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John James
Serving in office
Scheduled research active
Main board
Too little promise evidence has been reviewed. Treat this score as provisional.
This profile keeps a lifetime office and promise record. The trust score is designed to stay close to 50 until enough claims and evidence are reviewed.
Breakdown
- Delivered during the term promised: 0 x 1.0
- Delivered in a later elected term: 0 x 0.8
- Partial delivery: 1 x 0.4
- Never delivered: 6 x 0.0
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 7
- Confidence: 37%
- Current claim count: 45
- Current evidence count: 90
Office History
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U.S. Representative
Michigan 10th · current
Federal elected office held. Serving in the U.S. House for Michigan's 10th Congressional District; Congress.gov lists James in the 118th-119th Congresses. -
U.S. Representative
Michigan 10th · current
Historical elected offices still need research. -
Candidate for U.S. Representative
Michigan 10th
Federal reelection campaign sought and won. James won a second House term in the November 5, 2024 general election. -
Candidate for U.S. Representative
Michigan 10th
Federal campaign sought and won. This election led to his first term in the U.S. House beginning in 2023. -
Candidate for U.S. Senator
Michigan
Federal campaign sought. James was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan in 2020 and lost the general election to incumbent Gary Peters. -
Candidate for U.S. Senator
Michigan
Federal campaign sought. James won the 2018 Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan and lost the 2018 general election to incumbent Debbie Stabenow.
- Publicly disclose his personal finances as governor and require the same disclosure standard for senior executive-branch appointees, while urging the legislature and judiciary to adopt it.
- Support legislation to open governor's office, executive branch, and legislative records to public scrutiny by ending FOIA exemptions.
- Require ethics clauses in every employment agreement in his administration.
- Conduct a comprehensive audit of the past ten years of state expenditures to root out fraud, waste, and abuse.
- Investigate the $8 billion unemployment fraud scandal and demand preservation of all related records.
- Fully fund the state auditor general's office.
- Strengthen whistleblower protections for state employees, including confidentiality protections and rewards for reporting waste, fraud, and abuse.
- Conduct an independent audit of Michigan's voter rolls to remove non-citizens from voting and jury duty.
- Investigate ghost employees.
- Investigate the $9 million contract for Jocelyn Benson's campaign finance and lobbying disclosure website.
- Ban fundraising by state officials during legislative session and prohibit solicitation or receipt of campaign contributions while the legislature is in session.
- Ban taxpayer-funded lobbying expenditures by public entities.
- Limit legislative earmarks to periods when there is a budget surplus and require 90 days' advance disclosure before a vote.
- Ban state legislators and statewide elected officials from becoming lobbyists for four years after leaving office.
- Ban state elected officials, their staff members, and their immediate family from lobbying any entity with interests before state government.
- Close loopholes in the gift ban for Michigan legislators and staff.
- Prohibit elected officials from directing public grants to organizations tied to personal or romantic relationships and from destroying or concealing public records to evade oversight.
- Increase criminal penalties for using government employees or resources for political purposes.
- Impose mandatory ethics training for all state government staff.
- Prohibit Michigan public officials from signing nondisclosure agreements in their official capacity with private entities.
- Establish an independent commission to audit COVID-era enforcement actions and publish a public accountability report.
- Create a public submission portal for reporting COVID enforcement experiences and requests for review.
- Automatically clear qualifying low-level COVID citations and refund or cancel fines for good-faith violators.
- Offer clemency and record-clearing for unresolved COVID enforcement actions.
- Require legislative approval to extend emergency orders beyond 14 days and add sunset clauses to emergency powers.
- Prohibit penalties without clear legal standards, guaranteed appeal rights, and legislative oversight.
- Establish clear, consistent enforcement guidelines to prevent politically motivated or selective crackdowns.
- Enshrine in law that Michiganders retain the same constitutional rights during emergencies as at other times.
- Create a CLEAR restitution fund to support people and small businesses harmed by shutdowns, unjust penalties, or lost licenses.
- Reform MDHHS influence over county health departments.
- Ensure parents have the right to direct their children's education and access curricula, materials, and lesson plans in advance.
- Require parent opt-in for surveys, health screenings, and instruction on controversial subjects, and prohibit schools from withholding child health information from parents.
- Protect parents advocating at school board meetings and public forums with free-speech rights.
- Require parents' informed consent for minors' physical or mental health treatment, except in cases of imminent threat to life, limb, or eyesight.
- Eliminate Michigan's state income tax.
- Eliminate wasteful DEI and ESG programs in state government.
- Oppose the vehicle "kill switch" mandate and support legislation to repeal it.
- Request and secure federal appropriations to prepare Selfridge Air National Guard Base for a new fighter mission.
- Work to lock in the new fighter mission and secure the future of Selfridge Air National Guard Base for generations.
- Vote to strip legal protection from companies that make pesticides and return accountability to consumers.
- Vote to ban foreign governments such as China from buying American farmland.
- Direct the Department of Energy to assess vulnerabilities in critical energy resource supply chains, including critical minerals and rare earth elements, and develop strategies to address disruptions and over-reliance on adversarial nations.
- Support creating a $300 tax credit to incentivize parents or guardians to purchase a gun safe or firearm storage item.
- Support requiring the President to include a plan for securing America's schools in the National Security Strategy.
- Support grants for health care providers to purchase lockboxes or safes to help families of children at risk of suicide or overdose store medications or other dangerous items.
Method note
Long term, this app should score against a manually reviewed promise ledger that spans every elected office the candidate has held. The current model uses a Bayesian-style shrinkage step: thin records are pulled back toward 50 so the UI does not overstate certainty.
Claim occurrences, evidence, and future AI adjudications are all designed to store provider and model provenance. Formula version: 0.1.0.