Oct. 17, 2010, Zanesville Times Recorder
BY JESSICA ALAIMO
CentralOhio.com
The Republicans want the 18th Congressional District seat they lost in 2006 back, and they are spending big money to recoup it.
However, Democratic incumbent Zack Space of Dover is putting up a fight, thanks to a multimillion-dollar war chest.
According to The Washington Post, Space is one of the Democrats who votes with his party the least often — which is still 93 percent of the time when every roll call vote is considered.
He received the National Rifle Association endorsement, one of four Ohio Democratic congressional candidates to do so. He voted against the final version of the controversial health-care bill, breaking with his party. He voted against President Barack Obama’s latest budget. Lately he has been vocal in his opposition to free-trade deals, a position that resonates with many displaced factory workers in his district.
As Space tries to distance himself from his party, opponent and state Sen. Bob Gibbs, R-Lakeville, wants to fit into the Republican Party’s rebranding.
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