SCORECARD · JON HUSTED accountability readout

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76/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
76
Connection density20%
80
Donor influence10%
94
Fact density10%
54
Constituency deviation5%
64
Voting misalignment5%
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Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

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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.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 2

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

25% of 8 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • S.Con.Res. ↗ NAY 2025-09-19
    Vote Against Extending Enhanced ACA Tax Credits
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Husted voted against permanently extending Affordable Care Act cost-lowering tax credits. Approximately 513,000 Ohioans benefited from the enhanced subsidies in 2025 according to the Health Policy Institute of Ohio. His opponent Sherrod Brown has made this vote central to his campaign messaging. Husted later said he supports 'some kind' of ACA subsidy extension.
  • H.R. 1 ↗ YEA 2025-07-01
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — Senate passage
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Husted voted yea on what the Ohio Democratic Party and health policy analysts described as 'the largest Medicaid cut in U.S. history.' Joint Economic Committee analysis projected 490,000 Ohioans would lose health coverage under the bill, and 11 rural Ohio hospitals faced closure risk. Over 25% of Ohioans (~3 million people) receive health coverage through Medicaid. Husted described the cuts as 'purposeful' and said 'I love doing that kind of stuff' on WTVN 610 radio. The bill passed 51-50 with VP Vance casting the tie-breaker. Three Senate Republicans voted nay (Collins, Murkowski, McConnell). Husted's chief campaign challenger, Sherrod Brown, has made the OBBBA vote the centerpiece of his 2026 comeback bid.
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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
    Husted bragged about 'loving' to push Medicaid work requirements and cuts — which would strip coverage from approximately 490,000 Ohioans and threaten 11 rural Ohio hospitals with closure — while telling struggling Ohio families to simply 'earn more' money and criticizing their work ethic. Approximately 3 million Ohioans, over 25% of the state's population, receive health coverage through Medicaid.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    Husted posted on social media calling the OBBBA a 'pro-family bill for working class families,' then deleted the post after being questioned about a photo showing him laughing with lobbyists. Shortly thereafter, he told a radio audience he 'loves' fighting for Medicaid work requirements that would strip coverage from nearly half a million Ohioans. Both accounts are drawn from overlapping news reporting; editors may downgrade visibility.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Husted repeatedly stated he had 'no role' in the HB6 bailout legislation at the center of Ohio's largest-ever corruption scandal, yet his own calendars obtained through public records revealed multiple meetings and calls with the three key players in the scheme — FirstEnergy's CEO, the state's top utility regulator, and the House Speaker who was convicted and sentenced to 20 years. Evidence presented at trial showed the CEO and lobbyist explicitly discussing Husted's push for additional subsidies in the bill.
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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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