99

 

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama’s Sister  

  On the website, Web of Deception, a State of New York Tax Warrant is posted, for 1996 taxes due, in the name of Maya Soetoro, the sister of Sen. Barack Obama. The warrant, issued in February 2000, is in the amount of $6837.99, which includes the tax due, plus interest and penalties.

 http://www.webofdeception.com/obamasistertaxwarrant.html

     Does this tax warrant have any bearing on the Obama campaign? Should it have any significance? Why should it even be reported?

     Maya Soetoro’s tax issues have no more place in the news or campaign materials than do the tax issues for Joe the Plumber. Yet, the media feels that Joe the Plumber’s taxes were important to discuss, because, after all, he questioned Barack Obama about his tax plans, and thus he was open to media scrutiny.

    The media just doesn’t get the point on the Joe the Plumber issue: how will the tax plans affect his plans?