Ronda Kennedy for Congress: What You Need to Know
Ronda Kennedy, formerly Ronda Baldwin-Kennedy has announced that she's running for Congress (Congressional District 26) against Congresswoman Julia Brownley in 2020. The political run is the sequel to Ronda's 29,000-vote loss in her wildly unsuccessful 2019 "effort" to take on Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin. As a constituent in the area she's running to serve, I wanted to take a moment to share my personal experience with Ronda Kennedy.
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STORY TIME
(But don't read it before bed if you don't want nightmares.)
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After my personal experience with Ronda Kennedy, I will work my ass off to ensure she never represents our community and I believe everyone should be an informed voter, regardless of what political party you're affiliated with. Integrity matters.
June 2018 was my first experience/interaction with Ronda Kennedy — I had observed her interaction on Twitter with the editor of our local paper, The Acorn's Kyle Jorrey. She was responding to commentary he made regarding her win in the primary, positioning her to face off against Assemblymember Irwin in November 2018. Ronda Kennedy (then going by Ronda Baldwin-Kennedy) was arguing with Kyle, and others contributing to the thread, about the concept of "hometown roots" and grassroots movements, as someone had mentioned that they believed hometown roots would prevail in November, in support of Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (who is from Thousand Oaks and has deep hometown roots here, naturally). Ronda took extreme offense to this observation, suggesting that this was similar to telling someone to go back to their own country. So, I commented on the thread, stating that it appeared that Ronda wasn't familiar with the meaning of grassroots movements and that I encouraged her to do more research. That's when she replied, calling me "INVISIBLE MOMMY," screaming (when people write in all caplocks, I assume they're screaming anyway) that I am "part of the problem that keeps people of color on the Democrat plantation." It. Was. Bonkers. |
I was flabbergasted that a political candidate was interacting in such a way on Twitter, but I honestly didn't expect it to go much further than that.
However, it did.
Days later, I was notified that the woman who I was seeking a permanent order of protection against, fired her lawyer and hired Ronda to take over as counsel. She had observed Ronda's interaction with me on Twitter, and even commented underneath the exchange that she loved Ronda.
This put me in the position to experience Ronda Kennedy in all her incompetence throughout the duration of a court matter that would go on for nearly 10 more months.
Given that Ronda eagerly talked about the case to press here and here, I believe she took on the case believing the press and attention she would garner from it would boost her political campaign.
However, it did.
Days later, I was notified that the woman who I was seeking a permanent order of protection against, fired her lawyer and hired Ronda to take over as counsel. She had observed Ronda's interaction with me on Twitter, and even commented underneath the exchange that she loved Ronda.
This put me in the position to experience Ronda Kennedy in all her incompetence throughout the duration of a court matter that would go on for nearly 10 more months.
Given that Ronda eagerly talked about the case to press here and here, I believe she took on the case believing the press and attention she would garner from it would boost her political campaign.
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Ronda's tactics, as it would appear to me, became clear rather early. She absolutely buried my lawyer in unnecessary discovery and paperwork requests. As my lawyer explained it to me, there are some lawyers who will do this in hopes of suffocating the petitioner financially, forcing them to drop the case, simply because it would be too costly to continue. Now whether that was her intent or not, all I can say is that my lawyer logged a shit ton of hours on this. So many hours in fact, that it chalked up to a $65,000 bill for the respondent, upon the judge concluding the case in my favor. That's a LOT of hours.
In addition to paperwork shenanigans, Ronda called multiple last-minute "emergency" hearings, (of which she often got the time wrong for court), and attempted to have the case dropped multiple times, dragging my lawyer to court each of these dates. She was not successful in any of these attempts. And then there were the subpoenas. She sent out more than half a dozen incomplete subpoenas ... ya can't make it up.
During one of these hearings, when I refused to drop the case, she told my lawyer that if I did not drop the case, she would seek a restraining order against me. That felt unethical to me. I've never heard of legal counsel (let alone a political candidate at the time), using the threat of legal retaliation to scare/silence a petitioner.
In addition to paperwork shenanigans, Ronda called multiple last-minute "emergency" hearings, (of which she often got the time wrong for court), and attempted to have the case dropped multiple times, dragging my lawyer to court each of these dates. She was not successful in any of these attempts. And then there were the subpoenas. She sent out more than half a dozen incomplete subpoenas ... ya can't make it up.
During one of these hearings, when I refused to drop the case, she told my lawyer that if I did not drop the case, she would seek a restraining order against me. That felt unethical to me. I've never heard of legal counsel (let alone a political candidate at the time), using the threat of legal retaliation to scare/silence a petitioner.
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And then there's the matter of the depositions. Ronda (and a second lawyer she hired as co-counsel, Richard Elie), deposed both me and my husband for eight hours each. My deposition consisted mostly of Ronda's co-counsel (she didn't want to take the lead in questioning me apparently) challenging my political opinions and being offended on Ronda's behalf that I was wearing a shirt of Jacqui Irwin during my deposition.
And while all of that was a real party, and she had her co-counsel ask where I could be served because she was going to file a lawsuit against me for defamation, it was nothing in comparison to what she did to my husband. Richard Elie, by the way, would go on to tweet out pictures he took of my deposition transcript far before it was ever filed into public record. Ronda was tagged in these tweets. The night before my husband's deposition, Ronda tweeted to his employer, tagging my husband's account in the tweet, stating that she was going to withdraw her business because they employed him, and that both he and I were terrorizing our community, while alleging he made "racial attacks" against her. The next day, during the deposition of Brian, she spent a significant amount of time asking my husband about Al Sharpton, and ... his work's social media policy — asking him whether or not he thought people should be allowed to contact his CEO and file complaints against him for his comments on social media. And, do you know what was happening during his deposition? Ronda's co-campaign chair, Nicole "Nikky Jones," and her client whom I have an order of protection against now, were both doing just that ... contacting my husband's employer to file false complaints against him. We know this because his employer told us about their complaints and they each testified to doing so in court. |
By the way, Ronda's inept ability to navigate the law, let alone a courtroom, was absolutely astounding to behold. But moreso, was the fact that the judge concluded multiple restraining order violations had occurred — of which Ronda Kennedy was involved in. SHE WAS THE LEGAL COUNSEL and was present for and/or involved in the violation of the restraining order on multiple occasions — one of them being at her own campaign fundraiser.
That should tell you what you need to know.
Did I mention in her closing statement, that she admitted that all of the witnesses she called against me had "credibility issues"?
That should tell you what you need to know.
Did I mention in her closing statement, that she admitted that all of the witnesses she called against me had "credibility issues"?
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Ronda Kennedy and Genevieve Peters
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Then, there's just the straight-up lying. I shared my concern about Ronda Kennedy's association with a woman by the name of Genevieve Peters, whose xenophobic and racist behavior has been captured and reported about (by the Southern Poverty Law Center, among others) throughout the state of California, as Genevieve Peters is an activist that travels up and down the state to various city council meetings to decry SB54.
To understand my concern about her association with Genevieve ... at a city council meeting in Simi Valley in 2018 Genevieve filmed herself saying this, while speakers went up and spoke during public comments regarding SB 54: "she was probably illegal we need to check her papers check her papers check her papers (I was a teacher) you took jobs from Americans why don’t you do that in your own country? bye felicia, bye felicia, bye felicia, bye felicia, bye felicia they don’t know when to stop there time is up in America now there’s a new sheriff in town, is donald j trump and they’re imploding she’s probably illegal illegal parents send her back send her back continues filming (looks like she’s dressed up to get a date) hopefully they all get deported hypocrites that’s all they are, hypocrites, unpartied hypocrites" Naturally, I would be concerned with anyone running to represent my area that approves of this behavior and mentality. Anyway, Ronda Kennedy was pictured with Genevieve, and when someone on Twitter questioned the photo and her association to Genevieve, Ronda said it was a lie, that the picture doesn't exist, tweeted that she was going to sue that person for defamation, and that it's not fair to associate her with that because she has been the victim of Neo Nazi hate groups. Pretty bold tweet, considering there are MULTIPLE photos. She also took it upon herself to bring up my then-ongoing court case in her public tweet, while she was the retained opposing legal counsel. All ethics, right? But really, why lie, Ronda? |
What you may not know is that, because Ronda Kennedy was not only a political candidate at the time of my court case, but also opposing legal counsel, she sought to block me, a constituent, from engaging with her on political issues.
After I replied to a political tweet of hers on Twitter, she emailed my attorney and threatened that she would have to seek "protection from the court" if I attempted to engage with her further, claiming "harassment."
That however, didn't stop her from constantly tweeting about me. As you can see in the example, she was prone to taking multiple screenshots of my page, and tweeting about me, while she was opposing counsel. So, she used her role as "opposing legal counsel" to make threats of legal retaliation against me if I engaged with her directly about political issues, but then when I respected that, and shared my opinions on my own page, she took screenshots, and complained on her political page ... while she was opposing counsel.
After I replied to a political tweet of hers on Twitter, she emailed my attorney and threatened that she would have to seek "protection from the court" if I attempted to engage with her further, claiming "harassment."
That however, didn't stop her from constantly tweeting about me. As you can see in the example, she was prone to taking multiple screenshots of my page, and tweeting about me, while she was opposing counsel. So, she used her role as "opposing legal counsel" to make threats of legal retaliation against me if I engaged with her directly about political issues, but then when I respected that, and shared my opinions on my own page, she took screenshots, and complained on her political page ... while she was opposing counsel.
