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  <body>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15072.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;padding-left: 60px;&quot;&gt;Move over, Sanjaya, and tell William Hung the news: Joe the Plumber is
being pursued for a major record deal and could come out with a country
album as early as Inauguration Day. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;ldquo;Joe&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&amp;mdash; aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, a Holland, Ohio, pipe-and-toilet man&amp;nbsp;&amp;mdash;
just signed with a Nashville public relations and management firm to
handle interview requests and media appearances, as well as create new
career opportunities, including a shift out of the plumbing trade into
stage and studio performances. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; On Tuesday, Wurzelbacher joined country music artist and producer Aaron
Tippin to form a new partnership that includes booking-management firm
Bobby Roberts and publicity-management concern The Press Office to
field the multiple media offers he&amp;rsquo;s received over the past few weeks. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Among the requests:&amp;nbsp;a possible record deal with a major label, personal
appearances and corporate sponsorships. A longtime country music fan,
Wurzelbacher can sing and &amp;ldquo;knocks around on guitar&amp;rdquo; but is not an
accomplished musician or songwriter, according to The Press Office&amp;rsquo;s
Jim Della Croce.&lt;/p&gt;</body>
  <byline>Jeffrey Ressner | Politico</byline>
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  <created-at type="datetime">2008-10-29T16:45:52-04:00</created-at>
  <deck>&lt;p&gt;Seriously. Dude has an agent and is looking for a record contract.&lt;/p&gt;</deck>
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