And whether they deliver on them is rarely measured.
Democratic accountability depends on the public being able to judge officials by what they accomplish in office. PolicyLogic tracks and assesses how effectively elected officials and government agencies deliver on their stated goals and commitments, applying the same published methodology, regardless of party.
Across eight tracked commitments, they delivered four in full, made partial progress on two, and made no progress on one. A court blocked the eighth.
We find every commitment an official made in public, in a campaign or in office, and we track each one against the record. A commitment only counts if it names something we can actually check.
The percentage above is the average across all of them. Something half-finished counts half. It is not the share he finished, and every commitment counts the same whether it was easy or hard.
If something was stopped by a court or an event outside his control, we leave it out entirely rather than count it against him. We say so when that happens.
This official secured funding for three infrastructure commitments and delivered two policy changes in full. One long-term commitment stalled against a legislature that declined to fund it, and one stated opposition was overridden.
"We will invest $300 million in state broadband funds."
The money was allocated in year one and matched by federal funds, exceeding the target. Deployment is running statewide.
How we knowState appropriation record and the federal matching award, both government documents.
Sources: State appropriation record, Office of the Governor, broadband deployment office.
"Every resident deserves clean drinking water."
Funded in full in year one. Grants went to every county, and projects are complete or under construction.
How we knowThe enacted budget and the state program's own grant awards by county.
Sources: Clean water program grant records, year one session law.
"I will legalize medical marijuana in this state."
Executive order in year one, signed into law in year two, licensing opened in year four.
How we knowThe signed bill text and the executive order, plus the licensing board's public record.
Sources: Senate Bill 00 as enacted, Executive Order 00-000.
"I will restore voting rights to people who have completed their sentences."
Signed by executive order in their first week. More than 175,000 people had their rights restored.
How we knowThe executive order itself and voter registration data from the Secretary of State.
Sources: Executive Order 00-000, Secretary of State registration data.
"We will finish the Highway expansion project."
Most sections are open to traffic. The final stretch is still under construction.
How we knowState transportation agency project records. They confirm the sections that opened but do not publish a completion date, so this one is marked as thinner evidence.
Sources: Transportation Cabinet project record. We could not find a published completion date.
"We will provide universal pre-K for every four-year-old in this state."
They proposed funding in three budgets and the legislature declined each time. They opened a pilot in two counties instead. There is no statewide program.
How we knowThree executive budget submissions, the enacted budgets that left them out, and the pilot program announcement.
Sources: Executive budget submissions across three years, pilot program announcement.
"I do not support tolling the new crossing."
They said so publicly more than once. The legislature authorized tolls in year three and the authorization stands.
How we knowThe session law authorizing the tolls, and press records of their stated opposition.
Sources: Session law, press conference transcripts.
"We will enact paid family leave for workers in this state."
They established it in year three. A court blocked it in year four before it took effect. We do not count this for or against them.
How we knowThe court order and the record of the executive action it stopped.
Sources: Court order, executive action record.
This official faced an opposing majority in the legislature for the whole term, which is why several commitments needed federal money or executive action to move. They had direct authority over some of this and none over the rest.
| Commitment | Type · clarity | C · R · D · I | Weight · delivered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadband, $300M matched c1 · c2 | Quant · Cl-5 | 1.00 · R3 · D2 · I5 | 10 · 7.50 |
| Water and wastewater, $500M c3 | Quant · Cl-5 | 1.00 · R3 · D2 · I5 | 10 · 7.50 |
| Medical marijuana legalization c4 · c5 | Qual · Cl-3 | C4 · R4 · D2 · I4 | 8 · 8.00 |
| Voting rights restoration c6 · c7 | Qual · Cl-3 | C4 · R4 · D1 · I4 | 4 · 4.00 |
| Highway expansion project c8 | Qual · Cl-3 | C3 · R3 · D2 · I3 | 6 · 3.38 |
| Universal pre-K c9 | Qual · Cl-4 | C1 · R4 · D3 · I5 | 15 · 3.75 |
| No tolls on new river crossing c10 · c12 | Neg · Cl-3 | C0 · R1 · D2 · I3 | 6 · 0.00 |
| Paid family leave c11 | Qual · Cl-4 | — | — |
| Totals7 in control · 1 excluded | Fulfillment 0.71 | 59 · 34.13 |
| CID | Source | Tier · access |
|---|---|---|
| c1 | State enacted budget, year one, broadband appropriationlegislature.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · API |
| c2 | Federal Capital Projects Fund award to the statetreasury.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · API |
| c3 | State clean water program, grant awards by countywater.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · crawled |
| c4 | SB 00, enacted text and signature datelegislature.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · API |
| c5 | Executive Order 00-000, medical cannabisgovernor.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · crawled |
| c6 | Executive Order 00-000, restoration of voting rightsgovernor.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · crawled |
| c7 | Secretary of State, voter registration totals by yearelections.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · API |
| c8 | State transportation agency, highway project statustransport.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · crawled |
| c9 | Executive budget submissions, three consecutive yearsbudget.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · crawled |
| c10 | HB 00, river crossing tolling authorizationlegislature.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · API |
| c11 | State circuit court, order enjoining the paid leave programcourts.state.gov · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Primary · manual |
| c12 | Wire service coverage of the tolling vote and the objectionwire-service.example · retrieved 00 Mon 0000 | Authoritative |
Every completion at C3 or above cites a primary source, as does every action counted under Role. Impact reach figures come from Census data, agency enrollment records, and the administering body in each case. The highway commitment carries Limited Evidence: the project record documents section openings but not a completion schedule. Effectiveness is withheld until the term closes; the delivered-weight column is published so a reader can recompute it. Twelve sources support these codings, eleven primary and one authoritative. The authoritative source corroborates a stated position and supports no completion value on its own.
PolicyLogic is an independent, nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks the public commitments and agendas of elected officials and government agencies. The record of what they actually accomplish is publicly available, but dispersed across many sources and difficult to compile and review.
Each commitment is analyzed against its documented outcome, and the result is published with every source referenced. Officials and institutions are assessed only against commitments they themselves stated. The methodology behind the analysis is published as well, along with any contested results and whether those challenges led to changes in an assessment.
Anna Andersen Rolsma is the Founder and Executive Director of PolicyLogic and President of its Board of Directors. She has spent over a decade in emerging-technology programs spanning the federal government, venture development, and international markets. At FedTech she led federal technology commercialization programs, including Army xTech and SBIR accelerator cohorts for companies in national security, cybersecurity, and AI. At Good Machine Studio, a Schmidt Futures–backed venture studio, she led growth for mission-driven startups solving social and environmental problems. She continues to advise early-stage ventures and government-funded technology programs in the United States and Europe. She holds a Master of International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), with a focus on emerging technology, and a certificate in AI Governance from BlueDot Impact.
That work showed her how often program goals fail to become delivered policy results, and that no consistent record exists of what officials and agencies actually accomplish. She designed PolicyLogic’s methodology and built its analytical pipeline to close that gap. Each commitment is documented from statement to outcome and published with its sources, so every assessment can be tracked, validated, or challenged.
LinkedInGeoff Odlum is a global security consultant and former U.S. diplomat with 28 years of experience in national security, international relations, and interagency policymaking. He served at the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service Officer from 1989 to 2018, with assignments in London, Algiers, Vienna, Istanbul, Baghdad, Kabul, and Washington, working on European and Middle East security, nuclear nonproliferation, counterterrorism, and energy geopolitics. He directed two offices of more than 30 staff, negotiated several nuclear security agreements, and represented the State Department at global summits, ministerial events, and UN and multilateral organizations.
Since retiring in 2018, Geoff has led Odlum Global Strategies, which advises government and commercial clients on national security technologies. He also serves as a Senior Adjunct at the RAND Corporation supporting its geopolitical forecasting initiative, as a Partnership Advisor to FedTech designing and running international dual-use technology accelerators, and as a board member at Coalescion, a woman-owned nonprofit running State Department-funded foreign assistance programs. He holds degrees from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the National War College. His experience assessing policy and negotiation outcomes, including his current work in structured geopolitical forecasting, lends both methodological rigor and institutional grounding to PolicyLogic's nonpartisan mission.
LinkedInSemmi Pasha previously served as a Financial Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the regulator and supervisor of nationally chartered banks. He earned his doctorate in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), specializing in international economics; his doctoral thesis, Essays on Covid and Capital, examined Covid-19's impact on international banking and capital markets. He also holds a master's degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In addition to his economics training, he studied machine learning and signal processing at Johns Hopkins and holds a graduate certificate in electrical and computer engineering, a technical foundation for his work on AI and economic policy. His combined expertise in quantitative analysis and machine learning supports PolicyLogic's technical and analytical work.
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