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Howard Kaloogian
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Howard Kaloogian

Howard J. Kaloogian (born December 30, 1959) is a conservative Republican politician, who is a former member of the California State Assembly. Image File history File links Howard_Kaloogian. ... Image File history File links Howard_Kaloogian. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States two-party system, the other one being the Democratic Party. ... California State Assembly Chamber in the State Capitol The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. ...

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Biography

Kaloogian grew up in Michigan, of Armenian-born parents. Kaloogian earned a Bachelor's from Michigan State University and a law degree from Pepperdine University. During 1988–1996, he was an estate attorney. He got his start in politics at the suggestion of Bill Morrow, after Morrow read a strongly worded letter Kaloogian wrote to the editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune purporting to correct a reader's misleading interpretation of the preamble to the Constitution of the United States.-1... Michigan State University (MSU) is a public university in East Lansing, Michigan. ... Pepperdine University is a private institution of higher learning affiliated with the Church of Christ. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The San Diego Union-Tribune is a daily newspaper published in San Diego, California by the Copley Press. ... Page I of the Constitution of the United States of America Page II of the United States Constitution Page III of the United States Constitution Page IV of the United States Constitution The Syng inkstand, with which the Constitution was signed The Constitution of the United States is the supreme...


From 1994–2000, Kaloogian was a member of the California Assembly, representing California District 74, which covers portions of northern San Diego County. He won his seat in the 1994 legislative elections, with 61% of the votes counted. [1] He endorsed Senator Phil Gramm's presidential bid in 1995 [2]. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Official website: http://www. ... William Philip Phil Gramm (born July 8, 1942 in Fort Benning, Georgia) served as a Democratic Congressman (1978-1983), a Republican Congressman (1983-1984) and a Republican Senator from Texas (1985-2002). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Kaloogian was twice re-elected to the Assembly. He recorded an unchanged majority, 61%, in the 1996 legislative election [3] and was re-elected again in the 1998 election, where his share of the vote fell to 57%. [4]


In 2003, Kaloogian became the chairman of the Recall Gray Davis Committee, dedicated to the ousting of California's governor, Gray Davis.[5] 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 2003 California recall was a special election permitted under California law. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total   - Width   - Length    - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi  410,000 km² 250 miles  402. ... Joseph Graham Davis Jr. ...


However, the North County Times reports Kaloogian "started" the recall effort [1] and Kaloogian was thought to be a prominent enough leader of the recall drive to appear on CNN's Crossfire and in lumn George Will's nationally syndicated co


Kaloogian is a founder and co-chairman of Move America Forward, an IRS recognized 501c3 non-profit organization that claims to be dedicated to "supporting our troops and the war against terrorism." Kaloogian considers President Ronald Reagan to be one of his political heroes.[6] Kaloogian serves on the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project and was the Chairman of the Defend Reagan Project, which campaigned in 2003 for CBS to drop a docudrama about Ronald Reagan, The Reagans. The campaign was successful, as CBS did not show the mini-series, but handed it off to Showtime. A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Move America Forward is a controversial, conservative political action group based in the U.S. state of California. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ... A Docudrama or Docu-Drama is a type of work (usually a movie or television show) that combines elements of Documentary and Drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing set pieces to take dramatic liberty with events. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... The Reagans is a four-hour miniseries about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family which CBS had planned to broadcast in November 2003 during fall sweeps, but was ultimately broadcast on November 30 of that year on premium cable channel Showtime. ... This article needs to be updated. ...


In 2004 Kaloogian ran for the U.S. Senate from California and lost the Republican primary with 11% of the vote, placing him 3rd out of 11 candidates. [7] He also ran unsuccesfully in the special election to fill the opening created by the resignation of disgraced Congressman Duke Cunningham in California's 50th Congressional District coming in 3rd out of 14 Republican candidates and overall 4th out of 18 total candidates. It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in... Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total   - Width   - Length    - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi  410,000 km² 250 miles  402. ... The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States two-party system, the other one being the Democratic Party. ... For the United States football player, see Randall Cunningham. ... A special election will be held in the 50th Congressional District of California to choose a new member of the United States House of Representatives to replace Randy Cunningham, who resigned November 28, 2005 after pleading guilty to bribery, wire fraud, mail fraud, and tax evasion charges. ...


