Search of Joe the Plumber’s records was improper.

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Director Helen Jones-Kelley improperly allowed employees to look at Joe the Plumber’s confidential state records with “no legitimate agency function,” a state investigation concluded.

That’s the bottom line from a 48-page report released by Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles today. The report calls Jones-Kelley’s authorization “improper” and says that she has committed “a wrongful act” by allowing underlings to search databases for information on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher,

If you are I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

The report calls her rationale that the agency often searches databases for those thrust into the public spotlight “unpersuasive.” It says that two former agency directors contradicted Jones-Kelley’s claim that such searches are done on newfound celebrities. It concludes that there was “no legitimate agency function or purpose” but does not find that it was politically motivated.

The report also states that Jones-Kelley, who gave $2,500 to the Obama campaign, sent four e-mails through her state account in which she provided lists of names of potential contributors to the Obama campaign.

Let me get this straight. Someone who contributed the max and violated policy for Obama’s campaign, was not politically motivated when authorizing a witch hunt? Like I said, I’ve got a bridge for sale.

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