Policy discussion
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Feb 7, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Health · Source
7
statements classified
7 posts on X in the MS 2025–26 session. No measure in the MS 2025–26 session stands far from the peer average.
Every post, press release, newsletter and floor speech the lab collected and ran through its classifier.
At a glance
4 measures against the Mississippi House. McLean sits at +0.25 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 68% of State House Republicans. 18% of the 50 bills McLean sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom half of the Mississippi House. McLean missed 2.6% of 1,511 roll calls, attendance in the bottom half of the Mississippi House (average 95.7%).
The measures on which McLean sits furthest from the middle of the Mississippi House, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
CSIP ideology
+0.25
More liberal than 68% of State House Republicans · ± 0.06
Out of committee
18%
Mississippi House average 29% · ranks 57th of 99
Attendance
97.4%
Mississippi House average 95.7% · ranks 60th of 112 · 1,511 roll calls
Party unity
97.1%
Mississippi House average 90.1% · ranks 52nd of 112 · 11 votes against the majority of Mississippi House Republicans
Statements
7
7 posts on X
Roll calls
1,511
Compared with Mississippi House
Peer group: Mississippi House. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is McLean, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which McLean is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What McLean says
McLean criticizes policies less than 92% of State House Republicans. Policy criticism in 0% of 7 statements, against 9.3% for the average State House Republican; 736th of 792.
An AI model reads each of McLean’s 7 statements in the MS 2025–26 session (7 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State House Republicans and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the MS 2025–26 session
0%80%
McLean
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion1 statements
14%
32%
649th of 792
Credit claiming1 statements
14%
13%
300th of 792
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
3%
643rd of 792
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
9%
736th of 792
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
2%
678th of 792
Show the data
| Row | McLean | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 14% | 32% |
| Credit claiming | 14% | 13% |
| Personal attacks | 0% | 3% |
| Policy criticism | 0% | 9% |
| Bipartisanship | 0% | 2% |
7
statements classified
7 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 7 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is McLean; the thin grey bar is the average State House Republicans. A longer thick bar means McLean does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
McLean used no extreme labels in 7 statements. The peer average is 1.4%.
No extreme labels in this window.
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
No targets recorded.
What an extreme label is
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Month by month
Share of statements per month, the MS 2025–26 session
No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.
How to read the strips
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the MS 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 22 months are hatched here; 17 of them have no statements.
In McLean’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
No statements in this category in this window.
All 7 statements
Newest first, the MS 2025–26 session
The full feed
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 7 posts on X.
Policy
Health is what McLean talks about most: 100% of policy statements, 9.7 times the peer share. Peers give it 10%. Agreement with legislation needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what McLean talks about. The bills McLean sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What McLean talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the MS 2025–26 session
0%100%
McLean
Peers
Health1 statements
100%
10%
Agriculture and Food0 statements
0%
4%
Armed Forces and National Security0 statements
0%
5%
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues0 statements
0%
6%
Commerce0 statements
0%
4%
Show the data
| Row | McLean | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 100% | 10% |
| Agriculture and Food | 0% | 4% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 0% | 5% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 0% | 6% |
| Commerce | 0% | 4% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of McLean’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Talks about · legislates on
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 100%. Grey ticks are the State House Republicans averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State House Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State House Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 100% | 10% | 24% | 10% |
| Agriculture and Food | 0% | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 0% | 5% | 1% | 2% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 0% | 6% | 3% | 4% |
| Crime and Law Enforcement | 0% | 11% | 31% | 11% |
No agreement score.Needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills in the window.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means McLean legislates on exactly the areas McLean talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills McLean sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
McLean sits at +0.25 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 68% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.19 to +0.30, which understates the uncertainty; from 0 donors and 1,028 roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
+0.25
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.19 to +0.30. From 0 donors and 1,028 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is McLean, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of McLean’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Where McLean sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State House Republicans2,917 · median +0.4
Mississippi House117 · median +0.2
All State House5,324 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of McLean |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Republicans | 2917 | +0.4 | 32% |
| Mississippi House | 117 | +0.2 | 49% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 62% |
How to read the strips
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is McLean in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of McLean.
Money
No campaign-finance data.No campaign-finance records are matched to this official.
Votes
McLean voted with the majority of Mississippi House Republicans on 97.1% of party-line votes and missed 2.6% of 1,511 roll calls. Mississippi House on average: 90.1% party unity, 95.7% attendance. Across all roll calls, McLean voted against the majority of Mississippi House Republicans 11 times.
