Dailey: Space votes for 'scam' energy bill, has double-talk on ethics

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.

"In voting against Ohio coal, Space voted against our mines and our jobs.  Thanks to Zack Space, we'll continue to pay more and more money for gas while getting less and less income from fewer jobs.  This is just one more example of Zack Space saying one thing in eastern Ohio and doing another in Washington," Dailey said in a statement.

Dailey also knocked Space's for keeping campaign donations from U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) who has come under fire for using Congressional offices to solict donations and failing to pay taxes on $75,000 of income.

Dailey used Space's May 25, 2006 press release against him. Space said then: "I don't care if you are a Republican or a Democrat; if you don't practice the highest of ethical standards, you must step aside."

Dailey said Space should stick to his word regarding Rangel.

"Zack Space should put his money where is mouth is on ethics and return Charlie Rangel's tainted cash," he said.