Great State of Nevada
June 18, 2025
As Ronda Kennedy launches yet another campaign—this time for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District—voters should take a long, hard look at her checkered political history and troubling professional record.
Kennedy has spent years chasing elected office across multiple states, with no wins, minimal support, and mounting controversies. Her latest campaign in Nevada looks less like a genuine commitment to public service and more like political carpetbagging.
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🔁 A String of Defeats in California:
Before parachuting into Nevada politics, Kennedy made several unsuccessful bids for office in her home state of California:
• In 2020, she ran for California’s 26th Congressional District and lost badly, garnering less than 40% of the vote in a district where she made little impact.
• She then attempted a run for the California State Assembly, mounting a campaign in District 44. That race also failed, with Kennedy again finishing far behind the frontrunners.
• Undeterred, she made another attempt for Assembly in a redistricted seat in 2022, which similarly went nowhere. Her campaign was characterized by minimal fundraising, poor organization, and little grassroots support.
Her repeated failures in California paint a picture of a candidate who couldn’t gain traction with voters, even in her backyard.
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⚠️ Suspended Law License for Misusing Client Trust Funds:
Kennedy’s professional conduct also raises serious concerns. According to the State Bar of California, Ronda Kennedy’s law license was suspended in January 2024 for 90 days due to her misuse of client trust funds—a serious ethical breach in the legal profession.
Trust funds are sacred in legal practice—they represent money held for clients and must be handled with the utmost integrity. Misusing these funds, as Kennedy did, reflects poor judgment and a disregard for fiduciary duty. Though the suspension was for 90 days, the stain on her professional reputation will last far longer.
To make matters worse, Kennedy is not licensed to practice law in Nevada, the very state she now seeks to represent in Congress.
Kennedy failed to properly handle personal injury cases, including not obtaining informed consent regarding a potential conflict of interest, failing to pursue court approval of a settlement diligently, and not maintaining adequate funds in her client trust account (see ALAB NEWS: https://alabnews.com/california-attorney-ronda-nadine-baldwin-kennedy-suspended-due-to-lack-of-diligence-and-communication-in-multiple-client-matters/).
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🗳️ A Bottom-Tier Performance in the Nevada U.S. Senate Primary:
Kennedy’s move to Nevada didn’t improve her political fortunes. In 2024, she ran in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat in Nevada—a race in which she finished near the bottom, receiving only about 2% of the vote statewide. Her performance reflected low name recognition, a weak campaign, and negligible voter trust.
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🌴 No Real Connection to Nevada:
Despite running in Nevada, Kennedy has no significant ties to the state, its institutions, or its people. Her legal career, political base, and electoral history are all rooted in California. Her critics—on both sides of the aisle—label her as a “California retread”: a recycled candidate fleeing a state where she couldn’t win, now attempting to sell herself to voters in Nevada without any meaningful record of service or engagement.
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🧾 A Pattern of Political Opportunism:
Rather than building credibility through local involvement, Kennedy has made a habit of jumping from one race to another, one state to another, in what increasingly appears to be a desperate search for relevance and power.
From the Assembly races in California to the U.S. Senate race in Nevada, and now the 3rd Congressional District, the story is always the same: no wins, no momentum, no clear vision—just ambition and self-promotion.
Conclusion:
Ronda Kennedy’s run for Congress in Nevada is not the fresh start it claims to be. It’s the latest in a long line of unsuccessful campaigns, ethical lapses, and out-of-state political posturing.
With a suspended law license for mishandling client funds, no Nevada legal credentials, and multiple failed campaigns behind her, voters in Nevada’s 3rd District should be asking: Is this really who we want representing us in Congress?
