Joe the Plumber Gets Protested in Pittsburgh

Amanda Terkel
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ThinkProgress
March 31, 2009Video

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber,� was recently tapped by the anti-labor group Americans for Prosperity to shill against the Employee Free Choice Act. Americans for Prosperity spokesperson Mary Ellen Burke said that Wurzelbacher was chosen because “he represents the American worker� and is a “role model.� At a rally yesterday near Pittsburgh, PA, Wurzelbacher received a chilly welcome from many residents � especially union members:

Two Green Tree police officers broke up several arguments to prevent fights in the midst of a crowd of about 150 packed inside a Radisson ballroom. The crowd was divided about evenly between union members and opponents of the so-called “card check� bill. No one was arrested.

Wurzelbacher, in a flannel shirt, T-shirt and jeans, drew some of the loudest rebukes from union members, who booed and jeered him for not having a plumber’s license in his native Ohio.

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