Kaloogian is divorced and lives in San Marcos, California. San Marcos is a city located in the northern portion of San Diego County, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 54,977. ...


2006 campaign for Congress

Kaloogian ran in the special election to fill the opening in California's 50th District to the House of Representatives caused by the resignation of disgraced former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. In the special elections where the top vote-getter from each party moves to the next round, Kaloogian finished a distant third among the Republican candidates. The next round will take place at the same time as the primary for the term that commences January 3, 2007. On April 17, Kaloogian announced that he will withdraw from the primary for the next congressional term. He indicated he is inclined to endorse Republican candidate Eric Roach should he decide to run [2]. A special election will be held in the 50th Congressional District of California to choose a new member of the United States House of Representatives to replace Randy Cunningham, who resigned November 28, 2005 after pleading guilty to bribery, wire fraud, mail fraud, and tax evasion charges. ... A map of district 50 District 50s location in California The 50th Congressional district in California represents part of north coastal San Diego County. ... The chamber of the United States House of Representatives is located in the south wing of the Capitol building, in Washington, D.C.. This photograph shows a rare glimpse of the four vote tallying boards (the blackish squares across the top), which display each members name and vote as... Randy Duke Cunningham speaking January 2005 Randall Harold Cunningham (born December 8, 1941), usually known as Randy or Duck, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Californias 50th Congressional District. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ...


Kaloogian's campaign for Congress included questions surrounding his use of testimonials and pictures of people who had not specifically endorsed him in the 2006 congressional campaign.


Testimonials on Kaloogian

  • In March, campaign literature and Kaloogian's website included a photograph of Republican State Senator Tom McClintock and a statement McClintock made regarding in Kaloogian in December 2003: "Howard Kaloogian has distinguished himself as one of the most principled, courageous and steadfast conservative leaders in California."[8] The quote was reported by several media organizations in various forms including at the North County Times.

However, McClintock issued a statement in March 2006 saying: "It has come to my attention that a campaign mailing on behalf of Howard Kaloogian includes a picture and quote from me that suggests that I have endorsed his candidacy for U. S. Congress. I have not."[9]. Thomas Miller McClintock (born July 10, 1956) is a Republican California State Senator. ...

  • State Senator Bill Morrow, who is running against Kaloogian, is also cited by Kaloogian for praise that Morrow made in regards to Kaloogian.[10][11]
  • Endorsements from social conservatives such as James Dobson who was appointed to the Commission on Pornography, 1985-86 during the Reagan administration and Concerned Women for America, a religious women’s political organization, are at odds with Kaloogian’s endorsement from Gabrielle Reilly who appears as a model on an adult website[12] and is socially liberal.

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Misleading photograph

Baghdad photo

Kaloogian's campaign website as it appeared on March 28th 2006
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Kaloogian's campaign website as it appeared on March 28th 2006

On March 28, 2006, Howard Kaloogian's campaign website displayed a street level photograph which was claimed to have been recently[13]taken in downtown Baghdad (see screenshot). [14] The photograph was offered as evidence that the security situation in Baghdad was better than was being reported in the press.[15] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x2399, 627 KB) Summary This is a snapshot of the page at http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x2399, 627 KB) Summary This is a snapshot of the page at http://www. ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Commenters at various blogs determined this photo was most likely taken in Bakırköy, a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey.[16] [17][18] Various indicators in the image suggested the location of the intersection was not Baghdad. Many signs are written in Turkish (which uses a modified version of the Latin alphabet), but none are in Arabic. Women are seen wearing revealing (western) clothes, taxicabs are similar to those seen in Istanbul and European-style traffic signs are visible (as are signs of businesses based solely in Turkey). Once it was established that the photograph was actually of a streetcorner in suburban Istanbul, Kaloogian's campaign attributed the error to an unidentified "webmaster."[19] The photograph was replaced by another one taken from what appears to be an upper floor of some structure. [20] [21] [22] Bakırköy is a middle class suburb of Ä°stanbul, Turkey on its European side. ... Satellite image of Istanbul and the Bosphorus Istanbul (Turkish: Ä°stanbul) is Turkeys largest city, and its cultural and economic center. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...


