Posted March 27, 200718 yr Driehaus will challenge Chabot BY HOWARD WILKINSON | [email protected] March 27, 2007 CINCINNATI - State Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-Price Hill, a Democrat with a history of winning over Republican voters, said Tuesday he is planning to challenge Rep. Steve Chabot in next year’s 1st Congressional district election. "By next year, Steve Chabot, with all due respect, will have been there 14 years and people are going to start looking at whether or not it is time for something new,'' Driehaus said. ... http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070327/NEWS01/303270029
July 3, 200717 yr From the 5/3/07 Enquirer: Race is on: Driehaus vs. Chabot BY HOWARD WILKINSON | [email protected] State Rep. Steve Driehaus, a Price Hill Democrat, made it official this morning – he will run against Rep. Steve Chabot in the 1st Congressional District next year. Driehaus said he filed papers with the Federal Elections Commission to set up a campaign committee, a step necessary to begin raising money for a campaign to unseat Chabot, who was re-elected to a seventh two-year term in the U.S. House last fall. ... http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070503/NEWS01/305030019/
January 19, 200817 yr Cincinnati firefighters dump Chabot BY MALIA RULON | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER January 18, 2008 CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati Fire Fighters Union announced Friday that it was dropping its longtime endorsement of Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot because the Westwood Republican opposed the group’s top legislative issue. The union instead has endorsed Chabot’s opponent in the 1st Congressional District, Democrat Steve Driehaus of Price Hill. ...
January 19, 200817 yr I think Driehaus has a better chance to win this one than Cranley did, simply because people don't really like Cranley all that much. I hope Chabot loses, primarily because he does nothing to help the metro area and he is constantly against any attempt at building transit in the area. Heck, Chabot even voted against federal funds in that would have gone to the Banks riverfront park. Even Jean Schmidt voted for that. Chabot's supposed political ideals of limited government and federal involvement would carry more water if his allies weren't pursuing contrary objectives. He's an insider (not like Voinovich), and always has been since 1994.
January 19, 200817 yr It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, because the 2010 elections will be huge in Ohio since redistricting will slice our representation and likely shift it dramatically toward the Dems unless the GOP rises like a phoenix over the next couple cycles. Unfortunately, I don't think there is much energy left in the GOP (well actually Ohio politics altogether lacks productive energy). Anyway, if a Dem wins, this seat will likely get much safer in the next few years.
October 17, 200816 yr Chabot Re-Election Bid in Ohio May Be His Toughest Yet By Greg Giroux, CQ Staff Republican Rep. Steve Chabot has become accustomed to close campaigns in Ohio’s 1st District, a politically competitive swath of southwestern Ohio that takes in the west side of Cincinnati and some suburbs. And of the congressman’s six re-election campaigns to date, none may be more difficult than his current one, against Democratic state Rep. Steve Driehaus. The Chabot-Driehaus race appears so close, in fact, that the surest prediction CQ Politics can make about the outcome is that the winner will be named “Steve.” CQ Politics is upgrading Democratic prospects in Ohio’s 1st by shifting the rating of the race to “No Clear Favorite” from “Leans Republican.” ... http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000002976158
November 6, 200816 yr Driehaus: Election 'great night' http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081105/NEWS0106/311050052/1169/NEWS Democratic State Rep. Steve Driehaus ended Republican Steve Chabot's 14-year tenure in the 1st Congressional District. With all but 2 precincts reporting results, Driehaus won by 9,097 votes -- 143,146 to 133,449 -- or 52 percent to 48 percent. ...
