Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, more commonly known as "Joe The Plumber," filed a statement of candidacy to run in Ohio's Ninth District.

The Joe For Congress 2012 campaign committee also filed a statement of organization Thursday, using Wurzelbacher's home address as the committee's address.

The chairman of county Republican Party where Wurzelbacher resides said there was "high-level interest in the national Republican Party" for his candidacy.

Wurzelbacher filed to run as a Republican. Wurzelbacher, employee of a plumbing contractor in 2008, talked to Barack Obama as the candidate met with residents in his Holland, Ohio, neighborhood. Wurzelbacher suggested that Obama’s tax plan would result in higher taxes for him.

Republican nominee Sen. John McCain seized on that exchange and repeatedly referred to the man he dubbed “Joe the Plumber” in his final debate against Obama. The Arizona senator held up Wurzelbacher as a symbol for what could happen to the middle class if the Democrat got into the White House. It led to intense scrutiny of Wurzelbacher, who did not have a plumber’s license and who later said McCain “screwed my life up.”

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