SCORECARD · KEN CALVERT accountability readout

Ken Calvert dossier →

Republican U.S. House · CA-41 full conduct profile →
72/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
95
Contradiction risk25%
48
Connection density20%
56
Donor influence10%
92
Fact density10%
89
Constituency deviation5%
16
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 8

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.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 0

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

No platform-contradicting votes among 1871 votes on file. 1 aligned, 4 related.

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 2

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

  • position_evolution SCORE 60
    Calvert voted against the Equality Act in 2021, continuing a nearly three-decade record opposing LGBTQ civil rights legislation (including voting for DOMA in 1996 and campaigning against a gay opponent). In 2022, he voted for the Respect for Marriage Act — a notable shift that came as his district grew more competitive with an openly gay Democratic challenger (Will Rollins). Calvert's office characterized the vote as reflecting 'evolving views,' but critics noted the timing coincided with a tough reelection fight.
  • position_evolution SCORE 60
    Calvert voted for the 2017 tax law imposing a $10,000 SALT deduction cap that disproportionately harmed high-tax states like California. Seven years later, as his district shifted to become more competitive and California homeowners felt the cap's impact on property values, Calvert championed raising the SALT cap to $40,000 — calling the original cap a form of double taxation. This represents a substantive policy reversal on the same statutory mechanism affecting the same population of California taxpayers.
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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.

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CitationGoblin House. "Ken Calvert — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-c000059.

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