John J. Kulewicz, Attorney General

What this office decides

Ohio's attorney general is the state's chief lawyer: defends state laws in court, enforces consumer-protection and charity laws, runs the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and joins or leads multistate lawsuits. The office also decides whether summaries on citizen-initiative petitions are fair and truthful. Four-year term.

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Dossier

Researched 2026-09-23 · Claude Code research agent with web search

Donald Trump: nothing found. No statement by Trump about Kulewicz found; Kulewicz has criticized opponent Faber's ties to Trump, but that is Kulewicz's own statement, not one from Trump.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio (for) source

Who they are

John J. Kulewicz is a retired litigation attorney who spent over 40 years at the Columbus firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, retiring in December 2024, and currently serves on Upper Arlington City Council (elected 2019, re-elected 2023) (Wikipedia). He does not currently hold statewide office and is the Democratic nominee for Ohio Attorney General in 2026; the seat is open because term-limited Republican Dave Yost left to run for governor, with Gov. DeWine appointing Andy Wilson to fill the remainder of the term (search snippet, Signal Ohio).

Positions

Crime & policing: Says he would prosecute wrongdoing regardless of power: "when they've committed a crime, Keith Faber will protect the powerful. I will prosecute them" (search snippet, Statehouse News Bureau).
Business & regulation: Campaign focuses on consumer protection - "taking on price-fixing monopolies, scam artists and robocallers, Medicaid provider and nursing home fraudsters" - rather than what he calls "culture war" litigation (Kulewicz campaign site; Statehouse News Bureau).
Personal freedom: Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, endorsing Kulewicz, says he would uphold "the Reproductive Freedom Amendment in the courts"; his own campaign site does not separately address abortion (search snippet, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio - page could not be read).
Voting rules: No public position found.
Party politics in courts and agencies: No public position found.
Government accountability: Pledges to take "on corrupt politicians and restoring transparency and accountability to our government" (Kulewicz campaign site).

Record

Kulewicz has no prior statewide office; professionally he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. DaVita Inc. (2022) and was named to Best Lawyers in America (2018-2019) in appellate law and civil-rights litigation (Wikipedia). No specific council votes were identified in sources reviewed.

Money

A mid-June 2026 filing showed $224,709 raised with $393,889 cash on hand; in the following period he outraised Faber for a second straight period with about $570,000 raised but held only about $298,000 cash on hand, far behind Faber's $2.46 million (search snippet, Ohio Capital Journal - page could not be read). Tracked via Ohio Secretary of State campaign finance filings.

Recent news

2026-05-05 (approx.): Won the Democratic primary with 63.16% of the vote over former state Rep. Elliot Forhan (Wikipedia; WKYC).
2025-09 (approx.): Entered the Democratic primary race (Statehouse News Bureau).
2026 (mid-year filing period): Outraised Faber for a second consecutive period, though still far behind in cash on hand (search snippet, Ohio Capital Journal).

What we couldn't find

Planned Parenthood's endorsement page and an Ohio Capital Journal finance article returned "403 Forbidden" on fetch; relied on search snippets.
No explicit position on guns, voting rules, or the partisan structure of the attorney general's office.
No record of any Trump statement about Kulewicz.

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