DENVER, CO-Joe the Plumber may have taken center stage in the national political debates between Barack Obama and John McCain for the last two weeks, but he has nothing on Steve Jusseaume (www.benfranklinplumbingdenver.com).

Owner of Ben Franklin Plumbing in South Denver, Steve Jusseaume isn’t taking up bandwidth complaining that he can’t afford to be in business. Neither is he without a license, as investigative journalists uncovered is the case with Joe. Jusseaume has held License #178235 for 30 years, since he first started business in Colorado in 1978.
Joe the Plumber, whose real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, achieved new heights of notoriety when his name was mentioned in the third presidential debate of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. GOP candidate John McCain cited Joe as being representative of the kind of American who would be hurt by the tax plans Democratic candidate Barack Obama espouses in his platform.

In the days following the third and final presidential debate held Oct. 15, 2008, U.S. News reported that Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, the referenced plumber who resides in Holland, Ohio, stated that he doesn’t have a license and doesn’t need one. Joe went on to say that because he works for someone else, he doesn’t need a license.

Turns out he does.

Lucas County, Ohio, outside of Toledo, requires plumbers to have licenses. But neither Joe nor his employer Al Newell, owner of Newell Plumbing and Heating, has a license, according to the Lucas County Building Regulations Department.

Joe the Plumber went viral-his situation popularized enough to make him an entry in Wikipedia. Joe went public too in an interview with U.S. News with the confession that he doesn’t have a good plan together to purchase the plumbing business from his employer anyway. Even though he and Newell have talked it over, Joe admitted he has “a lot to learn.”

Maybe about licensing?

Fully trained and licensed, Steve Jusseaume takes pride in delivering the answers and repairs to any kind of issue imaginable.  From main line breaks and backed up sewer lines, to water heater replacements or tankless water heater installations, he’s fixed every kind of trouble, hundreds of times over in his career.
Because he’s licensed, Master Plumber Jusseaume is legally authorized to work in the City and County of Denver, which has the same requirements of Lucas County, Ohio and then some.

Contact Steve Jusseaume, Colorado’s plumber, at 303-340-3400 or email him through the website at www.benfranklinplumbingdenver.com.