SCORECARD · JOSH GOTTHEIMER accountability readout

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Democratic U.S. House · NJ-5 full conduct profile →
72/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
47
Contradiction risk25%
69
Connection density20%
68
Donor influence10%
88
Fact density10%
88
Constituency deviation5%
0
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 5

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 1878 votes on file. 3 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.

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Gottheimer campaigns as a populist champion of 'hardworking Jersey families' and affordability, yet he is one of the wealthiest members of Congress with a net worth exceeding $40M — largely built through aggressive Wall Street options trading while sitting on committees with jurisdiction over the same companies whose stock he trades. The 'Jersey Guy' brand is at odds with the reality that roughly 75% of his campaign cash and nearly all his wealth derives from out-of-state Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and pro-Israel donor networks.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 60
    Gottheimer brands himself as a bipartisan moderate who can work with both parties, yet his voting record shows systematic defection toward GOP positions on Israel, financial regulation, and immigration — areas where his top donor interests (AIPAC, Wall Street) align with Republican priorities. Consumer groups labeled him a 'Dem Majority Saboteur,' and he led opposition to elements of Biden's Build Back Better agenda while receiving millions from the financial services industry his committee oversees.
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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. "Josh Gottheimer — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-g000583.

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