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A campaign aide later said Wurzelbacher had "decided not to come" and may join McCain later in the day.
But reached at his home by CNN's Mary Snow, Wurzelbacher said it was "news to him" that he was supposed to be at the McCain rally. Wurzelbacher said nobody from the McCain campaign confirmed he was attending the event and called the incident a "miscommunication."
Wurzelbacher also said he is headed to Philadelphia for a charity event unrelated to the campaign and has no plans to meet up with McCain today.
In Ohio shown live so YouTube should have at some point. John was talking about Joe and said he was there and told Joe to come on up. Joe? Joe? Is he here? Where is Joe? Tee Hee. The look on Cindy's face was priceless as McCain stumbled. Hopefully it will be up on Youtube soon. Joe The Plumber Ditches McCain (VIDEO)
I also heard that out of the 5000 attending, 3000 were bused in from local high schools, that were just glad to get out of school for the day.
“I was at an event earlier and I introduced you and even though you weren’t even there they cheered for you loudly, so thank you,” McCain said about Joe Wurzelbacher, as he introduced him at this stop as “the voice of small business” and “what the free enterprise system is all about.”
I also heard that out of the 5000 attending, 3000 were bused in from local high schools, that were just glad to get out of school for the day.
McCain Camp Buses In School Kids To Fill Crowd
A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.
This happened -- as if a reminder were needed -- less than a week out from the election, when the heat of the campaign should be drawing record crowd
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