'Joe the Plumber' now UAW

Published: Monday, 2/17/2014 - Updated: 1 minute ago FACEBOOK POSTING

BY TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER

Joe the Plumber, a darling of the right wing ever since he got Barack Obama to say that his goal was to spread the wealth around, is now a dues-paying member of one of President Obamas biggest union supporters, the United Auto Workers.

Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher, 40, of Springfield Township announced in a Facebook posting on Monday and on his Web site, joeforamerica.com, that he had been hired for a union job at the Jeep plant by Chrysler Group LLC.

In a long message, Mr. Wurzelbacher said, I was just recently hired on at Chrysler, and explained that while hes known as a conservative, hes not an enemy of private unions.

In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the Union, in this case UAW. Theres no choice its a union shop the employees voted to have it that way and in America thats the way it is, he wrote.

The declaration on Facebook quickly attracted a slew of likes and comments, some of them highly critical; others cheering him on.

Well Joe you did badmouth the UAW and the American auto industry, wrote Kirk Franklin. My advice to you. Do your job, keep your mouth shut, and be happy the auto industry didnt turn its back on you like you did the auto industry.

Ty Mummey counseled, Zip it just do your job. Let it go in one ear out other, they want you to get mad then they win. Nov. 2014 we will find out the way this country is going. Up or down.

A prolific social media poster, Mr. Wurzelbacher, said, Yes, I have a Web site that puts out conservative news. Yes, I am part owner of a gun company. Yes, Im a Republican who was cast into the limelight for having the temerity to confront Barack Obama on the question of redistributing wealth. But Im a working man and Im working, he wrote.

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'Joe the Plumber' now UAW