SCORECARD · NICK LALOTA accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · NY-1 full conduct profile →
81/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
95
Contradiction risk25%
89
Connection density20%
56
Donor influence10%
83
Fact density10%
82
Constituency deviation5%
63
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.

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Silence on donor-funded topics 8

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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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.

22.2% of 9 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.Con.Res. 14 ↗ YEA 2025-02-25
    House Budget Resolution (FY 2025) — Laying Groundwork for OBBB Reconciliation
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] LaLota voted Yea (217-215) on the budget resolution that directed the Energy and Commerce Committee to cut $880 billion from programs where Medicaid is 93% of spending. He then posted a video telling constituents it 'protects Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid' — a claim PolitiFact rated FALSE. This vote, paired with his subsequent misleading constituent communication, became a central liability: the DCCC and House Majority PAC used it in attack ads, and constituent polling showed 51% had serious concerns about his budget votes. It was the procedural gateway to the OBBB he later voted for.
  • H.R. 5692 ↗ NAY 2023-09-28
    Ukraine Security Assistance and Oversight Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] LaLota voted against standalone Ukraine aid in 2023 but voted for the larger 2024 aid package — a notable one-year evolution. Republicans for Ukraine noted he made 'anti-Ukraine statements' including: 'Public support for sending more and more money to Ukraine is cratering, in my district, and others.' This early skepticism of Ukraine funding, followed by his high-profile discharge petition signature and Yea vote in 2024, demonstrates a shift from MAGA-aligned skepticism to leadership-backed internationalism as he sought to cultivate a moderate brand in a competitive district.
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03

Broken promises 1

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

  • Nick LaLota: signed the April 2025 Medicaid red line, then voted for the cuts BROKE · 2025-07-03
    On July 3, 2025, Nick LaLota voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave millions more Americans without health coverage. Only two House Republicans voted no; one, Brian Fitzpatrick, cited the bill's deeper Medicaid cuts.
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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
    LaLota's press release framed the OBBB as achieving 'deficit reduction' while 'protecting Social Security and Medicare.' The CBO found the opposite — the bill would add $3-4 trillion to the deficit. Constituent polling showed a majority had serious concerns about the bill's Medicaid and SNAP cuts. The framing of deficit reduction in his official statement is directly contradicted by the CBO's independent fiscal analysis.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    LaLota co-sponsored a bill to raise the SALT cap to $60,000/$120,000 and declared 'No Salt. No Deal. For Real.' He ultimately voted for the OBBB with a $40,000 cap — only two-thirds of his stated demand for single filers, one-third for joint filers, and without marriage-penalty relief. The New York Daily News reported the Republicans had 'apparently now backed away from' the marriage-penalty fix they had demanded.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] LaLota stated he 'was never asked by anyone to facilitate' a meeting for NY Cancer & Blood Specialists. But POLITICO documented he introduced the group's oncologist to testify before his House Small Business Committee, the doctor was first to donate ($3,000), and $43,000 from colleagues followed in June — a week before the group's CEO got 'facetime with the House speaker.' End Citizens United called it 'the very definition of pay-to-play politics.'
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] LaLota told constituents the budget resolution 'protects Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid' and promised 'I'll always be honest with you.' PolitiFact rated this claim FALSE, finding the resolution directed $880 billion in cuts from programs where Medicaid represents 93% of spending, contained no protective language, and his characterization 'creates a false impression of what his vote supported.' The DCCC headline read: 'BUSTED: Nick LaLota Caught Lying About Vote to Gut Medicaid.'
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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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