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Howard J. Kaloogian (born December 30, 1959) is a conservative Republican politician, who is a former member of the California State Assembly.
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.
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. He endorsed Senator Phil Gramm's presidential bid in 1995 .
Kaloogian was twice re-elected to the Assembly. He recorded an unchanged majority, 61%, in the 1996 legislative election and was re-elected again in the 1998 election, where his share of the vote fell to 57%.
In 2003, Kaloogian became the chairman of the Recall Gray Davis Committee, dedicated to the ousting of California's governor, Gray Davis.
Kaloogian is a founder and co-chairman of Move America Forward, a controversial conservative political action group. Kaloogian considers President Ronald Reagan to be one of his political heroes. 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.
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. Kaloogian is currently running in the special election to fill the opening created by the resignation of disgraced Congressman Duke Cunningham in California's 50th Congressional District.
Kaloogian is divorced and lives in San Marcos, California.
2006 campaign for Congress
Kaloogian is currently running in a 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.
CRITICISM FROM LIBERAL ACTIVISTS
As Kaloogian is in the midst of a highly contentious race for Congress (likely the most expensive congressional race in history) there are numerous attacks from the far-left on Kaloogian and others who disagree with his public policy positions.
Kaloogian's conservative supporters have in turn rallied around him and attacked those on the political Left who are trying to defeat Kaloogian.
As such, this entry is being edited so as to reflect only biographical information that reflects Kaloogian's track record, experience, accomplishment and conservative pedigree up to his announcement for U.S. Congress in July 2005.
Notes and references
- "Final California Election Results", Los Angeles Times, November 10, 1994
- "20 State GOP Lawmakers Back Gramm", Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1995
- "Final California Election Results", Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1996
- "Final California Election Results", Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1998
- 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. Others point out the Recall Gray Davis Committee organization collected no signatures and spent no money on the recall.
- Kaloogian's official website. He states "My political hero, Ronald Reagan, made a profound statement in his farewell address to the nation."
- "California Elections", Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2004