(CA-) 50th: Kaloogian out, Roach decision unknown

[question everything]

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

50th: Kaloogian out, Roach decision unknown

By: WILLIAM FINN BENNETT - Staff Writer

NORTH COUNTY ---- The suspense continued to build Monday over whether Rancho Santa Fe investor Eric Roach will challenge Brian Bilbray for the GOP nomination in the June primary election for the 50th Congressional District seat formerly held by disgraced conservative Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

Bilbray received more votes than any other Republican in the April 11 special election to choose a temporary replacement for Cunningham through December. He will now face off against Democrat Francine Busby on June 6. One of two Democrats who ran in the April 11 contest, Busby handily won that party's spot, winning almost 44 percent of the votes.

But when voters go to the polls in June they will also be casting ballots in the regularly scheduled primary where each parties' voters will choose their candidate to compete in November's general election. The winner of that election will serve a full two-year term starting in January.

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On Monday, second place GOP candidate Roach could not be reached for comment, but a campaign spokesman said the millionaire businessman has not yet made up his mind whether to run in the primary. And third-place finisher and former state Assembleyman Howard Kaloogian said in a phone interview that if Roach decides to run in the primary, he would support him and not Bilbray.

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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/04/18/news/top_stories/41606200928.txt

[rocktivity]

1. Poor Kaloogian--and after he took such nice photos of downtown Baghdad

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[Judi Lynn]

2. All that Republican scheming & lying down the drain. What a shame. n/t

[madmark]

3. haha

[FredScuttle]

5. LOL....didn't he later change it to this?

[hyphenate]

4. I wonder if the to-do surrounding the website pics

had any part in his running third place. Honestly, it just sounds to me like the voters are just starting to smarten up a little more.

[SoCalDem]

7. Nah.. the shit storm between him and crybaby-Issa during the recall

kind of showed everyone what a weenie he was.. :)

[SoCalDem]

6. Well now he will have the time to go back to Iraq..and take his own pics