Looks like while Howard Kaloogian was touring Iraq with the truth, his partner at Moving America Forward was signing contracts.
Sal Russo, who’s the chief strategist for Move America Forward as well as the chief strategist for Kaloogian’s campaign, is also one of the principals of Russo, Marsh, and Rogers, a big-hitting GOP consulting firm. Move America Forward operates out of the firm’s offices.
On July 9th, 2005, Kaloogian and his five talk radio hosts went over to Iraq on their trip sponsored by Move America Forward. On July 13th, an item appeared in Jack O’Dwyer’s Newsletter, which reports on the PR industry, that Sal Russo’s firm had picked up a contract to “to get ‘free media’ to promote the interests of the Kurds in the post-Hussein Iraq.” And that business also extended to the U.S. market – Russo, Marsh, and Rogers were hired to produce ads stateside. The Wall Street Journal described it as a “political-advertising contract with the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq” to produce “advertisements that run in the U.S. seeking investment in Kurdistan.”
