Talk about right place at the right time changing someone’s life. That can be said for a little street in Ohio that then candidate Obama decided to walk his campaign down. Flash forward to 2011 and we find Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher a.k.a. Joe the Plumber is making a run for his own political aspirations. The start of the campaign is spot on message as the idea America needs a few mechanics, bricklayers and, yes, plumbers in Congress. He officially launched his campaign for Congress running as a Republican in Ohio’s 9th U.S. House district. The seat is held by Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving Democratic woman in the House. Hopefully she will get a little beat up as she has a primary challenge from Rep. Dennis Kucinich after Ohio’s redrawn congressional map combined their two districts into one that appears heavily tilted toward Democrats. This does make Wurzelbacher a pretty big underdog whom ever he faces, but we have seen this playbook before and predict the loser of the Kucinich, Kaptur race will suddenly become and Independent or maybe even a write-in, you read it here first. Joe the Plumber came out swinging saying Americans deserve all kinds of people representing them, not just an elite, ruling class.
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