SCORECARD · MIKE KENNEDY accountability readout

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63/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
91
Connection density20%
49
Donor influence10%
30
Fact density10%
65
Constituency deviation5%
75
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.

01

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.

28.6% of 7 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 2310 ↗ NAY 2025-12-18
    Protect Children's Health Act (Federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors)
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Kennedy voted AGAINST a federal felony ban on gender-affirming surgeries and procedures for transgender minors — breaking with most House Republicans. This is the exact opposite of his position as sponsor of Utah's SB 16, which banned those procedures at the state level. Kennedy explained his federalism-based rationale on talk radio. The vote represents a rare same-policy-question reversal (state ban yes, federal ban no) and positioned him as one of the few GOP members to break with the party on transgender healthcare legislation — a position that could create vulnerability in his R+33 district among socially conservative primary voters.
  • H.R. 1 ↗ YEA 2025-07-03
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House final passage
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Kennedy voted yea on legislation the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to deficits and cut approximately $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP. As a family physician, his vote for massive Medicaid cuts directly contradicts his professional oath to 'do no harm' — a contradiction that drew condemnation from fellow Utah physicians. Only 2 House Republicans voted nay. The CWA gave him a 0% score for 2025, specifically citing this bill as 'deep and damaging cuts to vital programs like Medicaid' that 'undermine the economic security of working families.' The SBA Pro-Life America scorecard praised him for defunding Planned Parenthood through this vote. His UT-03 district has 6.2-9.7% poverty and thousands depending on Medicaid.
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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.

  • reversal SCORE 90
    Kennedy sponsored SB 16, Utah's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, calling the procedures 'dangerous and irreversible' — yet voted against the federal Protect Children's Health Act in December 2025, which would have criminalized those same procedures nationwide. His stated reason (federalism/state discretion) places him in the paradoxical position of supporting a state-level ban while opposing a federal ban on the same procedures. This is a rare same-policy-question reversal: he voted to ban at the state level but to permit at the federal level within two years.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Kennedy campaigns as a fiscal conservative who demands spending restraint, yet voted for the OBBBA which the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt. The AFL-CIO and CWA both opposed the bill as devastating to working families. The discrepancy between Kennedy's fiscal-discipline rhetoric and his vote supporting deficit-expanding reconciliation is a direct contradiction of his stated principles.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Kennedy built his political identity around being a family physician who would bring a doctor's perspective to healthcare policy while invoking the oath to 'do no harm.' He then voted for the OBBBA — which the CBO projected would cut $1 trillion from Medicaid — and opposed extending ACA enhanced subsidies that keep premiums affordable for over 1-in-10 Utahns. A Salt Lake Tribune letter from a Utah Republican and physician stated plainly: 'Mike Kennedy is betraying both his district and his oath.' The CWA gave him a 0% score for 2025, noting he voted against working people on all key votes including budget reconciliation and healthcare measures.
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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. "Mike Kennedy — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-k000403.

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