Vote of No Confidence in Will Rodriguez-Kennedy as Chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party
At the September 25 meeting of the Point Loma Democratic Club, members voted in support of submitting this letter to Central Committee leadership to express our strong position of “No confidence” and opposition to Will Rodriguez-Kennedy resuming duties as Chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party.
We understand he is involved with competing lawsuits in the Superior Court in San Diego, and is also the subject of a related investigation conducted by our Party’s Ethics Committee.
Given the facts made public in recent days: We support retaining Becca Taylor as the “Acting Chair” of the County Party so she can continue to focus on raising funds and electing Democrats in the November 8 midterm election.
We also support waiting until the regularly scheduled elections at the January 2023 meeting to elect a new Chair and other Central Committee leadership positions at that time.
We are especially concerned about Party finances since many of our members and friends have stated firmly that they will not contribute to the Party as long as Will Rodriguez-Kennedy remains Chair.
We are sharing our recommendations for actions in this matter with our sister Democratic Clubs.
We are better than this.
The vote was unanimous with one abstention.
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Will Rodriguez-Kennedy has made a career out of chaos, corruption, and self-preservation—no matter the party. As a Log Cabin Republican, he was apparently caught stealing money, prompting co-chairs Vicky Kerley and Chad Michael Terry to give him an ultimatum: resign or face prosecution. He chose resignation. But instead of accepting blame, he went on a smear campaign so toxic that Vicky eventually left the state just to get away from him.
After torching his reputation on the right, Will switched teams and somehow clawed his way into leading the San Diego County Democratic Party. But nothing changed—except the targets of his aggression. Now he turns that same hostility on fellow Democrats, all while claiming he was “exonerated” after being accused of raping Oscar. In reality, he settled. A settlement isn’t an exoneration.
And this isn’t the first time questions have swirled around missing money. Even before COVID, Cindy Green raised alarms about Democratic Party donations from Tom Steyer that mysteriously vanished under Will’s watch. Different party, same shady behavior.
And let’s not pretend he didn’t know what was going on in the gay softball league. He knew. He always knows—and he always protects himself first. He just plays dumb when it suits him.