SCORECARD · KRISTEN MCDONALD RIVET accountability readout

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Democratic U.S. House · MI-8 full conduct profile →
76/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
79
Connection density20%
62
Donor influence10%
81
Fact density10%
89
Constituency deviation5%
24
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 1

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

20% of 5 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 5371 ↗ NAY_UNVERIFIED 2025-09-19
    Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026 — On Passage
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] McDonald Rivet voted against the continuing resolution that included more than $4.3 million in Community Project Funding she had personally earmarked for her district — including a childcare facility in Hemlock, Central Michigan University equipment, and substance recovery network funding. She later took credit for some of these projects at press conferences without disclosing her opposition vote. Her stated reason was the bill's failure to extend enhanced ACA subsidies, but the vote illustrates the 'vote no and take the dough' dynamic.
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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.

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    McDonald Rivet held a press conference taking credit for $866,000 in Bridgeport Fire Department funding she had 'secured' through her Community Project Funding Initiative — but she voted against the appropriations bill (H.R. 5371, Roll Call 285) that contained the funding. She publicly celebrated the funding without disclosing her 'no' vote.
  • reversal SCORE 90
    McDonald Rivet moved from calling policing 'a structure put in place to oppress' and being a 'ferocious supporter of the Defund the Police movement' in 2020 to claiming she was 'very proud to stand with' law enforcement and had supported them 'my entire career' in 2025. Her 2020 statements and $21,000 in donations from a Soros-backed defund-the-police PAC directly contradict her 2025 framing of consistent law enforcement support.
Contradictions ledger →

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. "Kristen McDonald Rivet — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-m001237.

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