SCORECARD · WILLIAM R. TIMMONS accountability readout

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66/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
31
Contradiction risk25%
69
Connection density20%
80
Donor influence10%
64
Fact density10%
81
Constituency deviation5%
55
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 4

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. 3746 ↗ NAY 2023-05-31
    Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (debt ceiling deal)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Timmons voted against raising the debt ceiling, joining 71 House Republicans while 149 supported the deal. A default would have jeopardized Social Security for thousands of SC-04 seniors, Medicare, and veterans' benefits. He justified his vote by claiming the bill did not address the 'core drivers' of the $32 trillion debt, prioritizing fiscal messaging over constituent material interests in avoiding economic catastrophe.
  • H.Res. 24 ↗ YEA 2021-01-07
    Objecting to Pennsylvania's Electoral College certification
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Timmons voted to sustain the objection to Pennsylvania's electoral votes hours after the Capitol insurrection, joining 138 House Republicans. His vote directly challenged the peaceful transfer of power, contradicting his oath to defend the Constitution, and aligned with Trump's false claims of a stolen election rather than his district's interest in democratic stability.
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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.

  • position_evolution SCORE 90
    Timmons justified his Electoral College objection as upholding his Constitutional oath, yet after the violent Capitol insurrection, he minimized Trump's role, called the attackers a 'small number,' and never acknowledged Biden's legitimate victory—a contrast noted by the Greenville County Democratic Party. Sources are from different hostnames (timmons.house.gov vs. greenvilledemocrats.com).
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Timmons enthusiastically promoted DEI initiatives in congressional hearings, calling proportional racial representation a 'top priority,' then in 2024 under primary pressure claimed those same statements were 'selectively edited and taken out of context' and insisted they had 'nothing to do with 2024 DEI.' This is a full reversal on the same policy question—diversity in congressional hiring—under electoral pressure. Both quotes come from the same secondary source (bizpacreview.com), so editors may downgrade visibility.
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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. "William R. Timmons — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-t000480.

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