SCORECARD · RICK LARSEN accountability readout

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Democratic U.S. House · WA-2 full conduct profile →
74/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
31
Contradiction risk25%
80
Connection density20%
86
Donor influence10%
83
Fact density10%
78
Constituency deviation5%
54
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 4

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 1866 votes on file. 7 aligned, 3 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 4

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

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Larsen voted against the continuing resolution that ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, citing healthcare concerns. Within a week, he took credit for $2.165 million in USDA community project funding — and millions more in other earmarks — that were 'made possible' by the same appropriations process he voted against. The NRCC explicitly named Larsen among Democrats on a 'hypocrisy tour' for this contradiction.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 60
    Larsen's 99% AFL-CIO lifetime score and progressive voting record sit in some tension with his career-long acceptance of substantial defense and transportation industry PAC contributions. A progressive primary challenger documented that Larsen took more than $1.75 million from defense and transportation industries — whose interests he advanced through his Armed Services and Transportation Committee positions — while refusing to support Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, or a House resolution to overturn corporate personhood.
  • position_evolution SCORE 60
    Larsen voted against expanding ICE enforcement (Laken Riley Act) in January 2025, then voted for a temporary funding package that included ICE funding in February 2026, then voted against full-year ICE funding in March 2026. His shifting votes on ICE funding — Nay on Laken Riley, Yea on temporary DHS funding, Nay on permanent DHS funding — reflect a legislator navigating between progressive immigration positioning and the governing realities of keeping the government open.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Larsen voted against the FY2025 NDAA, condemning it as 'extreme legislation,' while simultaneously touting the military pay raises, school Impact Aid, frigate homeporting, and AI provisions he had secured within the same bill. His own press release celebrated these provisions as wins for his district even as he voted against the legislation that contained them. Larsen's Boeing and defense-industry donors ($1.75M+ career) benefited from the defense spending he publicly opposed.
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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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