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Ronda Kennedy

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Quick Facts
Personal Details

Political Experience

  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, California, District 26, 2020
  • Candidate, California State Assembly, District 44, 2018

Other Info

Priority Issues:

I am a wife and working mom who believes California has all of the potential to be an amazing place where I can continue to raise my children, and where they can build wonderful lives for themselves.

California has lost its way due to the decisions being made on a daily basis by our representatives in Sacramento. I am running because we should no longer be near the bottom of the nation when it comes to education and quality of life, while only leading the country in high taxes and poverty.

As an attorney and small business owner I have seen regulations that are keeping local employers from having successful businesses in California. The cost of doing business in California continues to rise, and the 'tax and spend' philosophy in Sacramento does not represent the hardworking people in Ventura County. California is becoming unaffordable for working families, and impossible for our children to be able to plan a future here.

  • As an educator and mother I have watched California public schools fail our children. Recent accounts have our schools ranked as low as 44th in the nation. That's unacceptable. California should be leading the country when it comes to educating our children. The home of the greatest advances in technology and bio-tech should be doing better for the next generation. We need to pay good teachers more and say goodbye to those who aren't making the grade.

    I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and am the granddaughter of the first African-American elected to the Wisconsin state legislature. I was raised with the fundamental principle that there is no substitute for hard work. It was this philosophy that helped me to get through college and law school at 40 years old, working as a full-time paralegal, with newborn triplets.

    I am currently a practicing lawyer in Ventura County as well as the Dean of a California law school. I live in Oak Park with my husband Michael and our five-year-old triplets, Annabel, Bianca, and Liam.

  • Policy Positions

    2020

    Abortion

    Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
    - Unknown Position

    Budget

    1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
    - No

    2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
    - Unknown Position

    Campaign Finance

    Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
    - Unknown Position

    Crime

    Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
    - Yes

    Defense

    Do you support increasing defense spending?
    - Unknown Position

    Economy

    1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
    - Yes

    2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
    - Yes

    3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
    - Yes

    Education

    Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
    - Unknown Position

    Energy and Environment

    1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
    - Unknown Position

    2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
    - Unknown Position

    Guns

    Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
    - No

    Health Care

    1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
    - Unknown Position

    2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
    - Unknown Position

    Immigration

    1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
    - Yes

    2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
    - Unknown Position

    National Security

    1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
    - Unknown Position

    2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
    - Unknown Position

    Trade

    Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
    - Unknown Position

    Speeches

    Kennedy Condemns George Floyd Killing

    Jun. 2, 2020Press Release
    Events

    2020

    Oct. 1
    Aug. 1
    March For The Innocent

    Sat PDT

    Conejo Creek Park Thousand Oaks, CA