About 10 years ago, when my son was playing soccer in high school, I was chatting with the father of one of his teammates. He was a little glum about his son’s decision to attend college. Why? “He should be a plumber like me,” the father said. In my middle-class suburban neighborhood, a statement like…
Samuel J. “Joe” Wurzelbacher, a self-described working man who entered the annals of politics during the 2008 presidential campaign when he challenged Democratic nominee Barack Obama on his tax plan and emerged from the exchange an avatar of the middle class, cheered and sometimes jeered as “Joe the Plumber,” died Aug. 27 at his home…
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who briefly became “Joe the Plumber,” the metaphorical American middle-class Everyman, by injecting himself into the 2008 presidential campaign in an impromptu nationally-televised face-off with Barack Obama over taxing small businesses, died on Sunday at his home in Campbellsport, Wis., about 60 miles north of Milwaukee. He was 49. The cause was…
Politics / August 29, 2023 Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who died on Sunday, seemed like a footnote to the 2008 presidential campaign. But he was an augur of things to come. Ad Policy Samuel Wurzelbacher visits Sderot, Israel, in 2009. (Moshe Milner / GPO / Getty) As the Trump movement finds itself facing a fresh round…
Joe Wurzelbacher, the Ohio man who became well-known as “Joe the Plumber” after questioning Barack Obama about his tax plan during the 2008 election campaign, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 49. Wurzelbacher died on Sunday morning after a months-long battle with pancreatic cancer, according to close friends. He is survived by…
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All images by Stephanie Lee for RICE Media Zhong He is soaked in sewage water from an unclogged kitchen sink. As lanky as he is, the 26-year-old can’t escape the flow of wastewater drenching all over him. He’s fully sandwiched between the floor and the bottom of a kitchen cabinet. To unclog the kitchen sink,…
All images by Stephanie Lee for RICE Media Zhong He is soaked in sewage water from an unclogged kitchen sink. As lanky as he is, the 26-year-old can’t escape the flow of wastewater drenching all over him. He’s fully sandwiched between the floor and the bottom of a kitchen cabinet. To unclog the kitchen sink,…
