SCORECARD · JAY OBERNOLTE accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · CA-23 full conduct profile →
61/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
54
Connection density20%
41
Donor influence10%
66
Fact density10%
88
Constituency deviation5%
43
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 2

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

50% of 4 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 8035 ↗ NAY_UNVERIFIED 2024-04-20
    Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Obernolte voted in favor of Ukraine aid in 2022 (Lend-Lease Act and 2022 Ukraine Supplemental) and 2023 (H.R. 5692), but reversed to oppose the 2024 supplemental. This shift aligns with the growing isolationist wing of the GOP, while his earlier support reflected the post-invasion bipartisan consensus. The reversal marks a significant evolution in his foreign policy stance.
  • H.J.Res. 11 ↗ YEA_UNVERIFIED 2021-01-06
    Objection to Arizona Electoral College Results — Joint Session of Congress Certification of 2020 Presidential Election
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Obernolte voted to sustain the objection to Arizona's electoral results and also objected to Pennsylvania's results. His district (then CA-08) was won by Biden, and the objection came hours after the Capitol riot. This vote placed him at odds with the will of constituents who voted for the certified winner.
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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 1

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

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Obernolte has repeatedly touted fiscal conservatism and deficit reduction as core principles, yet voted for H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) which the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to deficits over a decade, contradicting his public stance on fiscal discipline.
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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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CitationGoblin House. "Jay Obernolte — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-o000019.

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