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October 09, 2013 07:39 AM UTC

So Long, "CAPartyGirl"

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Recall spokesperson Jennifer Kerns.
Recall spokesperson Jennifer Kerns, a.k.a. “CAPartyGirl.”

As Josh Richman reports for Political Blotter, the MediaNews Bay Area political blog:

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly today announced the addition of a familiar face to his gubernatorial campaign – veteran GOP press secretary Jennifer Kerns.

Kerns, 40, comes to the Donnelly campaign fresh from her role in unseating two Colorado state senators in a recall election prompted by those lawmakers support of stricter gun laws enacted this year…

And Kerns and Donnelly were together at the California Republican Party’s convention this past weekend in Anaheim to roll out Kerns’ new 501(c)(4) group Free California, which “won’t rule out ‘Colorado-style recall elections’ should Gov. Jerry Brown sign the gun-control bills now in his desk.

…Kerns also has been a consultant to the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association for almost five years, and was a spokeswoman for Proposition 8, the gay-marriage ban of 2008.

Named as the California Republican Party’s communications director in January 2012, Kerns took some heat two months later for suggesting that a female pundit who’d criticized Rush Limbaugh for calling a law school student a “slut” was herself one. Kerns and the state GOP parted ways shortly after that, although that might’ve had more to do with the party’s dire financial situation than with Kerns.

Democrats tried hard to make an issue of spokesperson Jennifer Kerns, known via Twitter as "CAPartyGirl"–a longtime California GOP communications hired hand who ended up being the face of the "grassroots" recalls against Senate President John Morse and Senator Angela Giron. Kerns even denied having been brought in from out of state on a national news broadcast, saying only in response to questions that she "lives and works in Colorado." It's possible that was technically true between April of this year and…well, sometime before yesterday. But her new job working for a California gubernatorial candidate, and heading up a pro-gun California group threatening recalls, won't leave much time to visit her adopted home state.

As the old saying goes, "victory erases bad memories." That's certainly the case for Jennifer Kerns, whose most notable contribution to the recall storyline came when she melodramatically warned of "massive amounts of voter fraud, including ballots possibly even being mailed in from Chicago." When asked for proof that something like that was possible, she cited the presence of a car with Illinois tags outside the Pueblo Democratic Party office, and the presence of two Organizing for America staff in said car. To be honest, after this incident was ridiculed by Slate, we might have thought future conservative causes in need of a spokesperson might look elsewhere.

But we guess you can tell that to the board of Jennifer Kerns' new 501(c)(4).

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12 thoughts on “So Long, “CAPartyGirl”

  1. No question this is more anectdotal evidence the red elites are noticing California's economic rise from the ashes.

    Time to plant a myriad of redleg movers and shakers in the Golden State, try to kick start some kind of resurgence in conserve chicanery.

    Since the cleansing of redleg influence in California politics, the State has grown a surplus not seen since before reagan. Even Bill Maher and Chris Mathews have highlighted the success the State's enjoyed with Governor Jerry Brown and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. This certainly adds further positive proof to the theory that your capacity for constructive, competent, capable government improves incrementally with every subtraction of ultra corrupt and incompetent, economically flawed red influence, and the addition of professional, hard working and ethical Democratic legislators.

    party girl's best bet is to hit the Orange County districts and the issa cesspool. conservative hate and bigotry is alive and well there. Maybe nick androsek can strut the Santa Monica pier with his goon signs. lappeirre should do well rockin' a ten grand a plate dinner or two in some of the wynn properties. Hey, why not bring in nugent. (Just make sure he's changed out of those poop filled trousers he's famous for).

    But something tells me California doesn't want to revert back to the dark ages.Goony bullying won't work there. And Governor? You gotta be kidding me. Not with the State doing this well.

      1. Gun laws are still law and the democrats have the majority in the senate and house. Who lost you radical right wing nut n3b? Be gone from here you pathetic right wing POS troll.

      2. Morse and Giron lost, and Republicans are two steps closer to taking over the Senate. That's all this was ever about. The gun laws are here to stay, and nothing you or PFR or BFDF or RMGO can do about it.  Dudley Brown's big lawsuit won't go anywhere, because the laws are constitutional. Colorado constitution allows reasonable limits on weapons.  The only law the NRA is contesting is the concealed carry law, and that has nothing to do with RMGO's lawsuit, or the laws that Giron and Morse signed. Legislators are not being intimidated into signing the scary questionnaire.

        All of the pro-gun activists got used by the jillionaires. We lost two good Senators. Jennifer Kerns added to her resume. The Head brothers became famous, and probably have a future on Fox. I guess that you can feel smug if you like.

        But in Colorado, you're going to be paying $10 for a background check, limiting your semi-auto magazines to 15 rounds, and not able to openly buy guns if you're a domestic abuser, for a long time to come.

        NRA isn't showing up with any big $$ to fund the recalls, yet, at any rate, and Laura Carno's group is busy fighting amendment 66.  Those recalls are going to fizzle out without the big dollar donors to pay petition gatherers. So enjoy the smugness while you can.

        1. Agree.The "pro-gun activists", as you so gently described them, definitely got used by the firearms manufacturers and the republican establishment, who didn'r even bother to thank them, for cryin' out loud.. They don't even know they got played,, or if they do, they're not owning up to it. 

          A pyrrhic victory that did nothing to change any laws, cost two really capable Senators thier jobs, and alerted SD19 to the upcoming clusterfuck that will be a second failed recall effort here.

          MJ55, you did a great job highlighting this. 

  2. Kerns' big Basic Freedom Defense Fund and Pueblo Freedom & Rights questionnaire to scare all the legislators into repealing the gun laws has apparently fallen flat on its face. They put out the questionnaire September 13, planned to publish Oct 1.

    Rumor is that Dudley Brown of RMGO has asked  Republican lawmakers not to sign or return it, as he sees the BFDF /PFR as competition. Democratic lawmakers would be nuts to sign and return the questionnaire – it would be like volunteering for the next recall.

    RMGO is allied with the original Durango -based San Juan Freedom Defense Fund.  which orginally tried to recall Senator McLachlan.

    Looks as though the CA Party girl has had a falling out with Colorado gun rights activists post-recall.  But then, this was always just about Republican control of the State Senate. It was never really about guns. There is no possibility of repeal of the gun laws while Democrats hold majorities in both chambers of the State Legislature. That's why the Colorado Senate is being targeted through multiple venues now.

     

    As far as Kern's other projects, the Colorado Women's Project, which attempts to mobilize women around the conservative issues of the day, apparently Laura Carno has taken on that gig with the Colorado Women's Alliance,  currently spreading lies about Amendment 66.

    So buh-bye, Jenn. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

     

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