SCORECARD · LAUREL M. LEE accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · FL-15 full conduct profile →
60/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
69
Connection density20%
49
Donor influence10%
62
Fact density10%
45
Constituency deviation5%
40
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.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 3

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

50% of 6 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 1 ↗ YEA 2025-07-03
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House passage
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Lee voted yea on legislation the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to the deficit and cut approximately $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP. Her FL-15 district has 9.7% poverty, median household income of $71,624, and thousands of residents dependent on Medicaid and SNAP. The AFL-CIO opposed the bill and gave Lee a 9% score for 2025. Only 2 Republicans voted nay. Lee's top donor sectors — including Koch Inc ($10K), real estate ($10K), and energy firms ($11K+) — backed the bill's tax and deregulatory provisions. The vote illustrates cross-pressure between her fiscal-conservative public brand and her support for deficit-expanding tax legislation.
  • H.Con.Res. 14 ↗ YEA 2025-02-25
    FY2025 Budget Resolution (Reconciliation Framework)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Lee voted yea on the budget resolution that set the framework for the OBBBA reconciliation, requiring $1.5 trillion in mandatory savings. The CWA and AFL-CIO both opposed the resolution, stating it 'threatens the financial security and well-being of millions of American workers by prioritizing tax cuts for the wealthy.' Lee's vote was party-line. The resolution enabled the $1 trillion Medicaid cuts enacted in H.R. 1.
  • H.R. 8035 ↗ NAY 2024-04-20
    Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Lee voted against $61 billion in Ukraine aid while the GOP majority voted nay (112 to 101). She has a C+ grade from Republicans for Ukraine. However, she previously voted in favor of Ukraine Security Assistance and Oversight Supplemental (H.R. 5692) in 2023, and for the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 (H.R. 2882). Her 2024 nay on the standalone supplemental reversed her earlier support posture — a shift from the foreign-policy establishment to the MAGA isolationist flank. Lee stated: 'We've got to continue to support Ukraine' but insisted on 'accountability and transparency about how they're being used on the ground.' Her 2024 nay aligned with the isolationist majority of her conference.
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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 2

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

  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Lee campaigns as a fiscal conservative who demands deficit reduction, yet voted for the OBBBA — legislation the nonpartisan CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt over ten years while cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid. The AFL-CIO, which gave Lee a 9% score for 2025, opposed the bill for 'devastating cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other important social safety programs to provide tax-cuts to the rich.'
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    Lee ran Florida's 2020 election as Secretary of State — receiving gold stars for a smooth operation — then oversaw SB 90 restrictions that civil rights groups said suppressed votes. Her 2023 debt ceiling vote aligned her with the governing establishment, while her 'election integrity' brand aligns with the Trump base — illustrating the cross-pressure between institutionalist governance and MAGA politics.
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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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