The Space Bar
It must be Rep. Zack Space's (D-OH 18) lucky day. The NRCC is hitting 43 Dems for voting for the stimulus and the $3.5T budget. The cmte will send robocalls into most of the CDs, but nine targets -- Reps. Alan Grayson (FL-08), Debbie Halvorson (IL-11), Charlie Melancon (LA-03), Dina Titus (NV-03), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Michael Arcuri (NY-24), Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15), Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03) and Chet Edwards (TX-17) -- will have radio ads aired against them.
And of the 43, the NRCC singled out Space, as it's begun airing a TV ad against him on the subject.
"Nancy Pelosi pushed a budget with a trillion dollar deficit. And Space voted to let Nancy Pelosi get her way," the ad states. "Tell Zack Space it's time to put the brakes on spending."
The DCCC has conducted similar campaigns, airing radio ads against six vulnerable GOPers for voting against middle class tax cuts in the stimulus bill.
But this is the second time the NRCC has singled out a vulnerable Dem in a TV ad early this cycle. In late-Feb., it aired an ad that hit freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA 05) for "stretching the truth" about the stimulus plan.
For the NRCC, hitting Perriello is a no-brainer; he defeated then-Rep. Virgil Goode (D) by just 700+ votes, and sits in a CD that went for John McCain. Space should be in a similar predicament (McCain won his CD by 8%), but he showed signs of vulnerability in '08, when he blasted a nominal opponent. The NRCC hopes that changes this year.
(TIM SAHD)
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