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Ritchie Torres

Rep · D–NY-15
6/7
📚 Summer School
📚 Summer school. Ritchie Torres holds 6 of seven stars — but fails a critical Article (Free & Fair Elections). Assignment: summer school for Civics, watch every Schoolhouse Rock episode five times, and submit a one-page report — due before the end of the year. Report to summer school →

Rhetorical, not literal — an opinion on conduct measured against our civics standard. Ratings terms · Challenge this review

1Open Bookscritical
73%★ earned
“…the property of the people.” — Cicero, De Re Publica
10.1% of receipts from PACs — clean under the 15% cap, and no corporate leadership PAC. (FEC 2026)
60
2Free & Fair Electionscritical
42%☆ not yet
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln
Argued Democrats must counter Texas with their own mid-decade redraw (NPR, Jul 2025). Backing a partisan gerrymander fails Free & Fair Elections.
60
3The Dignity of the Opponent
66%★ earned
“Treat humanity … always as an end and never as a means only.” — Kant
Frequently spars with the progressive wing but keeps criticism issue-focused; generally respectful toward opponents.
60
4Fear Is Not Fuel
66%★ earned
“…the better angels of our nature.” — Lincoln, First Inaugural
Advances an affirmative housing, poverty, and pro-Israel agenda; combative but not primarily fear-driven.
60
5Truth & a Kept Word
68%★ earned
“…living within the truth.” A representative owes “his judgment.” — Havel · Burke
No significant fact-check controversies documented; positions broadly consistent with stated commitments.
60
6Against the Spirit of Party
62%★ earned
“The baneful effects of the spirit of party.” — Washington, Farewell Address
Notable intra-party independence, publicly breaking with progressive/DSA wing at real political cost.
60
7Morality
75%★ earned
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
No documented personal-ethics, corruption, or scandal matters on record; default absent any citable issue.
60

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Scores are Independent 2026’s own editorial read against the Seven Articles — ≥60% earns the star. The first two Articles are critical: fail Open Books or Free & Fair Elections and there is no seal, whatever else holds. Each Article carries its founding quote as the yardstick. On bias →

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