Video: Joe the Plumber Says U.S. Should "Build The Fence and Start Shooting"
By Michael Allen, Tue, August 14, 2012
Opposing Views
Samuel 'Joe the Plumber' Wurzelbacher, who is running for Congress in Ohio, said recently that the U.S. should “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting" (video below).
Wurzelbacher made the statement during a rally for Arizona Republican state Rep. Lori Klein on Friday, according to Prescott eNews.
Wurzelbacher said: “For years I’ve said, you know, put a damn fence on the border, going to Mexico, and start shooting."
Appearing with Klein on Saturday, Wurzelbacher said: “I’m running for Congress. How many congressmen or people running for Congress have you heard, put a fence up and start shooting? None? Well you heard it here first. Put troops on the border and start shooting, I bet that solves our immigration problem real quick.”
Klein refused to condemn the call for border shooting, but her opponent Republican state House Speaker Andy Tobin told KTVK-TV: “I would ask for him to retract the statement as made in jest, and if not made in jest, I’m appalled at him. We don’t do that in Arizona."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...;v=ZSOAY61sBEI
'Joe The Plumber’: Put Up a Fence and ‘Start Shooting’
‘Joe The Plumber’ Samuel Wurzelbacher Says Put Up a Fence and ‘Start Shooting’ Immigrants | Video | TheBlaze.com
(TheBlaze/AP) — An Ohio plumber thrust into national politics during the 2008 presidential campaign says the United States needs to build a fence at Mexico border and “start shooting” at suspected illegal immigrants.
Samuel Wurzelbacher made the comment during a Friday night fundraising appearance in Arizona for state Sen. Lori Klein.
“You know for years I’ve said put a damn fence on the border going into Mexico and start shooting. I’m running for Congress and that should be a bad thing to say,” he said. “I want our borders protected, I am very adamant about that.”
Wurzelbacher became known as “Joe the Plumber” four years ago after he confronted then-candidate Barack Obama about taxes during a campaign stop. In March, he won the Republican nomination for a congressional seat in northern Ohio.
He told an audience in Prescott he wasn’t willing to hide his views on border security just because he’s running for Congress.
Wurzelbacher didn’t immediately return a call for comment Monday, but Klein insisted that Wurzelbacher was kidding when he make the remark about shooting.
After watching the video, if he was joking, we must have missed the punchline — no laughs followed.