Policy criticism
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Aug 13, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Commerce; Foreign Trade and International Finance; Health · Source
90%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the top tenth of the Florida House
90% of 29 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Florida House is 56%. Ranks 6th of 110, where 1st is the highest share.
The share of bills Salzman sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Florida House. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.
At a glance
6 measures against State House Republicans. 7.1% of Salzman’s statements discuss policy, in the bottom tenth of State House Republicans (average 32%). Salzman missed 11% of 817 roll calls, attendance in the bottom quarter of the Florida House (average 94.0%).
The measures on which Salzman sits furthest from the middle of State House Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Out of committee
90%
Florida House average 56% · ranks 6th of 110
Policy discussion
7.1%
State House Republicans average 32% · ranks 727th of 791
Attendance
89%
Florida House average 94.0% · ranks 100th of 116 · 817 roll calls
Itemized, 2026
$125.8K
State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 415th of 2,521
Policy criticism
2.7%
State House Republicans average 9.3% · ranks 563rd of 791
CSIP ideology
+0.32
Right of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.04
Peer group: State House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Salzman, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Salzman is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Salzman says
Salzman talks about policy less than 91% of State House Republicans. Policy discussion in 7.1% of 2,829 statements, against 32% for the average State House Republican; 727th of 791.
An AI model reads each of Salzman’s 2,829 statements in the FL 2025–26 session (2,829 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 FL 2025–26 session
0%80%
Salzman
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion202 statements
7%
32%
727th of 791
Credit claiming145 statements
5%
13%
552nd of 791
Personal attacks86 statements
3%
3%
229th of 791
Policy criticism77 statements
3%
9%
563rd of 791
Bipartisanship28 statements
1%
2%
407th of 791
Show the data
| Row | Salzman | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 7% | 32% |
| Credit claiming | 5% | 13% |
| Personal attacks | 3% | 3% |
| Policy criticism | 3% | 9% |
| Bipartisanship | 1% | 2% |
2,829
statements classified
2,829 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 2,829 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Salzman; the thin grey bar is the average State House Republicans. A longer thick bar means Salzman does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Salzman used extreme labels in 0.5% of statements, 37% of the peer average. 15 statements, most often aimed at David Jolly; peers 1.4%.
- “MAGA”5
- “extreme”3
- “far left”1
- “radical”1
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- David Jolly1
- Gwen Graham1
- MAGAVoice1
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 FL 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 114 | 1.8% | 4.4% | 6.1% | 1.8% | 7.0% | 1.8% |
| Feb ’25 | 226 | 2.6% | 8.4% | 14.6% | 2.2% | 9.3% | 0.4% |
| Mar ’25 | 294 | 3.7% | 4.8% | 11.9% | 0.0% | 8.2% | 0.7% |
| Apr ’25 | 652 | 3.8% | 3.4% | 6.1% | 1.4% | 6.8% | 1.1% |
| May ’25 | 266 | 0.4% | 1.1% | 7.9% | 0.8% | 4.5% | 0.4% |
| Jun ’25 | 134 | 3.7% | 0.0% | 4.5% | 0.0% | 2.2% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’25 | 99 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’25 | 291 | 1.7% | 1.7% | 2.8% | 1.4% | 4.1% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’25 | 169 | 4.7% | 1.2% | 3.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 0.6% |
| Oct ’25 | 21 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 4.8% | 0.0% | 9.5% | 0.0% |
| Nov ’25 | 24 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8.3% | 4.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Dec ’25 | 27 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Jan ’26 | 65 | 3.1% | 0.0% | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1.5% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’26 | 75 | 2.7% | 5.3% | 6.7% | 1.3% | 6.7% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’26 | 60 | 1.7% | 1.7% | 6.7% | 1.7% | 6.7% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’26 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’26 | 30 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.3% | 3.3% | 6.7% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’26 | 55 | 5.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.8% | 3.6% | 1.8% |
| Jul ’26 | 89 | 5.6% | 1.1% | 9.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’26 | 62 | 11.3% | 1.6% | 11.3% | 0.0% | 1.6% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’26 | 28 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 14.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’26 | 44 | 6.8% | 0.0% | 20.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
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 FL 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%. One month is hatched here.
