One Grumpy Plumber: Wurzelbacher Contradicting Icet On Compensation

We couldn't afford Mr. Plumber's appearance fees for this blog post, so I had to run with this picture of a fake Mr. Plumber

Eli Yokley of The Fuse Joplin has an amusing and perplexing follow-up in the Is-Samuel-Joseph-Wurzelbacher-A-Paid-Celebrity-Endorser? saga.  Yokley , who first wrote about the possibility of a fee structure in April, asked Mr. Plumber this week to explain his compensation from the Allen Icet campaign. 

After telling a group of voters at the Icet for Auditor rally to “question” their political leaders, ‘Joe the Plumber’ didn’t appreciate our question.

“Alright – the question almost infers that I'm doing a bad thing, and I don’t really care for the question. That’s one of those questions that’s really silly, you guys pulling the republicans, the republicans pulling the democrats, it’s just a bunch of bullshit,” ‘Joe’ said after being asked whether or not he was being paid to support Allen Icet.

He says, “No I'm not being paid to be here – but my expenses are being covered to be here.”

I really don't understand why Mr. Plumber is so annoyed with this line of questioning. Allen Icet said his campaign is paying Wurzelbacher to be here. "He is being paid to come into the state and help me campaign and get the name out, get the message out," Icet told the News-Leader on April 16. 

Mr. Plumber needs to get a grip. And maybe think twice about embarrassing the candidate who hired him at such high volumes.

Listen to Yokley's interview here.

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