Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-05-02T02:17:20.921Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #74274)
Resolved official: Jay Obernolte (entity #10982)
Ingest result: 25 facts · 23 sources · 1 contradictions · 4 voting_records · 8 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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PAC contributions comprised 65.69% of total fundraising ($985,224), with large individual contributions at 33.88% and small individual contributions at 0.42%.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00045377" }, { "fact_text": "Top contributors for 2023-2024 include Google Inc ($37,700), Mehlman Consulting ($14,850), Innovative Federal Strategies ($14,400), Apple Valley Communications ($13,200), and Chandi Group USA ($13,200).", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00045377&cycle=2024" }, { "fact_text": "Top contributing sectors: Communic/Electronics ($207,050), Health ($175,950), Finance/Insur/RealEst ($123,428), Energy/Nat Resource ($109,735), Misc Business ($109,183), Lawyers & Lobbyists ($106,200).", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/151831/jay-obernolte" }, { "fact_text": "Debts carried by campaign committee total $1,125,000 as of December 31, 2024.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00045377" }, { "fact_text": "Obernolte is the founder and owner of FarSight Studios, a video game development company, and holds a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence from UCLA.", "date_occurred": "2026-05-01", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91117132/jay-obernolte-interview-house-ai-task-force" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "Google Inc", "relationship_type": "donor", "description": "2024: $37,700 via individual and PAC contributions ($31,700 individuals, $6,000 PAC)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00045377" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Comcast Corp", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00045377&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Chevron Corp", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00045377&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Koch Inc", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00045377&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Consumer Technology Assn", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00045377&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "National Assn of Broadcasters", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00045377&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Charter Communications", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00045377&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Bank of America", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00045377&cycle=2024" } ] }, "silences": { "no_data": true, "reason": "No falsifiable silence with the required active-on-adjacent evidence URL identified within the specified parameters for this official." }, "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Obernolte presents himself as a fiscal conservative, stating he supported the Fiscal Responsibility Act because it 'enacts the largest reduction in nondefense discretionary spending in the history of our country' and touted his support for a $9 billion rescissions package as 'a meaningful step towards reining in reckless federal spending and restoring fiscal sanity.'", "claim_date": "2023-05-31", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://obernolte.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-obernolte-releases-statement-debt-ceiling-vote" }, { "claim_text": "Obernolte voted for H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the Congressional Budget Office warned would 'increase deficits over the 2025-2034 period by $3.4 trillion,' a vote that an editorial board described as contradictory to his fiscal conservative image.", "claim_date": "2025-07-03", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2025/07/26/rep-obernolte-voted-to-add-trillions-to-the-national-debt-now-hes-bragging-about-cutting-9-billion/" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "statement_vs_disclosure", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Obernolte has repeatedly touted fiscal conservatism and deficit reduction as core principles, yet voted for H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) which the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to deficits over a decade, contradicting his public stance on fiscal discipline." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.J.Res. 11", "title": "Objection to Arizona Electoral College Results — Joint Session of Congress Certification of 2020 Presidential Election", "vote": "yea_unverified", "vote_date": "2021-01-06", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-joint-resolution/11", "why_it_matters": "Obernolte voted to sustain the objection to Arizona's electoral results and also objected to Pennsylvania's results. His district (then CA-08) was won by Biden, and the objection came hours after the Capitol riot. This vote placed him at odds with the will of constituents who voted for the certified winner.", "category": "against_constituent" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 8035", "title": "Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024", "vote": "nay_unverified", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8035", "why_it_matters": "Obernolte voted in favor of Ukraine aid in 2022 (Lend-Lease Act and 2022 Ukraine Supplemental) and 2023 (H.R. 5692), but reversed to oppose the 2024 supplemental. This shift aligns with the growing isolationist wing of the GOP, while his earlier support reflected the post-invasion bipartisan consensus. The reversal marks a significant evolution in his foreign policy stance.", "category": "reversal" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (House passage of Senate amendment)", "vote": "yea_unverified", "vote_date": "2025-07-03", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1", "why_it_matters": "Obernolte voted for H.R. 1 despite projecting a fiscally conservative identity, creating cross-pressure between party loyalty and his public brand. The CBO projected the bill would add $3.4 trillion to deficits. Constituents in his district, where the median household income is $74,939, could face reduced social safety-net programs including Medicaid cuts.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 4346", "title": "CHIPS and Science Act", "vote": "nay_unverified", "vote_date": "2022-07-28", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4346", "why_it_matters": "As a tech entrepreneur with a master's in AI and owner of a software company, Obernolte voted against $52.7 billion for semiconductor R&D and manufacturing. 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