Update: Joe the Plumber will hold a press conference next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Tony Packo’s in Toledo where he’s expected to officially announce over hot dogs and flat diet soda pop what everyone already knows — that he’s running for Congress. Plumber, who just got married last weekend to now Mrs. Plumber, will run as a Republican but isn’t thrilled with either party, he says. The feeling is likely mutual. (Cleveland.com)
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When the TV cameras showed up on the front lawn of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher back in the day, Joe the Plumber was birthed onto an unsuspecting nation. But the full narrative of Joe was just beginning. From local nobody to national celebrity to local political toiler, the next step was and is always just toward the horizon. Consider it the Manifest Destiny of Joe. (If you want the spoiler: this all ends with him employed as the janitor on Rock of Love 173 in 2029.)
This article appears in Oct 19-25, 2011.
I’m sure Rob Frost, with the Cuyahoga Republican Party behind him, is losing no sleep.
Ohio – fuck yeah!
Interestingly, Frost withdrew from the race today, leaving Joe the Plumber the only candidate so far, and the real election being the primary between Kaptur and Kucinich.