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McCain kicks off 'Joe the Plumber' tour
John McCain stopped at a series of small businesses along central Florida’s I-4 corridor on Wednesday, hoping to win-over economically-anxious voters with a bus tour through one of the Sunshine State’s most buffeted and hotly contested regions.
“We shouldn’t be taxing our small businesses more, as Senator Obama wants to do. We need to be helping them expand their businesses and create jobs,” said McCain, continuing several days of attacks on the Democratic candidate’s economic plans.
Today’s outing was dubbed the “Joe the Plumber Tour,” after the Ohio voter who critically questioned Barack Obama’s tax plans and became a rhetorical fixture in the last presidential debate. Joe’s complaints have become a recurring theme for McCain in the final weeks of the 2008 race. Today, he was on the prowl for all sorts of small business owners who he could elevate to Everyman status, signaling out “David The Dentist” at a stop at Coatom Periodontal in Altamonte Springs.
“His name is Richard, but he’s Joe The Plumber,” McCain said of Richard Rivers, the owner of a floral shop who he met at the The Starlite Diner in Daytona Beach.
Supporters warmed to the theme.
“I think there are a lot of Joe the Plumbers out there,” said Bob Long, a McCain supporter who owns Marine Concepts in Sarasota, Florida. “They started calling me Bob the Boat Builder.”
- Maybe he should try "John the President" tour? eh? no?TheBlueOne