ADDITIONAL MEDIA RESOURCES
October 14, 2026
As both a corporate lobbyist and DC politician, Mike Carey has spent his career selling out the working people of Ohio for powerful corporate interests. Carey has voted in lockstep with Donald Trump on his Iran war, healthcare cuts, and tariffs costing Ohioans more for gasoline, housing, groceries, and healthcare.
Don Leonard is a dad and educator who is running to make life more affordable for Ohio families by taking the fight directly to the corporations and special interests to break their corrupting influence in our politics.
After persuadable voters have seen, heard and read the messages about Mike Carey’s history as a lobbyist and his work to put corporate interests first, the final message persuadable voters district-wide should receive- especially women, non-college educated voters, unaffiliated voters, and voters under 50 – in broadcast and cable TV ads, see on YouTube, OTT, streaming and Meta, and read in mail, is a clear contrast between Mike Carey and Don Leonard when it comes to who they are fighting for and why:
As a former lobbyist turned corrupt DC politician, Mike Carey has been in Washington, DC protecting the failed system by voting lock-step with Donald Trump’s reckless spending on the Iran war, taking healthcare coverage away with Medicaid cuts, and keeping Trump’s tariffs in place costing Ohioans more for gasoline, for housing, for groceries, and for healthcare.
Don Leonard is a dad and educator at The Ohio State University who is fed up with how Carey and others in Washington D.C. have failed working class Ohioans and believes that members of Congress should fight for the people and not corporate and special interests. Don will fight to lower costs, get money out of politics, and take on data center developers to prevent higher energy costs.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES