SCORECARD · CHRIS PAPPAS accountability readout

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Democratic U.S. House · NH-1 full conduct profile →
64/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
47
Contradiction risk25%
76
Connection density20%
49
Donor influence10%
84
Fact density10%
51
Constituency deviation5%
65
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 5

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 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 1879 votes on file. 0 aligned, 9 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 3

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

  • party_defection SCORE 90
    Pappas was one of 48 House Democrats to vote for the Laken Riley Act, breaking sharply with the majority of his party on mandatory ICE detention. Meanwhile, he receives both Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO endorsements — a rare combination that highlights his straddling of pro-business and pro-labor coalitions, but which critics argue reflects political triangulation rather than principled positioning.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    Pappas is touted as the most bipartisan House Democrat and breaks with his party on select procedural votes, yet his substantive voting record — 97% AFL-CIO score, opposing OBBB, supporting impeachment, opposing GOP budget resolutions — aligns almost perfectly with the Democratic mainstream, suggesting his 'bipartisan' label is driven more by measured rhetoric and careful issue selection than by transformative cross-aisle compromise.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 30
    Pappas cultivates a moderate image and has voted against legalizing cannabis federally (one of only six House Democrats to do so) and criticized Biden's student debt plan — positions that break from progressive orthodoxy and underscore his centrist political instincts in a swing district.
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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. "Chris Pappas — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-p000614.

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