{"id":21252,"date":"2026-10-29T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=21252"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:29:44","slug":"john-kulewicz-to-represent-the-interests-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/john-kulewicz-to-represent-the-interests-of-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kulewicz to Represent the Interests of the People"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Fletcher Word
\n<\/em>The Truth Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

John Kulewicz, a retired attorney, is on the ballot this election cycle as the Democratic Party\u2019s candidate for Ohio attorney general. His Republican opponent is Keith Faber, the Ohio state auditor.<\/p>\n

A lawyer with scant political experience, Kulewicz believes he is exactly what Ohioans need. \u201cAt this point in our history in Ohio, we need a lawyer, not a politician, to serve as attorney general,\u201d Kulewicz has said.<\/p>\n

During a chat with The Truth last week, Kulewicz explained his concerns about the difficulties Ohio\u2019s citizens face, particularly with mounting challenges of widespread fraud and scams, but also with the lack of accountability on the part of government offices and office holders.<\/p>\n

As he organized his campaign for attorney general, Kulewicz visited all 88 Ohio counties to get an understanding of what residents in all parts of the state need from their government.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople gave me the opportunity to see life from their perspectives,\u201d he says. And the sum of those perspectives, the candidate recalls, is a general feeling that a lack of connection exists between Ohio residents and their government.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople feel no one in Columbus is paying attention,\u201d he says. \u201cPeople feel no one is protecting jobs or protecting our safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, from a long-time lawyer\u2019s standpoint, he feels his experience will be put to good use as the state\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n

The job of an attorney general, explains Kulewicz, has two aspects. One, \u201che\u2019s a lawyer for the state,\u201d overseeing matters \u201csuch as criminal justice, commerce, education\u201d while representing the state.<\/p>\n

The second aspect, he says, is \u201crepresenting the interests of the people\u201d in matters such as \u201cconsumer protection, wage theft, unlawful discrimination, antitrust, elder abuse\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

In that second aspect of the attorney general\u2019s job is where things have gone adrift in recent years, says Kulewicz, and have \u201cdiminished in importance over time \u2026 we really need to make them a priority again.\u201d The office, he adds, has become \u201ctoo political in my view.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kulewicz believes that \u201cin this state, people care about their pocketbooks and their pay checks\u201d and that is not a feeling shared by many in Columbus.<\/p>\n

Critically, Kulewicz is also focused on the warning signs that demographically things could get worse for Ohioans in the future. He cites forecasts that predict a 700,000 loss in population for the state in the coming years. That loss, he says, will mean that the state\u2019s population on average will be much older \u2013 as younger folks leave for jobs, leaving more grandparents here. Elder abuse, he says, will become a much more prevalent problem.<\/p>\n

In spite of his relative lack of elected office experience \u2013 he is serving his second term in the Upper Arlington City Council \u2013 Kulewicz is optimistic about his chances to win this statewide office.<\/p>\n

His campaign\u2019s internal polling taken in June showed a virtual tie between the two candidates, as 73 percent of respondents did not know anything about his opponent, Faber who has held elective office since 2001 (as state representative, state senator and state auditor). The same polls taken in late summer show Kulewicz up by four points over Faber.<\/p>\n

His travels have given him the same sense of confidence. \u201cI can distinguish a friendly environment from an unfriendly one,\u201d he says of his encounters with the public throughout Ohio\u2019s 88 counties.<\/p>\n

Kulewicz is an Ohio native. He grew up in Columbus and earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from The Ohio State University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. He spent 44 years with the Columbus law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, arguing successfully before the United States Supreme Court on several occasions.<\/p>\n

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By Fletcher Word The Truth Editor John Kulewicz, a retired attorney, is on the ballot this election cycle as the Democratic Party\u2019s candidate for Ohio attorney general. His Republican opponent is Keith Faber, the Ohio state auditor. A lawyer with scant political experience, Kulewicz believes he is exactly what Ohioans need. \u201cAt this point in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[372],"class_list":["post-21252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21254,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252\/revisions\/21254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21252"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=21252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}