Get big money out of politics.

Paul Tonko · New York · Democratic

oversight impact 3.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 97%

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Occurrences

Getting big money out of politics

Commits to campaign finance or political influence reform.

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campaign · campaign_site · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

The email archive’s most recent entries are dated May 16, 2026 and May 9, 2026, with subjects centered on the cost of living, community funding, the Voting Rights Act, public health, clean energy, and defending democracy; it does not show any new big-money-in-politics or campaign-finance action in the May 20-22 lookback window.

Recent official messaging did not show a new campaign-finance or anti-big-money action during the lookback window, so the promise remains unresolved rather than delivered.

unresolved unknown

Email Archive | U.S. Representative Paul Tonko
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 72%

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The latest visible roll calls on Tonko’s official vote record are May 12, 2026 and April 30, 2026, and the listed measures are unrelated to campaign finance or structural democracy reform.

Tonko’s recent recorded floor activity does not show passage of any big-money-out-of-politics measure in the lookback window, reinforcing an unresolved status.

unresolved unknown

Vote Record | U.S. Representative Paul Tonko
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 67%

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Assessments

never unknown A for effort

The promised federal outcome, getting big money out of politics, has not been delivered: no major federal campaign-finance reform, public financing system, DISCLOSE-style transparency law, or constitutional change reversing the current big-money framework has been enacted. The provided 2026 evidence also shows no recent Tonko action or passed measure in the lookback window. However, in federal office Tonko has supported democracy and campaign-finance reform efforts, so this qualifies as a failed serious effort rather than no effort.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 78%