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Ohio Congressional District 1 Candidate Comparison

Greg Landsman

Greg Landsman is a former teacher who helped make Cincinnati the first city in the country to provide two years of quality preschool. On City Council, he expanded investments in childcare and affordable housing and helped establish an eviction-prevention fund that kept families in their homes. Now finishing his second term in Congress, Landsman has worked to protect Social Security and lower healthcare, prescription drug, and utility costs—including confronting drug-pricing middlemen and fighting to keep data centers from driving up families’ electric bills.  

Eric Conroy

Eric Conroy won his primary with Donald Trump’s endorsement and has closely aligned himself with Trump’s agenda, even as its policies and tariffs drive up the cost of groceries, energy, and other everyday necessities for Ohio families. He grew up on Cincinnati’s West Side and is an Air Force veteran and former CIA officer.  

Affordability
Healthcare

AFFORDABILITY

Greg Landsman

Landsman's most active current affordability push is on data centers. He's introduced multiple bills — the No Harm Data Center Act and the Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act — that would force data center operators, not everyday ratepayers, to cover the cost of the power grid upgrades their facilities require. He's pointed out that Ohio has nearly 200 data centers and says families "shouldn't be footing the bill" for them. 

Eric Conroy

Conroy's affordability message centers on cutting federal spending. He blames inflation on "out-of-control federal spending" and says he'd push for smaller government, lower middle-class taxes, and more domestic energy production to bring down fuel costs. His platform also promises to cut regulations he says hold back small businesses. He hasn't taken a specific position on data centers or utility rate increases, the issue that's become the dominant affordability flashpoint in his own district.

HEALTHCARE

Greg Landsman

Landsman's clearest healthcare win is the Saving Seniors Money on Prescriptions Act, co-led with a Republican colleague and signed into law this year — it requires pharmacy benefit managers to report savings and pass rebates back to insurers instead of pocketing them. He's also part of a bipartisan group pushing to extend ACA premium tax credits before they expire. On reproductive rights, he's a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and has backed federal bills to protect abortion access and expand contraception coverage.

Eric Conroy

Conroy's clearest stated position, from his own answers to an independent voter guide, is support for enforcing the Comstock Act — an old federal law that anti-abortion advocates want used to restrict mailing abortion medication. Beyond that, his public platform doesn't lay out a specific healthcare plan beyond general opposition to government-run insurance.