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Joe the Plumber is a fake (he's related to the Keating Five scandal, John McCain's 'asterisk')
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Who is Joe the Plumber and what is his relationship to John McCain?
Joe Wurzelbacher — the Ohio plumber who became an instant celebrity when John McCain mentioned him 24 times during the final debate with Barack Obama — is a fake. He isn't even a licensed plumber, according to the National Enquirer.
The Enquirer reports that "Joe the Pumber" is not a member of the plumbers union, as he claimed to be. (The United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters endorse Obama.)
McCain's Joe the Plumber is actually the son of Robert Wurzelbacher, who is Charles Keating's son-in-law, according to the Enquirer.
You may remember Charles Keating from the previous savings and loan crisis in 1989. He was the head of Lincoln Savings and Loan, which collapsed in 1989 at a cost of over $3 billion to the federal government. More than 23,000 shareholders were defrauded and elderly customers lost their life savings.
When government regulators wanted to step in, John McCain was among five senators who attempted to use their influence to stop the investigation. Why? Keating had contributed handsomely to all five senators' campaign accounts. He also sent McCain on a little vacation to the Bahamas, which was caught on camera.
McCain was reprimanded by the Senate for his part in the scandal. He calls it his "asterisk." Perhaps a better description would be the words McCain used to try to discredit his opponent: "Dishonorable." "Dangerous." "Too risky for America."
Here's a CNN/Huffington Post video report about the Keating Five scandal which was called one of the worst Senate ethics scandals in U.S. history:
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