Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-04-21T23:42:00.712Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress
Resolved official: Tom McClintock (entity #3450)
Ingest result: 23 facts · 23 sources · 1 silences · 1 contradictions · 4 voting_records · 4 skipped
Single super-prompt covering every per-official research area in one LLM call: donor mapping, silences, contradictions, telling votes, and constituency baseline. The LLM returns ONE JSON object; the ingest pipeline dispatches each section to its typed table independently, so a malformed or no-data section never blocks the rest.
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Tom McClintock's campaign raised $1,159,240.32 in total contributions for the 2024 election cycle, with $937,576.95 from individuals and $221,663.37 from party committees.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://hozzl.com/f/9dbec6f6f2e6f02e6ffe053c75b71291" }, { "fact_text": "Over his career (1991-2024), McClintock raised $16,083,767, with the top industry being 'Retired' at $1,832,120 and top contributor being Technical Maintenance Support Inc at $107,200.", "date_occurred": "2024-06-30", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&cid=N00006863&type=I" }, { "fact_text": "McClintock has a joint fundraising committee, MCCLINTOCK JFC, registered with the FEC since June 2022.", "date_occurred": "2022-06-03", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00817098/" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "Technical Maintenance Support Inc", "relationship_type": "major_donor", "description": "1991-2024: $107,200 via McClintock for Congress", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&cid=N00006863&type=I" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Quest Media & Supplies", "relationship_type": "major_donor", "description": "1991-2024: $84,900 via McClintock for Congress", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&cid=N00006863&type=I" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Northwest Excavating", "relationship_type": "major_donor", "description": "1991-2024: $72,698 via McClintock for Congress", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&cid=N00006863&type=I" }, { "donor_entity_name": "America's Credit Unions", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "1991-2024: $63,000 via PAC", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&cid=N00006863&type=I" } ] }, "silences": [ { "topic": "In-Person Town Halls and Direct Constituent Engagement", "expected_position": "As an elected representative, McClintock would be expected to hold open, in-person town halls to directly engage with constituents of all political views, especially given his long tenure and the controversy over his absence.", "window_start": "2017-09-21", "window_end": "2025-05-16", "evidence_summary": "McClintock has not held a public, in-person town hall since at least September 2017. Constituents in El Dorado County reported that requests for meetings were ignored, and his office staff refused to open the door to visitors. During this period, McClintock remained active on social media, issued press releases, and held fundraising events.", "primary_url": "https://www.mtdemocrat.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/where-is-our-congressman/article_eebdcf8c-162e-4b7b-82f6-74cf937c7198.html" } ], "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "I remain a tariff skeptic. I believe that free trade is the surest path to a nation's prosperity.", "claim_date": "2026-02-10", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://nordot.app/1395116591549432601" }, { "claim_text": "McClintock voted to continue Trump's unilateral executive control over American trade policy, effectively supporting tariffs.", "claim_date": "2026-02-11", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://nordot.app/1395116591549432601" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "statement_vs_vote", "severity": "medium", "narrative": "McClintock publicly declared himself a 'tariff skeptic' and proponent of free trade, yet he voted to preserve executive authority to impose tariffs, contradicting his stated principles." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.Res. 789", "title": "Release of House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-12-05", "roll_call_url": "https://www.newsweek.com/gop-matt-gaetz-ethics-report-vote-tom-mcclintock-1996505", "why_it_matters": "McClintock was the sole Republican voting to release the Gaetz report, citing transparency. This rare break from party ranks demonstrates an independent streak on accountability issues, though it may alienate some GOP donors and leadership.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.Res. 863", "title": "Impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2024-02-06", "roll_call_url": "https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article284957217.html", "why_it_matters": "McClintock joined two other Republicans in voting against impeaching Mayorkas, arguing it was an unconstitutional expansion of impeachment. This vote placed him at odds with his party's leadership and its hardline immigration stance.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 556", "title": "Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act", "vote": "aye", "vote_date": "2026-03-18", "roll_call_url": "https://data.northjersey.com/roll-call/member/mcclintock-tom/M001177/", "why_it_matters": "This vote supports hunting and fishing access on federal lands, aligning with his district's rural and outdoor recreation interests and his committee assignments on Natural Resources.", "category": "against_constituent" }, { "bill_id": "H.J.Res. 95", "title": "Proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution", "vote": "aye", "vote_date": "2026-03-18", "roll_call_url": "https://data.northjersey.com/roll-call/member/mcclintock-tom/M001177/", "why_it_matters": "A cornerstone of McClintock's fiscal conservatism, this vote aligns with his long-standing advocacy for a balanced budget amendment and appeals to his donor base in the 'Retired' and 'Republican/Conservative' industries.", "category": "donor_aligned" } ], "constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "California's 5th congressional district is a largely rural and suburban district covering the northern San Joaquin Valley and central Sierra Nevada, including parts of Modesto, Fresno, and Yosemite National Park. The district has a population of approximately 773,000, with a median household income of $92,960, which is well above the national median. It is predominantly White (59-63%) with a significant Hispanic population (26-27%). The economy is driven by agriculture, healthcare, retail, and tourism. The district leans heavily Republican with a Cook PVI of R+8 to R+24 (depending on the source), and has been represented by Tom McClintock since 2009.", "top_employers": [ { "name": "Kaiser Permanente", "employees": 10000, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-5-ca" }, { "name": "Sutter Health", "employees": 10000, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-5-ca" }, { "name": "Modesto City Schools", "employees": 3000, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-5-ca" } ], "dominant_industries": [ { "naics": "622110 - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals", "share": 0.14, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-5-ca" }, { "naics": "111000 - Crop Production", "share": 0.12, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-5-ca" }, { "naics": "452000 - General Merchandise Stores", "share": 0.1, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-5-ca" } ], "recent_ballot_measures": [ { "name": "California Proposition 1 (2024) - Behavioral Health Services Program and Bond Measure", "year": 2024, "result": "passed", "margin": "50.2% Yes - 49.8% No", "source_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/California_2024_ballot_propositions" } ], "demographic_anchors": [ { "label": "Median Household Income", "value": "$92,960", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-5-ca" }, { "label": "Population", "value": "772,813", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/tom-mcclintock-M001177/district" }, { "label": "Poverty Rate", "value": "10.1%", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-5-ca" }, { "label": "Racial/Ethnic Composition", "value": "59.2% White, 25.6% Hispanic, 6.0% Asian, 2.2% Black", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=3452496" }, { "label": "Homeownership Rate", "value": "70.7%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/tom-mcclintock-M001177/district" }, { "label": "Cook Partisan Voting Index", "value": "R+8", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=3452496" } ] } } }