In Salzman’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Policy discussion
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Oct 26, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; Government Operations and Politics · Source
Extreme label
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Jun 8, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · extreme label “radical” aimed at Gwen Graham, David Jolly · Source
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.
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: MXB4Freedom, GossettSeidman, OmarBlancoFLSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: xmarxthespot001Source
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacksSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: Jacob EngelsSource
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personal attacks · target: Paul RennerSource
All 2,829 statements
Newest first, the FL 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: 2,829 posts on X.
Policy
Government Operations and Politics is what Salzman talks about most: 20% of policy statements, above the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.53 on a 0–1 scale (State House Republicans average 0.53; 264th of 504).
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 Salzman talks about. The bills Salzman sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Salzman talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the FL 2025–26 session
0%35%
Salzman
Peers
Government Operations and Politics41 statements
20%
18%
Taxation32 statements
16%
8%
Health23 statements
11%
10%
Education22 statements
11%
15%
Agriculture and Food17 statements
8%
4%
Show the data
| Row | Salzman | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Government Operations and Politics | 20% | 18% |
| Taxation | 16% | 8% |
| Health | 11% | 10% |
| Education | 11% | 15% |
| Agriculture and Food | 8% | 4% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Salzman’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 35%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government Operations and Politics | 20% | 18% | 5% | 12% |
| Taxation | 16% | 8% | 4% | 11% |
| Health | 11% | 10% | 15% | 10% |
| Education | 11% | 15% | 13% | 9% |
| Agriculture and Food | 8% | 4% | 2% | 3% |
0.53
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State House Republicans average 0.53. Ranks 264th of 504.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Salzman legislates on exactly the areas Salzman 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 Salzman sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Salzman sits at +0.32 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 55% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.29 to +0.36, which understates the uncertainty; from 695 donors and 684 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”.
+0.32
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.29 to +0.36. From 695 donors and 684 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Salzman, 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 Salzman’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 Salzman sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State House Republicans2,917 · median +0.4
Florida House116 · median +0.4
All State House5,324 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Salzman |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Republicans | 2917 | +0.4 | 45% |
| Florida House | 116 | +0.4 | 40% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 69% |
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 Salzman 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 Salzman.
Money
Salzman reported $125.8K in the 2026 cycle, 3.7 times the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 95% of itemized individual money came from Florida.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
$125.8K
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 149 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
- Individuals (itemized)54 squares$67.8K
- PACs and other committees45 squares$57.0K
- Party committees1 squares$1,000
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $67.8K | 53.9% |
| PACs and other committees | $57.0K | 45.3% |
| Party committees | $1,000 | 0.8% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Receipts by cycle
Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $175.4K |
| 2022 cycle | $227.6K |
| 2024 cycle | $134.6K |
| 2026 cycle | $125.8K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 95% came from Florida.
- Florida$64.3K
- Alabama$2,375
- California$50
- Colorado$25
- Georgia$21
Small donations
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Where itemized donors live
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
Show the data
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Florida | $64.3K |
| Alabama | $2,375 |
| California | $50 |
| Colorado | $25 |
| Georgia | $21 |
| Indiana | $20 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Texas | No data |
149
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
95%
from Florida
Of itemized individual dollars
How to read the map
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Florida. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- RETIRED$15.3K 31 donors
- ATTORNEY$6,850 10 donors
- HEALTH CARE$2,500 4 donors
- HEALTH CARE EXECUTIVE$2,250 3 donors
- PHYSICIAN$1,500 3 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- FLORIDA JUSTICE PAC$2,000
- FLORIDA PODIATRY POLITICAL COMMITTEE$2,000
- FLORIDA RHEUMATOLOGY PAC$2,000
- FPF FIRE PC$2,000
- FLORIDA ARCHITECTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$1,500
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Salzman voted with the majority of Florida House Republicans on 97.6% of party-line votes and missed 11% of 817 roll calls. Florida House on average: 94.7% party unity, 94.0% attendance. Across all roll calls, Salzman voted against the majority of Florida House Republicans 4 times.
