He apparently misunderstood the law and independently needs a license to plumb, rather than just working under his employer. So they’re shutting him down.

Wurzelbacher registered as an apprentice with the Ohio State Apprenticeship Council in November 2003, according to Dennis Evans, spokesman with the Department of Job and Family Services. Records show his training, which was sponsored by A & W Newell Co. of Toledo, should have been wrapped last year.

“We don’t have a record of completion,” Evans said. “All we know is that he registered in the program and has gone through to the point where we should have record of completion, but we don’t.”

And that’s not the only record that’s missing from Wurzelbacher’s file. He doesn’t have a plumbing license required by the city of Toledo to practice, according to a staffer with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection. Wurzelbacher, who now works for Newell Plumbing & Heating Co., said the owner, Al Newell, has a plumbing license and that “because he works for someone else, he doesn’t need a license.”

But even that’s not true, according to the Toledo Division of Building Inspection. Wurzelbacher can’t legally do plumbing work without a license, regardless of his boss’s certification.

A staff person with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection told On Call this afternoon that her division will contact Wurzelbacher to notify him that he can’t work without a license.

“We’re trying to track him down,” she said.

This is what happens when you try to confront The One, the media’s darling, Joe. They’ll dig up dirt on you and put you out of business. Is the law the law? Absolutely. As Allah says, would the media be covering this the same way if an illegal alien had asked a question of John McCain that damaged McCain? Not a shot in freaking hell.

I feel so much better that Joe will no longer be unclogging crap without a state-issued license. The borderline-socialist is still going to get into the White House as of now? The media decided to put Joe out of work instead of cover Obama’s controversial statement? Ah, who cares?

The media’s now officially vetted Joe the Plumber more than Barack Obama the presidential candidate.