SCORECARD · DAVID G. VALADAO accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · CA-22 full conduct profile →
77/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
95
Contradiction risk25%
87
Connection density20%
68
Donor influence10%
94
Fact density10%
31
Constituency deviation5%
64
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 8

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, 0 related.

03

Broken promises 1

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

  • David Valadao: signed the April 2025 Medicaid red line, then voted for the cuts BROKE · 2025-07-03
    On July 3, 2025, David Valadao voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave millions more Americans without health coverage. Only two House Republicans voted no; one, Brian Fitzpatrick, cited the bill's deeper Medicaid cuts.
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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
    Valadao publicly pledged not to damage Medicaid, which covers two-thirds of his district, then cast the deciding vote for the OBBB which the CBO projected would cut $700 billion from Medicaid — prompting constituents to chant 'I feel betrayed' at protests and leading both of his Democratic opponents to accuse him of lying.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Valadao voted against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, calling it 'reckless,' then lobbied for at least $168 million from the same law for his district and publicly celebrated the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant that it funded — a classic 'Voted No, Took the Dough' pattern that drew national attention.
  • reversal SCORE 60
    Valadao was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2021, calling his conduct 'abhorrent' and 'absolutely an impeachable offense,' but subsequently endorsed Trump in 2024 and voted for the Trump-backed OBBB — a reversal from accountability advocate to party loyalty that critics attribute to political survival in a Trump-dominated GOP.
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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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