1,511 roll calls McLean could vote on in the MS 2025–26 session, compared with Mississippi House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where McLean voted with the majority of Mississippi House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
11
votes against the majority of Mississippi House Republicans
Party unity 97.1%, Mississippi House average 90.1%, ranks 52nd of 112. 1,511 roll calls in the MS 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is McLean, the thin grey bar the Mississippi House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
McLean
Peers
Rank
Attendance
97.4%
95.7%
60th of 112
Party unity
97.1%
90.1%
52nd of 112
Show the data
| Row | McLean | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 97.4% | 95.7% |
| Party unity | 97.1% | 90.1% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.
Key votes
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the MS 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 3–25 · R 63–6 · I 2–0Democrats 3 yea, 25 nay; Republicans 63 yea, 6 nay; Independents 2 yea, 0 nay | became law · party crossover | |
| Apr 15, 2026 | HC 65 Suspend deadlines for the further consideration of HB 938; extend repealers on several youth court statutes. Passage | Yea | With majority | pass | D 19–8 · R 75–2 · I 1–0Democrats 19 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 75 yea, 2 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | party crossover |
| Apr 2, 2026 | HB 1761 Alcoholic beverages; extend repealers relating to festival wine permits. Adopt Conference Report | Yea | With majority | pass | D 35–2 · R 75–1 · I 2–0Democrats 35 yea, 2 nay; Republicans 75 yea, 1 nay; Independents 2 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 39–0 · R 76–0 · I 2–0Democrats 39 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 76 yea, 0 nay; Independents 2 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Apr 2, 2026 | SB 3410 City of Brandon and West Rankin Utility Authority; authorize to enter agreements w/data center for water & wastewater infrastructure. Passage | Yea | With majority | pass | D 36–0 · R 72–0 · I 2–0Democrats 36 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 72 yea, 0 nay; Independents 2 yea, 0 nay | became law |
How key votes are chosen
Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.
Votes most often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as McLean most often
- Steve LottR1,465 shared votes99%
- Mark TullosR1,429 shared votes99%
- Beth WaldoR1,366 shared votes99%
- Randy RushingR1,439 shared votes99%
- Celeste HurstR1,329 shared votes99%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as McLean least often
- Omeria ScottD1,324 shared votes81%
- Zakiya SummersD1,163 shared votes86%
- Solomon OsborneD1,390 shared votes87%
- Bob EvansD1,234 shared votes88%
- Kabir KarriemD1,299 shared votes89%
How to read the agreement lists
The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.
Full voting record
MS 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
McLean sponsored 50 bills in the MS 2025–26 session; 2 became law. Cosponsored 54 others. 18% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Mississippi House average 29%; 57th of 99).
The bills McLean sponsored and cosponsored in the MS 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Bills by stage
Counts for the MS 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 50 | 50 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| Cosponsored | 54 | 54 | 27 | 13 | 9 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills McLean sponsored, ochre blocks bills McLean cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
18%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Mississippi House average 29%. Ranks 57th of 99.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with McLean, by number of shared bills in the MS 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Otis Anthony11
- Beth Waldo8
- Fabian Nelson8
- Jansen Owen8
- Jeff Hale8
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of McLean’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HB 4134 | Lowndes County; authorize to establish an Industrial Zone Emergency Response District. | Cosponsor | Mar 24, 2026 | Became law | Emergency Management(model) | Approved by Governor Apr 6, 2026 |
| HR 99 | Nora Roberts Miller; commend for service to the state as President of Mississippi University for Women. | Sponsor | Mar 11, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Enrolled Bill Signed Mar 12, 2026 |
| HB 420 | Homestead exemption; increase for honorably discharged veterans age 85 or older and unremarried surviving spouses of such persons. | Cosponsor | Feb 26, 2026 | Became law | Taxation(model) | Approved by Governor Mar 20, 2026 |
| HC 50 | Beth Israel Congregation; condemn arson attack upon. | Sponsor | Feb 25, 2026 | In committee | Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues(model) | Died In Committee Apr 15, 2026 |
| HR 76 | Beth Israel Congregation; condemn arson attack upon. | Sponsor | Feb 25, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Enrolled Bill Signed Mar 19, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. McLean’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls McLean’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images McLean posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
How to read the counts
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
Social accounts
Images McLean posted
No images from McLean’s posts have been described.
About the descriptions
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
State floor speeches
No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.
Floor speeches
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
Methods and sources
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline
The headline is the measure on which McLean is most unusual among Mississippi House, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. That is the case for McLean in this window. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Identifiers
- Profile id
- 22afa0b0-e76a-4ac0-af9a-fa158c55daea
- Open States
- ocd-person/22afa0b0-e76a-4ac0-af9a-fa158c55daea
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
Freshness of this profile’s data
- What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
- Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
- Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
- Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
- Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
- WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
- State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.
How the measures work
- What politicians say
- Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
- Extreme labels
- A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
- Policy areas and agreement
- Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
- Ideology (CSIP)
- Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
- Campaign money
- Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
- Votes and key votes
- Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
- Peers and ranks
- Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.
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