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The New Joe the Plumber

by David Kurtz
08.10.09 | 6:11 am

The conservative activist who claims he was beaten up by union thugs in St. Louis while protesting against health care reform is accepting donations towards his medical care because he was laid off recently and … has no health insurance.

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