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December 19th , 2025 Len’s Political Note #775 John Kulewicz Ohio Attorney General
2026 General Election
Two Democrats are running for Ohio’s Attorney General. If John Kulewicz is nominated, he will help create a strong slate of Democratic candidates for statewide office. If Elliot Forhan is nominated the Democratic slate will include a former state rep who would be an embarrassment.
John Kulewicz recent interest in the position gives the Democrats a chance to claim the Attorney General office and increases the electability of the other Democrats running for statewide office.
John Kulewicz is a long distance, open water swimmer. Really. It is not a metaphor. He began regular swimming in the local pool nearly 25 years ago. That, it appears, was too confining. He has swum across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bosporus. He has participated in English Channel relays. And he has swum long distances in in places as exotic as the Solomon Islands and the Sea of Galilee. John Kulewicz still supports the local pool.
Retired now from a large Columbus law firm, he holds the only elective office he has ever run for. John Kulewicz is in his second term as a city councilor in Upper Arlington, a city with a suburban character and an architect designed old residential neighborhood. During the roughly forty years that he and his wife lived in Upper Arlington and raised a son and daughter, he has served as President of the Columbus Zoo, President of Catholic Social Services, and as an officer of the Ohio Historical Society Board.
A graduate of Ohio State and Yale Law School, when he retired from his law practice, he wrote a reflective book – An Ohioan’s Odyssey: Lessons in Leadership, Law, and Public Service. He had never demonstrated statewide or national political ambitions. Why now?
John Kulewicz has been interested in public service, not politics. He says ‘[Ohioians] feel no one is listening to them anymore. I’ve heard them loud and clear. Policies that ignore the needs of working families in Ohio are risking their pay, their safety, and their livelihoods.” He could say the Republicans, who control the legislature and every state-wide office except one position on the state supreme court are responsible for these woes. He does not say that.
John Kulewicz could say something about particular issues, but he does not. It does not take a lot of research, though to learn that John Kulewicz’ firm has represented Planned Parenthood on issues in Ohio. My guess is that the answer to the “why now” question…. that John Kulewicz’ candidacy is a response to Elliot Forhan’s candidacy. Forhan announced at the end of February 2025. By the time John Kulewicz announced in early September, 2025 he had completed a listening tour, visiting all 88 Ohio counties to hear what people had to say. Why that listening tour? He was being thorough, preparing himself for a run for attorney general when he could have had a comfortable retirement? But why?
More than likely, John Kulewicz either decided on his own or because Democratic leaders in Ohio urged him to run, in order to make certain that Elliot Forhan was not the Democratic nominee for Attorney General.
Forhan was a one term legislator whose relationship with other members of the legislature was so abrasive, so improper that the House Minority Leader stripped him of all committee roles and the House Speaker barred him from the House floor. Despite his Yale law degree, his stints with various law firms other than his own, with one exception, did not last longer than his two year term in the Ohio House of Representatives. The exception was a big New York City law firm where he lasted three years. It is possible that Forhan’s abrasive behavior was less noticeable there.
Instead of having a weak link running for Attorney General, Ohio Democrats, with John Kulewicz, would have a seriously strong slate of statewide candidates. DONATE to John Kulewicz’ campaign. Help him become Ohio’s Attorney General.
Crucial Ohio Races; crucial for them and for us.
For US Senator: Former US Senator Sherrod Brown. DONATE, A Mid-October had him leading by a point. See Len’s Political Note #750
For Governor: Former Ohio Health Director Amy Acton. DONATE A recent poll has her trailing by a point.. See Len’s Political Note #724
For Secretary of State: Either
Physician Bryan Hambley, an idealistic and appealing candidate. See Len’s Political Note #715 DONATE. OR
Ohio House Minority Leader Allison Russo, an experienced and effective political leader. DONATE.
Help Ohio transform a state which now has only one statewide elected Democrat – one of the state’s seven Supreme Court Justices. These state-wide candidates could turn Ohio politics upside down.
Three Ohio Members of Congress who need your help and one neighbor who especially needs your help.
Ohio 09. Marcy Kaptur. The longest serving woman ever in Congress. Her roots are in the Catholic left. Now a moderate, the Republicans thought they had her with redistricting in 2022. Their candidate lost after lying about his military service. The Republican candidate for 2024 lost by .6% of the total vote. Mid-term redistricting of her Toledo-based district has made her candidacy even tougher. At least four Republicans are running to be her opponent. DONATE to Marcy Kaptur’s campaign. See Len’s Political Note #718
Ohio 13 Emilia Sykes. The scioness of a politically powerful Akron-based African American family, mid-term redistricting did not make her candidacy tougher. Disappointed, her probable Republican opponent withdrew. Her current opponent is a business consultant, a woman who has spent time addressing the problem of fetal alcohol syndrome. DONATE. See Len’s Political Note #728
Ohio 01 Greg Landsman. Ohio BA, Harvard Divinity School MA, he was director of faith based initiatives for the last Democratic governor of Ohio, ran a foundation focused on children and preschool, served on the Cincinnati City Council, and ousted a Republican incumbent Congressman. Ohio’s Mid-decade redistricting targeted him. Republican candidates are beginning to line up. DONATE to Greg Landsman’s campaign.
Indiana 01 Frank Mrvan. As powerful as a Democrat can be in Indiana, Frank Mrvan’s father and namesake was a state senator for decades. Frank Mrvan, a township trustee and a sales rep, ran to replace a resigning Congressman who endorsed him for the position. Elected in 2020, he was considered vulerable in 2022 and 2024 and won by relatively narrow margins. Indiana’s redistricting would have made his candidacy nearly impossible. Now that Indiana State Senate Republicans have rejected Donald Trump’s pressure and refused to redistrict, Frank Mrvan will have to win the old fashioned way. Indiana traditional Republicans rejected Trump’s plans because they disliked bullying and changing the rules in the middle of the game, not because they are fond of union-supporting Frank Mrvan. They would love to defeat him as a vulnerable Democrat, DONATE to Frank Mrvan’s campaign.