817 roll calls Salzman could vote on in the FL 2025–26 session, compared with Florida 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 Salzman voted with the majority of Florida House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
4
votes against the majority of Florida House Republicans
Party unity 97.6%, Florida House average 94.7%, ranks 67th of 116. 817 roll calls in the FL 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Salzman, the thin grey bar the Florida House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Salzman
Peers
Rank
Attendance
89%
94.0%
100th of 116
Party unity
97.6%
94.7%
67th of 116
Show the data
| Row | Salzman | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 89% | 94.0% |
| Party unity | 97.6% | 94.7% |
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 FL 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 1–26 · R 74–1Democrats 1 yea, 26 nay; Republicans 74 yea, 1 nay | became law | |
| May 12, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 24–3 · R 79–0Democrats 24 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 79 yea, 0 nay | party crossover | |
| May 12, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 19–8 · R 79–0Democrats 19 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 79 yea, 0 nay | party crossover | |
| May 12, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 14–12 · R 78–1Democrats 14 yea, 12 nay; Republicans 78 yea, 1 nay | party crossover | |
| May 12, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 25–3 · R 78–0Democrats 25 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 78 yea, 0 nay | party crossover |
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 Salzman most often
- Chuck BrannanR710 shared votes100%
- Jason ShoafR715 shared votes100%
- Kaylee TuckR707 shared votes100%
- Lawrence McClureR698 shared votes100%
- Adam AndersonR642 shared votes100%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Salzman least often
- Angie NixonD672 shared votes75%
- Michele RaynerD625 shared votes77%
- Ashley GanttD701 shared votes78%
- Dotie JosephD404 shared votes78%
- Felicia RobinsonD676 shared votes79%
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
FL 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Salzman sponsored 29 bills in the FL 2025–26 session; 3 became law. Cosponsored 142 others. 90% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Florida House average 56%; 6th of 110).
The bills Salzman sponsored and cosponsored in the FL 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 FL 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 29 | 29 | 20 | 3 | 3 |
| Cosponsored | 142 | 142 | 97 | 54 | 52 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Salzman sponsored, ochre blocks bills Salzman cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
90%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Florida House average 56%. Ranks 6th of 110.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Salzman, by number of shared bills in the FL 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Johanna López49
- Jim Mooney33
- Susan Valdés29
- Alex Rizo25
- Webster Barnaby25
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 Salzman’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HR 8069 | Childhood Cancer Awareness Month | Sponsor | Feb 17, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Adopted by Publication Feb 18, 2026 |
| HR 8063 | National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day | Sponsor | Feb 17, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Adopted by Publication Feb 18, 2026 |
| HR 8067 | Autism Awareness Month | Sponsor | Feb 17, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Adopted by Publication Feb 18, 2026 |
| HR 8065 | Epilepsy Awareness Month | Sponsor | Feb 17, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Adopted by Publication Feb 18, 2026 |
| HR 8061 | Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month | Sponsor | Feb 17, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Adopted by Publication Feb 18, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 2 times in 90 days. Salzman’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Salzman’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 Salzman posts with a vision model.
Websites
Official site
www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4763&LegislativeTermId=90Last crawled Oct 1, 2026
1pages crawled
2changes 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 Salzman posted
No images from Salzman’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
104 turns, Mar 26, 2021 to Apr 29, 2026
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 Salzman is most unusual among State House Republicans, 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. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Identifiers
- Profile id
- a3c0aa9f-c261-4904-b73b-4dc127778222
- Open States
- ocd-person/a3c0aa9f-c261-4904-b73b-4dc127778222
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.
America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab