Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-05-02T02:21:59.660Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #74278)
Resolved official: Jeff Hurd (entity #11112)
Ingest result: 28 facts · 27 sources · 2 contradictions · 5 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.
{ "target_official": { "name": "Jeff Hurd", "bioguide_id": "H001100" }, "donor_mapping": { "facts": [ { "fact_text": "2023-2024 cycle: Raised $2,740,820. Large individual contributions comprised 77.85% ($2,133,629), PAC contributions 17.75% ($486,400), and small individual contributions only 3.83% ($105,015).", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/races/candidates?cycle=2024&id=CO03&spec=N" }, { "fact_text": "Top contributing industries/sectors for the 2024 cycle include Lawyers & Lobbyists, Energy & Natural Resources, Health, and Finance/Insurance/Real Estate, according to FEC itemized contribution records.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/races/candidates?cycle=2024&id=CO03&spec=N" }, { "fact_text": "Hurd's campaign committee reported $1,203,965 in total contributions through June 30, 2024, according to its July quarterly FEC filing.", "date_occurred": "2024-06-30", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00848333/1802525/" }, { "fact_text": "Hurd is a former energy attorney at an oil and gas law firm. He left the firm to run for Congress in 2024 and has made energy dominance a central campaign theme.", "date_occurred": "2024-11-05", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/hurd-act-leads-in-destroying-public-lands-collaboration/" }, { "fact_text": "Hurd participated in an AIPAC-sponsored trip to Israel along with 19 other House Republicans during the congressional recess.", "date_occurred": "2025-08-01", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://web3.okx.com/sv/discover/post/51707371044992" }, { "fact_text": "Top career PAC donors include Koch Inc ($10,000), National Cattlemen's Beef Assn ($10,000), Chevron Corp ($10,000), and Republican Main Street Partnership ($15,000).", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/campaign-expenditures/vendor?vendor=Jeff+Hurd+for+Congress&year=2024" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "Koch Inc", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC (KochPAC)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/campaign-expenditures/vendor?vendor=Jeff+Hurd+for+Congress&year=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Chevron Corp", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/campaign-expenditures/vendor?vendor=Jeff+Hurd+for+Congress&year=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "National Cattlemen's Beef Assn", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/campaign-expenditures/vendor?vendor=Jeff+Hurd+for+Congress&year=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Republican Main Street Partnership", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $15,000 via PAC contributions", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/campaign-expenditures/vendor?vendor=Jeff+Hurd+for+Congress&year=2024" } ] }, "silences": { "no_data": true, "reason": "No falsifiable silence with the required active-on-adjacent evidence URL could be identified within the specified parameters for this official." }, "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Hurd signed a letter to House GOP leadership in April 2025 stating 'we cannot and will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.'", "claim_date": "2025-04-14", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/16/jeff-hurd-joins-letter-against-medicaid-cuts/" }, { "claim_text": "Hurd voted for H.R. 1 (the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act') in July 2025, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will trim $1 trillion from Medicaid and add more than $3 trillion to the national debt. He acknowledged the bill was 'not perfect' but said the positives won out.", "claim_date": "2025-07-03", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://www.cpr.org/2025/07/10/interview-jeff-hurd-big-beautiful-bill/" }, { "claim_text": "Hurd joined 21 House Republicans in a March 2025 letter asking the House Ways and Means Committee chair to protect clean energy tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act, credits that encourage private sector investment and jobs in his district.", "claim_date": "2025-03-23", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/opinion-rep-hurd-leading-on-protecting-tax-credits/" }, { "claim_text": "Hurd voted in May 2025 for the House budget reconciliation bill that eliminates billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits, including IRA credits that co-ops like San Miguel Power Association relied on for solar microgrids, battery backup, and energy efficiency projects in his district.", "claim_date": "2025-05-22", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://koto.org/news/hurd-budget-vote-energy-cuts/" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "statement_vs_disclosure", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Hurd publicly pledged in April 2025 not to support any reconciliation bill with Medicaid coverage reductions, then voted in July 2025 for H.R. 1 which the CBO projects cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid. Hurd defended his vote by saying only 4% of Medicaid recipients in his district would lose coverage and that able-bodied adults should contribute, directly contradicting his earlier red line against any reduction in coverage for vulnerable populations." }, { "claim_a_idx": 2, "claim_b_idx": 3, "type": "statement_vs_disclosure", "severity": "medium", "narrative": "Hurd publicly supported protecting clean energy tax credits in March 2025, but two months later voted for a budget that eliminates those same credits, impacting rural electric co-ops and solar installers across his district." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.J.Res. 40", "title": "Resolution of Disapproval of Canada Tariffs under IEEPA", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2026-02-11", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/40", "why_it_matters": "Hurd was one of only 6 House Republicans to vote with Democrats to overturn Trump's 25% tariff on Canada, citing harm to farmers and manufacturers in his district. Trump withdrew his endorsement 10 days later, calling Hurd a 'RINO.' The vote illustrates cross-pressure: his district's agricultural and steel exporters opposed tariffs, while the president and GOP leadership demanded loyalty. Trump later re-endorsed Hurd after the primary challenger was persuaded to drop out.", "category": "constituent_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act", "vote": "yea_unverified", "vote_date": "2025-07-03", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1", "why_it_matters": "Hurd voted for a bill that CBO projects adds $3+ trillion to the deficit and cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid, despite having pledged just months earlier not to support any Medicaid coverage reductions. His district has the highest Medicaid enrollment of any Colorado congressional district at 31%. The vote illustrates cross-pressure: party leadership and donor interests (extending 2017 tax cuts, oil/gas/coal lease provisions) versus constituent reliance on Medicaid and SNAP.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 29", "title": "Laken Riley Act", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-01-07", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/29", "why_it_matters": "Hurd joined all Republicans and 46 Democrats in passing this bill requiring mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants accused of certain crimes. While aligned with his hardline campaign stance on immigration, the bill was criticized by civil liberties groups. The vote is consistent with his party's position and campaign platform, but notable as one of his earliest votes that defined his immigration posture.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act — Public Lands Amendment (midnight provision)", "vote": "nay_unverified", "vote_date": "2025-06-24", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1", "why_it_matters": "Hurd was the only Republican to vote against a last-minute amendment to the budget reconciliation bill that would have mandated the sale of public lands. He worked with Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse to strip the provision, stating 'public lands are not for sale' and that no one in his district asked for the land sale. This was a rare defection from party leadership that aligned with constituent sentiment: 72% of Westerners prefer conservation over energy development on public lands.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 1997", "title": "Productive Public Lands Act", "vote": "sponsored_unverified", "vote_date": "2025-03-10", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1997", "why_it_matters": "Hurd introduced this bill to revoke nine Biden-era BLM Resource Management Plans and reopen federal lands to expanded drilling, mining, and timber harvesting. This directly benefits top energy-sector donors like Koch Inc, Chevron, and Western Energy Alliance, while environmental groups argue it undermines years of local stakeholder collaboration and contradicts Western voters' preference for conservation. The bill illustrates the tension between his public lands protection rhetoric and his energy dominance agenda.", "category": "donor_aligned" } ], "constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "Colorado's 3rd Congressional District spans the entire Western Slope and southern Colorado, covering rural, agricultural, and mountain communities from Moffat County in the northwest to Montezuma County in the southwest and extending east to Otero and Las Animas counties. With approximately 729,000 residents, the district has a median household income of $70,890 and a homeownership rate of 71.1%. The population is 76.4% White (non-Hispanic) and 26% Hispanic. Key economic drivers include energy production (oil, gas, coal), agriculture and ranching, outdoor recreation and tourism, healthcare, and timber. The district contains six national forests, extensive BLM lands, and is home to vital water resources like the Colorado River headwaters. It is considered a competitive seat with a Republican lean (R+5), and Hurd won the 2024 election by just over 6,000 votes (50.8%).", "top_employers": [ { "name": "Intermountain Health (formerly SCL Health)", "employees": 3000, "source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/colorado.htm" }, { "name": "Bureau of Land Management (Western Colorado offices)", "employees": 1500, "source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/colorado.htm" }, { "name": "U.S. Forest Service (Region 2)", "employees": 2000, "source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/colorado.htm" } ], "dominant_industries": [ { "naics": "62", "share": 0.16, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-co" }, { "naics": "44-45", "share": 0.12, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-co" }, { "naics": "11", "share": 0.08, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-co" } ], "recent_ballot_measures": [ { "name": "Amendment 79 — Enshrine Abortion Access in Colorado Constitution", "year": 2024, "result": "passed", "margin": "61.7%-38.3%", "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Results/" } ], "demographic_anchors": [ { "label": "median household income", "value": "$70,890", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-co" }, { "label": "poverty rate", "value": "12.4%", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-co" }, { "label": "homeownership rate", "value": "71.1%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/jeff-hurd-H001100/district" }, { "label": "Medicaid enrollment rate", "value": "31%", "source_url": "https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/16/jeff-hurd-joins-letter-against-medicaid-cuts/" }, { "label": "Hispanic population share", "value": "26%", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-co" } ] } } }