Joe the Plumber has taken a job at a unionized auto plant — and he sounds proud of it.
Joe Wurzelbacher, who rose from obscurity during the 2008 presidential race when he was championed by Sen. John McCain and then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, posted on his website that he just started a job at Chrysler’s Jeep plant in Toledo.
“Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment — in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and lifelong supporters of the Democrat Party?” he wrote. “You betcha.”
Actually Wurzlebacher, who announced a run for Congress in 2011, sounds content to work in a job where all workers are represented by the UAW.
“I’m a working man and I’m working,” he said, adding that he and other workers have no choice but to be represented by the UAW at the plant and he’s fine with that. “The employees voted to have it that way and in America that’s the way it is.”
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