SCORECARD · JOHN R. CURTIS accountability readout

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74/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
85
Contradiction risk25%
76
Connection density20%
68
Donor influence10%
90
Fact density10%
44
Constituency deviation5%
18
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 7

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 1493 votes on file. 2 aligned, 5 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 3

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

  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Curtis built his national brand as the Republican who takes climate change seriously — founding the Conservative Climate Caucus and being named to Time's climate leaders list — yet voted for legislation that dismantles federal clean-energy tax incentives for wind, solar, and electric vehicles. He negotiated a delay in the phaseout rather than preserving the credits, and his claim that the bill 'strengthens' clean energy is contradicted by analyses showing it accelerates the sunset of IRA energy provisions.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    Curtis campaigned as a fiscal conservative, withheld his own pay during shutdowns, and voted against the 2019 budget deal on deficit grounds — yet he voted for the OBBBA (2025), which the CBO projected would add $3.3 trillion to the deficit. The fiscal-conservative principle was applied selectively: deficit spending during a Democratic administration was objectionable, but trillions in tax cuts under a Republican president were acceptable.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    Curtis publicly called for 'compassion' in immigration enforcement and wrote movingly about watching a migrant's arrest, yet he co-sponsored and voted for the Laken Riley Act — legislation civil liberties groups argue mandates detention for nonviolent offenses without due process. His op-ed suggested ICE enforcement should be limited, but his vote expanded mandatory detention.
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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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