As it turns out, a friend happened across her resume (back when she was running — unsuccessfully — in Santa Clarita) and offered some free editing. It's a pretty big case load (pun intended!), so I'm offering a bit of advice and free editing as well.
Page 1:
Wait, why are there 4 pages? FFS. No one needs to know what your allowance was when you were five and doing house chores, Ronda. Ronda. Sweetheart. Start with your most current position and work your way back. Always. Nobody cares what you were doing in 1994. NOBODY. (Unless you were murdering someone ... and I'm not ruling that out!) Consistency is key Ronda. If you're going to use a period after a bullet point ... you need to use one after every bullet point. If you're going to put returns in between job titles and duties, it should be consistent.
Good lord. What do you have against hyphenation? Let's practice: "day-to-day business"
Commas. They matter. Tense really matters. If anything, pick one. Page 1 is having an identity crisis right now.
Is there a reason for the random capitalization? General job titles that aren't specific should not be capitalized. And random words in the middle of bullet points should not be capitalized. That being said, the beginning word of each bullet point should be capitalized.
Another general tip: the way you display your title, dates worked and location should be consistent in formatting and location for each and every section.
Page 2 (and you thought page 1 needed work!):
"Case manager for all personal injury, EECO and NERC cases from assisting clients in filing initial complaint with EEOC to drafting court pleading complaint after right to sue letter was been issued."
>Was been issued.<
We haven't yet hit the year 2210.
Yo, there's a lot here to digest. Start with the handwritten edits and then we can circle back with fresh eyes on page 2.
Page 3:
My eyes are bleeding. I'm a bit baffled. Is there a reason you're omitting where you received your education degrees? Ronda. I see that you note that you "ensure compliance with the State Bar of California rules and regulations." (That's interesting!)
Page 4:
I can't. People fighting with basic grammar just makes me sad!
Conclusion: Set fire to this and start over. Seriously.
Page 1:
Wait, why are there 4 pages? FFS. No one needs to know what your allowance was when you were five and doing house chores, Ronda. Ronda. Sweetheart. Start with your most current position and work your way back. Always. Nobody cares what you were doing in 1994. NOBODY. (Unless you were murdering someone ... and I'm not ruling that out!) Consistency is key Ronda. If you're going to use a period after a bullet point ... you need to use one after every bullet point. If you're going to put returns in between job titles and duties, it should be consistent.
Good lord. What do you have against hyphenation? Let's practice: "day-to-day business"
Commas. They matter. Tense really matters. If anything, pick one. Page 1 is having an identity crisis right now.
Is there a reason for the random capitalization? General job titles that aren't specific should not be capitalized. And random words in the middle of bullet points should not be capitalized. That being said, the beginning word of each bullet point should be capitalized.
Another general tip: the way you display your title, dates worked and location should be consistent in formatting and location for each and every section.
Page 2 (and you thought page 1 needed work!):
"Case manager for all personal injury, EECO and NERC cases from assisting clients in filing initial complaint with EEOC to drafting court pleading complaint after right to sue letter was been issued."
>Was been issued.<
We haven't yet hit the year 2210.
Yo, there's a lot here to digest. Start with the handwritten edits and then we can circle back with fresh eyes on page 2.
Page 3:
My eyes are bleeding. I'm a bit baffled. Is there a reason you're omitting where you received your education degrees? Ronda. I see that you note that you "ensure compliance with the State Bar of California rules and regulations." (That's interesting!)
Page 4:
I can't. People fighting with basic grammar just makes me sad!
Conclusion: Set fire to this and start over. Seriously.
I find Ronda Kennedy to be one of the most unethical people I've ever come across, and someone completely unqualified not only for any role as a political representative, but as any sort of leader, really. I thought this was something important for me to ensure that people knew about. This to me, isn't a conversation about whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. It's about the character of a person. I do not want someone I believe to be of bad moral character and questionable ethics — personally, professionally and ethically — to represent our community.
Did I mention she came out in support of Scientology and after she received backlash on Twitter, and from Leah Remini, she deleted her tweets about it? You can see the Scientology tab for an example. Add that on to her recent participation in QAnon conspiracy theories (attending marches, being pictured with people holding up the #WWG1WGA hashtags, etc.) ... this is who you want representing us?
Did I mention she came out in support of Scientology and after she received backlash on Twitter, and from Leah Remini, she deleted her tweets about it? You can see the Scientology tab for an example. Add that on to her recent participation in QAnon conspiracy theories (attending marches, being pictured with people holding up the #WWG1WGA hashtags, etc.) ... this is who you want representing us?
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P.S. Did I mention the time I ran a poll on my page, and 100% of the people who participated voted that they'd rather be represented by a can of Chef Boyardee than Ronda Kennedy?
I rest my case, your honor!
I rest my case, your honor!
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