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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on October 15, 2009, 06:38:05 AM

Title: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'
Post by: bijou on October 15, 2009, 06:38:05 AM

A former contractor for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police has been charged with rummaging through state computers to retrieve confidential information about "Joe the Plumber."

Brett A. Gerke, 52,  of 2329 Woodcreek Place on the Far North Side, is charged with attempted unauthorized use of property....

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/10/14/plumber.html?sid=101

Title: Re: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'
Post by: NHSparky on October 15, 2009, 07:31:00 AM

Democrat projection?  Say it ain't so!

Title: Re: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'
Post by: Thor on October 15, 2009, 08:58:16 AM

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Title: Re: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'
Post by: ironhorsedriver on October 15, 2009, 09:16:31 AM

Wanna bet, nothing like Watergate will prevail from this. It will be swept under the rug.

Title: Re: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'
Post by: Thor on October 15, 2009, 09:22:19 AM

I was being facetious. There will be little or nothing that happens to this criminal.

Title: Re: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'
Post by: Deuce on October 15, 2009, 10:52:53 PM

....who the hell cares about Joe the Plumber enough to go looking up info on him?

The elections long over.

Title: Re: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'
Post by: Chris_ on October 16, 2009, 06:26:57 PM

Quote from: Deuce on October 15, 2009, 10:52:53 PM

....who the hell cares about Joe the Plumber enough to go looking up info on him?

The elections long over.

The purpose isn't so much to go after Joe the Plumber.  The purpose is to put those of the rest of us who might "inadvertently" ask unbecoming questions of The Øne, on notice: "This could happen to you, too."

Title: Re: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumber'
Post by: dandi on October 19, 2009, 08:23:04 AM

Quote from: Deuce on October 15, 2009, 10:52:53 PM

....who the hell cares about Joe the Plumber enough to go looking up info on him?

The elections long over.

Care to have your own good name smeared because you dared speak out?  It could happen to you, too.

Title: Re: Former police association contractor charged with snooping on 'Joe the Plumb
Post by: Gratiot on October 19, 2009, 05:18:22 PM

I still don't understand why he is being referred to as 'Joe the Plumber', when he has never been one.

Regardless, the contractor should be criminally charged.  Let's hope justice is carried out  :cheersmate: