SCORECARD · JOHN HICKENLOOPER in office since 2021-01-03

John Hickenlooper dossier →

Democratic U.S. Senate · CO full conduct profile →
58/100
MODERATE CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
14
Contradiction risk25%
59
Connection density20%
83
Donor influence10%
60
Fact density10%
62
Constituency deviation5%
17
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 3

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 432 votes on file. 2 aligned, 4 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.

  • position_evolution SCORE 60
    Hickenlooper ran as a centrist problem-solver but has become one of the Senate Democrats most willing to confirm Trump nominees — voting for 10 Cabinet picks — placing him in tension with Colorado's progressive base. An analysis found he and Bennet give Colorado the 'biggest pro-Trump skew' of any Senate delegation, reflecting a purple-state electoral calculus that conflicts with his positioning as a reliable progressive vote.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    Hickenlooper's forceful opposition to the OBBBA — condemning it as cruel and harmful to working families — stands against his record of accommodating Trump on Cabinet confirmations. The dissonance between his policy votes (consistently Democratic) and his personnel votes (frequently bipartisan) creates an electoral brand tension where he is both a progressive policy champion and one of Trump's most cooperative Democratic confirmers.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Hickenlooper refused oil and gas corporate PAC money in his Senate campaign, but as governor he accepted millions in off-the-books donations from the same industry — including $325,000+ from Anadarko and Noble Energy — to fund positions within his own office while lacking any formal conflict-of-interest policy. The distinction between corporate PAC donations and direct corporate contributions to his governor's office is legally valid but substantively inconsistent on the question of whether fossil-fuel industry money influences his governance.
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

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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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