SCORECARD · RITCHIE TORRES accountability readout

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73/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
31
Contradiction risk25%
87
Connection density20%
86
Donor influence10%
65
Fact density10%
80
Constituency deviation5%
79
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 1

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

14.3% of 7 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 29 ↗ YEA 2025-01-07
    Laken Riley Act (119th Congress, January 7, 2025)
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Torres was one of only seven House Democrats who flipped from nay in March 2024 to yea in January 2025 on mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants accused of nonviolent crimes including shoplifting. His NY-15 district is 52.4% Hispanic with a massive immigrant community in the Bronx. He was one of only 48 Democrats to join all Republicans in passing the bill 264-159. His flip was documented by The Hill, Tipp Insights, and the Latin Times — and his primary challenger attacked him for 'inviting deportations' to the Bronx. The reversal is especially consequential given that his district is one of the most heavily immigrant districts in the country, and the Laken Riley Act was Trump's first legislative priority.
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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 3

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

  • reversal SCORE 90
    Torres voted nay on the Laken Riley Act in March 2024, opposing mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants. He then reversed to yea in January 2025 — one of only seven House Democrats to flip. His district has a massive immigrant community, and his January yea places him among the most conservative Democrats on immigration enforcement. A Bronx primary challenger called him out for 'inviting deportations' to the Bronx.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Torres represents the poorest congressional district in America — 24.3% poverty, majority Black and Latino — yet his top donors are AIPAC ($712K), Wall Street firms (Blackstone $148K, Apollo $78K), and far-right billionaires. He raises millions from a national donor base while rarely discussing local poverty, and Current Affairs noted he has 'opted instead to serve as Israel's loudest House supporter.' His district's median commute is 42.3 minutes, 53.7% of residents use public transit, only 17.7% own their home — and Torres has made Israel-Palestine his signature issue rather than Bronx poverty.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 50
    Torres voted for a $17 billion weapons package to Israel in April 2024 and championed bomb shipments to Israel — then in September 2024, for the first time in his life, purchased individual stocks exclusively in the three defense contractors profiting from those weapons sales: Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris. He concealed these purchases for nearly a year, violating the STOCK Act. CAIR-NY called it 'corruption in its rawest form: a member of Congress using his votes to enrich himself while tens of thousands of civilians are killed.' He voted to send weapons, bought stock in the weapons makers, and then hid the purchases.
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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. "Ritchie Torres — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-t000486.

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