SCORECARD · MARCY KAPTUR accountability readout

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79/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
85
Contradiction risk25%
87
Connection density20%
62
Donor influence10%
82
Fact density10%
74
Constituency deviation5%
52
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 1

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

16.7% of 6 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 5371 ↗ NAY_UNVERIFIED 2025-11-12
    Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026 — On Passage (Ending the 43-Day Shutdown)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Kaptur voted against ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. She justified the vote on healthcare grounds, warning that health insurance premiums could double. However, her Nay vote also rejected $3 million in Community Project Funding for OH-09 contained in the bill. Constituents in her 10.5% poverty-rate district — including furloughed federal workers and SNAP recipients hurt by the shutdown — needed the government reopened. Kaptur's healthcare rationale placed long-term policy objectives ahead of immediate constituent relief.
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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
    Kaptur voted against the CR (H.R. 5371) that contained $3 million in Community Project Funding for OH-09, then subsequently took credit for over $11 million in grants and funding she had 'secured' for her district — including from the very appropriations vehicles she had voted against. The Washington Reporter documented this 'vote no and take the dough' pattern, noting she 'failed to mention that she voted against funding mechanisms in the continuing resolutions that sent federal dollars to her district.'
  • position_evolution SCORE 90
    Kaptur voted for the Laken Riley Act (mandatory ICE detention) in January 2025 — one of only 46 Democrats to do so — but one year later voted against funding DHS/ICE, calling ICE operations 'illegal and un-American' and demanding reform. The Laken Riley Act expanded ICE detention authority; the DHS funding vote would have given ICE the resources to implement that authority. This creates a sharp contradiction between her votes expanding enforcement and subsequently defunding the enforcing agency.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 60
    Kaptur voted for the Farm Bill on April 30, 2026 — one of 14 Democrats crossing party lines — even though the bill locked in SNAP cuts from the OBBB that she had condemned as 'callously cruel' and 'an immoral transfer of wealth.' The Farm Bill preserved the $186 billion SNAP reduction she cited as a core reason for opposing the OBBB. Her vote aligned with agricultural interests in her district (18.4% manufacturing employment includes food processing) but contradicted her food-assistance advocacy.
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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. "Marcy Kaptur — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-k000009.

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