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Republican · Ohio House, district 54

Serving since Jan 1, 2025OH 2025–26 session

Portrait of Kellie Deeter, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$385.3K
in itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle, in the top 5% of State House Republicans

The median for State House Republicans is $33.7K. Ranks 106th of 2,521, where 1st raised the most. 410 itemized donors.

Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2026 cycle, ranked among State House Republicans. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.

At a glance

6 measures against State House Republicans. 70% of the 54 bills Deeter sponsored got out of committee, in the top half of the Ohio House. 91% of Deeter’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Ohio, in the bottom half of State House Republicans.

The measures on which Deeter sits furthest from the middle of State House Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Itemized, 2026

$385.3K

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 106th of 2,521

Party unity

100%

Ohio House average 93.3% · ranks 23rd of 98 · 0 votes against the majority of Ohio House Republicans

Out of committee

70%

Ohio House average 58% · ranks 26th of 98

From Ohio, 2026

91%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1614th of 2,335 State House Republicans

CSIP ideology

+0.40

More conservative than 58% of State House Republicans · ± 0.05

Attendance

100%

Ohio House average 100% · ranks 50th of 98 · 311 roll calls

Peer group: State House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Deeter, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Deeter is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Deeter says

No statements for the OH 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the OH 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Deeter sits at +0.40 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 58% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.35 to +0.45, which understates the uncertainty; from 888 donors and 100 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

+0.40

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.35 to +0.45. From 888 donors and 100 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Deeter +0.4State House Republicans +0.4Ohio House +0.3All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Deeter, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Deeter’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Deeter sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Deeter +0.4Ohio Housemedian +0.3All State Housemedian +0.1
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Deeter's CSIP score of +0.40 placed against State House Republicans, Ohio House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Deeter
State House Republicans2917+0.458%
Ohio House99+0.364%
All State House5324+0.177%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Deeter in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Deeter.

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Money

Deeter reported $385.3K in the 2026 cycle, 11.4 times the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 91% of itemized individual money came from Ohio.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$385.3K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 410 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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  • Individuals (itemized)65 squares$250.5K
  • PACs and other committees35 squares$133.7K
  • Party committees$1,169
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Sources of Deeter's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$250.5K65.0%
PACs and other committees$133.7K34.7%
Party committees$1,1690.3%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2024 cycle: $338.7K$338.7K20242026 cycle: $385.3K$385.3K2026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Deeter's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2024 cycle$338.7K
2026 cycle$385.3K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 91% came from Ohio.

  1. Ohio$227.6K
  2. Tennessee$6,093
  3. Florida$3,394
  4. Arizona$2,183
  5. Indiana$1,645

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: $100MEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: $521NHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: $104IDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: $31MNIllinois: $208ILWisconsin: $52WIMichigan: $1,277MINew York: $881NYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: $464ORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: $275SDIowa: $265IAIndiana: $1,645INOhio: $227.6KOHPennsylvania: $52PANew Jersey: $229NJConnecticut: $104CTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: $102MOKentucky: $365KYWest Virginia: $104WVVirginia: $255VAMaryland: $52MDDelaware: $350DEArizona: $2,183AZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: $104KSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: $6,093TNNorth Carolina: $360NCSouth Carolina: $712SCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: $1,141LAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: $104ALGeorgia: $337GAHawaii: no dataHITexas: $989TXFlorida: $3,394FL
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Deeter's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Ohio$227.6K
Tennessee$6,093
Florida$3,394
Arizona$2,183
Indiana$1,645
Michigan$1,277
Louisiana$1,141
Texas$989
New York$881
South Carolina$712
New Hampshire$521
Oregon$464
Kentucky$365
North Carolina$360
Delaware$350
Georgia$337
South Dakota$275
Iowa$265
Virginia$255
New Jersey$229
Illinois$208
Idaho$104
Connecticut$104
West Virginia$104
Kansas$104
Alabama$104
Missouri$102
Maine$100
Wisconsin$52
Pennsylvania$52
Maryland$52
Minnesota$31
AlaskaNo data
VermontNo data
WashingtonNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
New MexicoNo data
ArkansasNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
MississippiNo data
HawaiiNo data
410

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

91%

from Ohio

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Ohio. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. WIERS FARMS/FARMER$4,950 7 donors
  2. CLEVELAND CLINIC/CRNA$2,234 9 donors
  3. RETIRED$2,127 12 donors
  4. CRNA/CLEVELAND CLINIC$1,891 10 donors
  5. N/A/RETIRED$1,395 5 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. OSANA NURSE ANESTHETISTS PAC$33.2K
  2. POLITICAL EDUCATION PATTERNS$8,000
  3. THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS CRNA PAC$5,000
  4. DEALERS INVESTMENT GROUP PAC$3,500
  5. ACRE PAC$2,500

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Deeter voted with the majority of Ohio House Republicans on 100% of party-line votes and missed none of 311 roll calls. Ohio House on average: 93.3% party unity, 100% attendance. Across all roll calls, Deeter never voted against the majority of Ohio House Republicans.

