SCORECARD · TED LIEU accountability readout

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Democratic U.S. House · CA-36 full conduct profile →
61/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
69
Connection density20%
56
Donor influence10%
52
Fact density10%
54
Constituency deviation5%
20
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 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.

  • Rep. Rashida Tlaib's use of the phrase 'from the river to the sea' (November 2023) 6 days silent
    Expected position: As a member of House Democratic leadership (Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus), a prominent Jewish caucus ally, and the top recipient of AIPAC funds in California, Lieu would be expected to comment publicly on Tlaib's use of a phrase widely condemned as antisemitic and calling for the destruction of Israel. Evidence of activity on adjacent topics: Fox News reported on November 7, 2023 that 'Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., all refused to answer questions from Fox specifically on Tlaib's "from the river to the sea" comments.' During this same period, Lieu was active on other topics — he voted on the Israel supplemental funding bill and issued a statement on it on November 2, 2023, and he voted on the Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act. His refusal to comment occurred as Democratic leadership was strategizing to protect Tlaib from censure. Primary URL: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/key-top-dems-silent-controversial-tlaib-statements-wont-comment-possible-censure-vote
  • other / unclassified
    Aspire PAC, White Coat Waste PAC, Bmi Political Action Committee, Baker & Hostetler PAC, The Doctors Company Federal PAC (Docpac), Mattel Inc. Political Action Committee, Society For Cardiovascular Angiography And Interventions (Scai) PAC (amounts: $7,500 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $7,500 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024)) — interest area: other / unclassified
  • colleagues' leadership pacs
    Democracy Summer Leadership PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: colleagues' leadership pacs
  • party committees
    Interested donors: VoteVets
    VoteVets (amounts: $10,000 (2026)) — interest area: party committees
  • ideological & single-issue
    Interested donors: Asian American Forward
    Asian American Forward (amounts: $10,000 (2024)) — interest area: ideological & single-issue
  • corporate pacs, industry unlisted
    Mattel Inc. Political Action Committee, Igt Global Solutions Corporation (Igt) PAC, Vmware, Inc. Political Action Committee (Vmware PAC), Accenture Inc. PAC, Mckinsey & Company, Inc. United States Political Action Committee (Mckinsey PAC) (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: corporate pacs, industry unlisted
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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 1875 votes on file. 4 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 2

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

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Lieu publicly advocates for campaign finance reform and has challenged FEC rules in federal court, yet his own campaign spending pattern — funneling tens of thousands in donor funds to his wife's political campaign and his son's future university — drew accusations of converting campaign donations into personal family benefits. Campaign finance experts noted the pattern raised 'ethical questions' even if technically legal.
  • reversal SCORE 60
    Lieu condemned the 2025 Republican tax bill as a giveaway to billionaires, but votewith most Democrats for the 2017 Trump tax cuts that added $1.5 trillion to the debt with benefits heavily tilted toward corporations and the wealthy — the same fiscal framework he criticized in 2025. Both bills were named H.R.1, used reconciliation, and shared the same core architecture.
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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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