SCORECARD · BRENDAN F. BOYLE accountability readout

Brendan F. Boyle dossier →

Democratic U.S. House · PA-2 full conduct profile →
75/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
87
Connection density20%
77
Donor influence10%
75
Fact density10%
54
Constituency deviation5%
13
Voting misalignment5%
0

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 6

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

All silence flags for Brendan F. Boyle →
02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 1

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

10% of 10 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 29 / S. 5 ↗ YEA 2025-01-22
    Laken Riley Act
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Flipped from 'nay' in March 2024 to 'yea' in January 2025 — one of only seven House Democrats to reverse position. The bill mandates detention of undocumented immigrants merely accused of theft without conviction. Boyle offered no public explanation for his reversal.
Full voting record + platform comparison →
03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 3

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Boyle frames SALT deduction repeal as essential for 'middle class taxpayers' and 'working families,' but nonpartisan analyses show over 90% of SALT benefits go to filers earning above $200,000 and 62% to the top 1% — a deeply regressive tax break that is incompatible with his progressive, working-class self-branding.
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Boyle voted against the Laken Riley Act in March 2024, then flipped to support it in January 2025 — one of only seven House Democrats to reverse after the election. The bill requires detention of undocumented immigrants merely accused of theft without conviction, which critics called a 'racist immigration bill.' Boyle offered no public statement explaining his reversal.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    Boyle's campaign spent nearly $6,600 in campaign donor funds at Disney World for lodging with no clear fundraising purpose, while he simultaneously brands himself as a working-class immigrant's son focused on income inequality — a use of campaign funds that critics questioned as potentially improper personal enrichment.
Contradictions ledger →

What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

⌗ Cite this
Permalinkhttps://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-b001296
CitationGoblin House. "Brendan F. Boyle — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-b001296.

Sourced from public records and content-hashed; verify via /attestation, standard at /methodology.