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Ohio Attorney General Comparison
Ohio’s Attorney General (AG) is the state's highest legal officer and oversees enforcement of state laws. They can investigate, bring charges, and offer settlements with individuals and corporations if they violate state law. The AG can enforce compliance among nonprofits to ensure they are not abusing their tax-exempt status. This position can sue the federal government when they feel there has been a violation of federal law or the U.S. Constitution.
John Kulewicz
Kulewicz spent 44 years as a lawyer at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, one of Ohio's largest law firms, arguing cases up to the U.S. Supreme Court. He's campaigning as a lawyer rather than a career politician, promising to take on "price-fixing monopolies" that he says are driving up everyday costs for Ohioans. He's pledged to keep pushing the state's case against the FirstEnergy executives behind the $61 million HB 6 bribery scheme, saying Ohioans who paid higher power bills deserve to see the execs be held accountable for it.
Keith Faber
Faber has worked in Ohio's Republican-run government for almost 20 years. Ohio just had its biggest corruption scandal ever — a power company bribed lawmakers with $61 million to pass a law, and that's a big reason your electric bill went up. The people accused of the bribery still haven't gone to trial. If Faber becomes Attorney General, he'll decide if that trial moves forward. He says he wants to "wait and see" until after the election. Faber has also taken campaign money from energy companies. He also says he wants to back the police and prosecutors, and points to his time catching people "lying, stealing and cheating" with government money as proof he can handle a bigger job.
AFFORDABILITY
John Kulewicz
Kulewicz's core affordability message is going after "price-fixing monopolies" that he says are pushing prices up "beyond what the market should reasonably be charging in almost every sector." He's specifically called out the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for accountability, referencing the corruption scandal tied to the FirstEnergy bribery case, and says he'd use antitrust law to challenge companies illegally coordinating to raise prices. His platform also names predatory lending as a target.
Keith Faber
Faber has built his campaign around cracking down on fraud. But Ohio just had the biggest fraud case in its history, the $61 million FirstEnergy bribery scandal, which has cost Ohioans over a billion dollars in higher bills, and it's not the fraud Faber has actually gone after. He's testified in Congress about Medicaid overbilling instead, flagging $9 billion in questionable spending since 2019. On FirstEnergy, the one case he'd actually control as Attorney General, he won't commit to keeping it alive. He wants to "wait and see," and he's taken money from energy companies.
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Analysis: House Bill 6 bribery case is driving this year's Ohio AG race — WVXU
Ohio auditor addresses state's Medicaid fraud — NBC4 WCMH-TV
His account, on Medicaid home healthcare oversight testimony to state legislative committees — X
EDUCATION
John Kulewicz
Kulewicz has been endorsed by the Ohio Federation of Teachers and the Ohio Education Association as part of his broader labor support, though his campaign has centered on consumer protection and antitrust rather than a specific school funding or voucher platform.
Keith Faber
Faber controls how closely Ohio checks your tax dollars in schools, and that matters because vouchers now pull over $2 billion a year away from public schools. As Auditor, though, Faber didn't look into that. Instead, he investigated school districts for suing over the voucher program. Teachers pushed back, asking him to look into private schools using public money to fight unions instead. He didn't take that up either.