Zack Space

U.S. Rep. Zack Space (D-Dover) has more than 11 times as much cash on hand than Fred Dailey (R-Mt. Vernon) and the 18th Congressional District race isn't listed as competitive by many national observers.

But that didn't prevent Space from launching an attack ad against Dailey -- who isn't even on television himself. 

The 30-second ad was seen by PolitickerOH.com during the 8:00 hour on a Columbus station. It attacks Dailey for supporting NAFTA and American jobs.

U.S. Rep. Zack Space: WikipediaU.S. Rep. Zack Space (D-Dover) has $930,000 in cash on hand for the final three weeks of the election, his campaign announced today.

Space raised $323,000 during the 3rd fundraising quarter that ended today, bring his total fundraising to nearly $2 million in 2008. 

Opponent Fred Dailey's (R-Mt. Vernon) totals haven't been released to the Federal Elections Commission yet. 

U.S. Reps. Charlie Wilson (D-St. Clairsville), Zack Space (D-Dover) and Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) spoke about their votes on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Friday afternoon.

Wilson and Space each voted for the revised version of the bill that was approved by the Senate, while Latta voted against it, each of their votes remained unchanged from the first vote by the Senate revisions.

Space said that he supported the bill to protect against a financial meltdown.

"Today, I voted to protect the taxpayers of Ohio from economic collapse," Space said. "Without this rescue package, we could have seen an economic disaster on the scale of the Great Depression."

A new ad by conservative Judicial Confirmation Network is targeting southeast Ohio and other select designated media areas in the state today.

Politico reports that the ad will play Zanesville and the Wheeling-Steubenville, West Virginia media markets. These markets blanket much of southeast Ohio, and the 18th Congressional District.

The ad is also playing in the Lima, Toledo and Youngstown markets.

U.S. Rep. Zack Space (D-Dover) was one of seven Ohio representatives to vote in favor of the bailout bill yesterday. Space said in a statement that he was disappointed the bill didn’t pass.

“We are at a crossroads in America, and I am truly dispirited that, today, Congress could not political differences aside and rise to the occasion of averting what may well be an economic disaster,” Space said, adding that the bill’s failure may result in bank failures, bankruptcies and job loss.

However, the bill was not perfect.

U.S. Rep. Zack Space's (D-Dover) Congressional office sent a press release yesterday about illegal immigration, hours after Space voted in favor of the financial bailout bill.

Space was one of 7 U.S. representatives from Ohio to vote in favor of the bill, which failed 228 to 205.

Space did not send a press release about the bailout, though some of his colleagues have spoken out.

However, Space told the Cincinnati Enquirer that he voted for the "imperfect" bill but was still "outraged... about this situation."

UPDATE: Space spokesman Stuart Chapman told PolitickerOH.com that the immigration e-mail was a regularly scheduled newsletter. The office sent a statement to news outlets that requested it but did not issue a press release. 

The campaign of U.S. Rep. Zack Space (D-Dover) said opponent Fred Dailey (R-Mt. Vernon) can’t perform the basic function of a representative: understanding legislation.

This was Space’s respond to Dailey’s press release sent Wednesday that accused Space of voting for a “scam” energy bill, which does “nothing to promote the development of advanced clean coal and coal-to-liquid technologies.”

However, the bill does provide $1.6 billion for “advanced coal-based generation” and expands the coal gasification credit. It also includes money for carbon sequestration, which is one part of “clean coal” technology (putting carbon dioxide underground instead of in the air).

The campaign for 18th Congressional district candidate Fred Dailey (R-Mt. Vernon) fired a double-barreled shot at U.S. Rep. Zack Space (D-Dover)this week: one aimed at knocking Space on voting for a "scam" energy bill and the other for keeping $20,000 in donations from a powerful House Democrat under fire for ethical violations.

Both issues are big in the district because it is home to coal mines and the former district of U.S. Rep. Bob Ney (R) who went to jail for ethics violations -- an issue Space campaigned on to win two years ago.

On Wednesday Congress passed an energy bill that opens some of the ocean to offshore oil drilling. Dailey criticized Space for voting for a billt hat has no incentives for "clean-coal" or coal-to-liquid fuel technology.

U.S. Rep. Zack Space (D-Dover) has received the endorsement of the American Farm Bureau while running against Ohio's longest-serving Director of Agriculture.

The bureau endorsed Space, citing Space's vote in favor of this year's farm bill and his support for expanding broadband service for rural Ohio, renewable energy initiatives and transportation infrastructure legislation. 

Space's opponent is Fred Dailey (R-Mt. Vernon), who was the director of the state's Department of Agriculture for 16 years.

In a preview of fall campaign themes, two Republican candidates for the U.S. House are trying to link paint their Democratic opponents as out-of-touch by tying them to their national party.

First, former director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture Fred Dailey (R-Mt. Vernon) attacked U.S. Rep. Zach Space (D-Dover) in a press release for Space's comments that he fully supports Barack Obama for president.

Dailey said this means Space supports Obama's April comments that people "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."