311 roll calls Deeter could vote on in the OH 2025–26 session, compared with Ohio House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Deeter voted with the majority of Ohio House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

0

votes against the majority of Ohio House Republicans

Party unity 100%, Ohio House average 93.3%, ranks 23rd of 98. 311 roll calls in the OH 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Deeter, the thin grey bar the Ohio House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Deeter
Peers
Rank
Attendance
100%
100%
50th of 98
Party unity
100%
93.3%
23rd of 98
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Deeter's attendance and party unity against Ohio House.
RowDeeterPeers
Attendance100%100%
Party unity100%93.3%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the OH 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Oct 1, 2026
HB 519
Prohibit specified actions with intent to steal a motor vehicle
Concurred in Senate amendments
YeaWith majoritypassD 15–16 · R 63–0Democrats 15 yea, 16 nay; Republicans 63 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 11, 2026
HB 105
Revise non-recourse litigation funding agreement regulations
Concurred in Senate amendments
YeaWith majoritypassD 20–11 · R 62–1Democrats 20 yea, 11 nay; Republicans 62 yea, 1 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 11, 2026
HB 173
Regards entities providing behind-the-meter utility services
Concurred in Senate amendments
YeaWith majoritypassD 1–29 · R 55–6Democrats 1 yea, 29 nay; Republicans 55 yea, 6 naymuch discussed
Jun 11, 2026
SB 315
Enact the Enhanced Cybersecurity for SNAP Act
Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 25–8 · R 63–2Democrats 25 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 63 yea, 2 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 11, 2026
SB 450
Make capital appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2028
Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 33–0 · R 62–3Democrats 33 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 62 yea, 3 naybecame law
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Deeter most often

  1. Ty MathewsR308 shared votes100%
  2. Adam BirdR310 shared votes100%
  3. David ThomasR311 shared votes100%
  4. Jim HoopsR307 shared votes100%
  5. Matt HuffmanR311 shared votes100%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Deeter least often

  1. Tristan RaderD268 shared votes75%
  2. Juanita BrentD250 shared votes76%
  3. Munira AbdullahiD275 shared votes76%
  4. Desireè TimsD272 shared votes78%
  5. Ashley Bryant BaileyD204 shared votes79%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

OH 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Deeter sponsored 54 bills in the OH 2025–26 session; 5 became law. Cosponsored 204 others. 70% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Ohio House average 58%; 26th of 98).

The bills Deeter sponsored and cosponsored in the OH 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the OH 2025–26 session

Sponsored54 billsSponsored, Introduced: 5454Sponsored, In committee: 5353Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 3737Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 66Sponsored, Became law: 55Cosponsored204 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 204204Cosponsored, In committee: 203203Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 141141Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 7171Cosponsored, Became law: 6262IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Deeter sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored54533765
Cosponsored2042031417162
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Deeter sponsored, ochre blocks bills Deeter cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

70%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Ohio House average 58%. Ranks 26th of 98.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Deeter, by number of shared bills in the OH 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Josh Williams47
  2. Sean Brennan39
  3. Jennifer Gross35
  4. Tex Fischer33
  5. Jack Daniels29
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Deeter’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
HR 515Honoring Cohen Reer as a 2026 Division III State Wrestling Champion.SponsorAug 6, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedAdopted Aug 6, 2026
HR 514Honoring the Grafton Midview Nancy’s Diner baseball team as the 2026 Hot Stove Class F State Champion.SponsorAug 3, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedAdopted Aug 3, 2026
HR 513Honoring Cohen Reer on winning a 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals Wrestling Championship.SponsorAug 3, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedAdopted Aug 3, 2026
HB 973Create emergency vehicle access routes across railroadsCosponsorJul 13, 2026IntroducedTransportation and Public Works(model)Introduced Jul 13, 2026
HB 972Prohibit certain health plan issuer pharmacy restrictionsSponsorJul 1, 2026IntroducedHealth(model)Introduced Jul 1, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 3 times in 90 days. Deeter’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Deeter’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Deeter posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Deeter posted

No images from Deeter’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

19 turns, Mar 5, 2025 to Jun 10, 2026

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Deeter is most unusual among State House Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
97821235-4116-44d1-b58b-acf822bbdc58
Open States
ocd-person/97821235-4116-44d1-b58b-acf822bbdc58

Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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