Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

""State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed 
when they were tapped
for personal information about "Joe the Plumber."

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate 
John McCain
mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama.

The 34-year-old from the Toledo suburb of Holland is held out by McCain as an example of an American who would be 
harmed by Obama's tax proposals.

Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher's driver's license or his 
sport-utility vehicle was pulled
from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate.

Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers,
the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department."
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More at
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/24/joe.html?sid=101

Juha-Matti
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