So, Exactly How is Joe The Plumber Related to Keating?

[Maine-ah]

I'm damn confused at this point. I just read one report that his grandfather is Keating, another one that just says "relative", and another one that said "distant relative"

do we have anything nailed down in respect to the true relationship yet?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. I believe they're both third cousins to Johnny Gan, millionaire entertainer.

Other than that, it's all rumor & in new window.

[Maine-ah]

2. helpful.

thank you.

:P

[A-Schwarzenegger]

5. Nobody likes the real answer:

There is absolutely no relationship whatsoever, as in "none".

[Tarc]

8. Can you go be a McCain apologist somewhere else please?

Thanks.

[MrScorpio]

9. I heard KO say tonight that the relationship is non existent

Even if the similar names are problematic

[A-Schwarzenegger]

11. Please don't inject reality into this discussion.

Some people are allergic to it. :)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. With all due respect,

insert your demented bean into your caboose,
and all your sixteenth cousins can join in.

[Tarc]

12. /yawn

Try harder, pls.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

15. How is your head just like the charge that Joe is related to Keating?

No peeking. Don't wait for the translation.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. He probably isn't.

There seem to be several people with similar names involved & nothing really checks out. If if did, it would be a useless bit of random information anyway. Time spent following this one down is likely to be totally wasted. I wish people would lose it.

[Maine-ah]

4. huh.

I'm finding it rather interesting, myself. If it is true, and hits the MSM, it could possibly destroy the McCain campaign.

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Keating's son-in-law is a Robert Wurzelbacher; so any relationship is through that marriage

it's probably a distant relationship; I have no idea how many Wurzelbachers there are in Ohio; it doesn't seem a very COMMON name, but in an area with so many people of German descent, it's probably not uncommon, either; they're probably something like second or third cousins. I'm not sure if your second cousin's father-in-law counts as 'related' in any but the six-degrees-of-separation sense.

[dgibby]

13. It's a very common name in Ohio.

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. Not so much, apparently; there are only 48 in the Social Security Death Index

(that's in the while country, over the past 50 years or so); almost all of them from Hamilton County or Butler County Ohio. It seems almost certain that any two people who share such an extremely uncommon surname will be related, even if distantly.

[FVZA_Colonel]

7. I'm not sure he is, but there's a lot of "interesting" stuff in his background.

The tax lien, the income that would never be taxed as he fears under Obama's plan, the fact that he's not a licensed plumber...

[progressivebydesign]

14. How could there be a guy with the same EXACT name (an unusual one to boot)

that happens to have lived on KEATING Drive in Arizona? Can someone explain to me how there could be two people with the name "Samuel Joseph Wartzenbocker (or whatever the fuck his name is)" that have no relation to each other. Now the same last name, albeit unusual, is one thing.. but the same first and last names? And on KEATING Drive? Has to be a relative of some sort... and there is a guy with that last name that was part of the Keating Five.

No. .there has to be a connection there. it's just too friggin' coincidental.

[TheManagement]

16. annnd

Guess what? Charles Keating was part of the development of that area he was living, hence the name. You know what else? He lived at two different addresses on Keating Ave. Sounds like a sweat heart free ride from an uncle to me.

[grasswire]

17. Olbermann says no relationship

He said it's a very common name in Ohio and there is no relationship.