Kaloogian later said using the photo was "a stupid mistake".[23]


Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Final California Election Results", Los Angeles Times, November 10, 1994
  2. ↑ "20 State GOP Lawmakers Back Gramm", Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1995
  3. ↑ "Final California Election Results", Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1996
  4. ↑ "Final California Election Results", Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1998
  5. ↑ Worldmag.com. How grassroots conservatives used the Internet and talk radio in the first successful drive to force a recall vote of a California governor, Lynn Vincent, August 2, 2003. Campaign aides to Kaloogian's congressional opponent, Brian Bilbray claim Kaloogian collected no signatures for the recall effort.
  6. ↑ Kaloogian's official website. He states "My political hero, Ronald Reagan, made a profound statement in his farewell address to the nation."
  7. ↑ "California Elections", Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2004
  8. ↑ http://www.kaloogianforcongress.com/testimonial.asp Accessed 2006-03-30]
  9. ↑ TPM Muckraker website, 2006-03-30
  10. ↑ "McClintock and Morrow protest Kaloogian using photos, quotes"
  11. ↑ Kooligian's current endorsement page. Among those listed are psychologist and religious activist James Dobson and columnist, activist and swimsuit model .
  12. ↑ Gabrielle Reilly, adult interent site
  13. ↑ North County Times. Kaloogian's trip was in July, 2005, although in speeches and on his campaign webpage he refers to it as a "recent" trip
  14. ↑ Howard Kaloogian website Erroneous photograph was removed, replaced with the caption: "We originally posted a photograph not of Baghdad, Iraq but from Istanbul, Turkey where our delegation traveled on the way home to the United States. We apologize for this mistake."
  15. ↑ Caption reads as follows: "Downtown Baghdad. We took this photo of dowtown [sic] Baghdad while we were in Iraq. Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it - in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism."
  16. ↑ DailyKos poster anthonyLA
  17. ↑ Democratic Underground
  18. ↑ DailyKos poster jem6x. Provides evidence the location as the Istanbul suburb of Bakırköy.
  19. ↑ Joshua Micah Marshall quotes Kaloogian during a phone call on March 29, 2006: "[O]n the way back from Baghdad some of the crew stopped in Istanbul as a layover. We turned all the photographs [from the trip] over to the webmaster, and it appears he took one from the stopover and not from Baghdad."
  20. ↑ Poster "Londonbear" Evidence that the photograph may have been taken from the Al-Rashid Hotel in the Green Zone in Baghdad.
  21. ↑ Analysis of the EXIF data on the replacement image suggesting that it was taken at the time of Mr. Kaloogian's July 2005 trip to Baghdad. See image.
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  22. ↑ Washington Post online. Baghdad on the Bosporus, Dana Milbank, March 30, 2006. The entire Iraq trip page was temporarily pulled down without explanation, as Milbank confirms in this article.
  23. ↑ SFgate.com Candidate admits 'stupid' Web error, Carla Marinucci, March 30, 2006, p. B3. According to the article, "Kaloogian said the photo was taken during a layover in Istanbul and was mixed up with those taken on the Iraq tour."

James Dobson, Ph. ... A screenshot of TPMs old format Joshua Micah Marshall (born February 15, 1969 in St. ... The Al-Rashid Hotel is an 18-story hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, favored by journalists and media personnel. ... The Green Zone is a 10 km² (4 mile²) area in central Baghdad that is the main base for coalition officials in Iraq. ... Location of Baghdad within Iraq Baghdad (Arabic: ‎ translit: , Kurdish: Bexda, from Persian Baagh-daad meaning given by God) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 192 KB) Summary Analysis of the EXIF data for the image currently found at http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 192 KB) Summary Analysis of the EXIF data for the image currently found at http://www. ...

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Howard Kaloogian (born 1960) is a conservative Republican politician, who was a California State Assemblyman from 1994-2000 representing portions of San Diego County.
In 2003, Kaloogian became the chairman of the Recall Gray Davis Committee, dedicated to the ousting of California's governor, Gray Davis.
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