The last time Samuel Wurzelbacher, a plumber from Ohio, attended an Obama campaign rally four years ago, he earned the nickname “Joe the Plumber” and became an icon of Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign when he questioned then-candidate Obama about his tax plan.
But as President Obama’s bus tour rolls through Wurzelbacher’s northern Ohio district today, Wurzelbacher said he’d steer clear of any Obama events and let his fellow Ohioans answer his questions in the 2012 race.
“As of right now, I don’t have any desire to go there,” Wurzelbacher, who is now running for Congress on the Republican ticket, told ABC News. “His ideology and mine are completely different, and I have no real reason to listen to him speak.”
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Joe the Plumber: Obama ‘Should Be Embarrassed to Come Here’ on Bus Tour
ABC News reports: