SCORECARD · KEVIN HERN accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · OK-1 full conduct profile →
70/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
95
Contradiction risk25%
80
Connection density20%
49
Donor influence10%
83
Fact density10%
36
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 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 1

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

25% of 4 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 4 ↗ YEA 2025-01-27
    Rescissions package eliminating $9B in previously appropriated spending
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Voted for targeted spending cuts after previously accepting PPP loans; frames himself as deficit hawk while personal business benefited from pandemic spending he now seeks to rescind
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 4

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

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Opposed student loan forgiveness as 'unfair' while his own business received PPP loan forgiveness adding to deficit; called out by White House Twitter as hypocrisy in August 2022
  • position_evolution SCORE 60
    Advocated for 20% spending cuts to government programs as fiscal conservative while his business benefited from pandemic-era government spending programs
  • position_evolution SCORE 30
    Voted against debt ceiling increase citing 'swampy maneuver' while his own PPP loan forgiveness was enabled by that same spending framework
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Campaign statement pledged to 'stop adding to' deficit while his business simultaneously received $1-2M in federally-backed PPP loans that were ultimately forgiven, adding to deficit he claimed to oppose
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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. "Kevin Hern — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-h001082.

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