1. Joseph John DioGuardi is an American accountant and politician.
22 Facts About Joe DioGuardi
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Joe DioGuardi served as a Republican US Representative for New York's 20th congressional district from 1985 to 1989.
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Joe DioGuardi was the first Albanian American voting member of Congress.
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Joe DioGuardi was the Republican nominee for US Senate in New York during the 2010 special election, but lost to incumbent senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
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Joe DioGuardi is the father of songwriter and record producer Kara DioGuardi.
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Joe DioGuardi became a Certified Public Accountant and achieved partner status at age 31, after 10 years at the firm.
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Joe DioGuardi specialized in federal and state taxation for non-profit organizations, as well as the tax economics of charitable giving.
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Joe DioGuardi steadfastly denied the charges and his campaign filed its own complaint with the State Board of Elections that argued, contrary to his opponent's commercial, that the employees in question put funds in a separate "People For Joe DioGuardi" campaign account as required by law.
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Joe DioGuardi then ran again in the general election as the Conservative Party nominee.
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Joe DioGuardi ran in the general election on the lines of the Conservative Party and the Right-to-Life Party.
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In 2000 Joe DioGuardi launched a bid to run as the Conservative Party challenger for the 2000 Senate race as a consequence of Rudy Giuliani not running on the line.
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Joe DioGuardi ended this bid after Giuliani ended his campaign, and the Conservative line was given to Congressman Rick Lazio, the new Republican candidate.
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Joe DioGuardi was an active member of the executive committee of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and worked with Caucus founder Tom Lantos on apartheid in South Africa, and on the repression of Jews in the Soviet Union and the Tibetan people and monks in China.
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Joe DioGuardi founded and co-chaired the Congressional Long Island Sound and Hudson River Caucuses, which secured substantial increases in federal support.
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Joe DioGuardi co-founded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler the New York Task Force for Port, Rail and Industrial Development in order to restore lost jobs to New York's manufacturing and transportation sectors and preserve a portion of the Port of New York on the New York side of the harbor.
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In 1989, Joe DioGuardi founded a non-profit organization that is known as Truth in Government.
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In 1992, Joe DioGuardi authored the book Unaccountable Congress: It Doesn't Add Up, published by Regnery.
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On March 16,2010, Joe DioGuardi announced at Grand Central Terminal in New York City that he was seeking the Republican nomination for the US Senate seat held by incumbent Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
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Joe DioGuardi secured the nomination for US Senate from the Conservative Party of New York on May 28,2010, but did not secure enough votes from the New York Republican party contingencies at their state convention on June 2 to appear on the Republican line in the New York primary race on September 14.
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Joe DioGuardi narrowly defeated David Malpass in the primary election, securing the Republican line in the general election.
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Joe DioGuardi's son John is a counselor at the Phoenix House, a national non-profit drug treatment organization on whose board Joseph has served since 1972.
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Joe DioGuardi's daughter Kara DioGuardi is a songwriter and artist who has appeared as a judge on the American Idol show, and has been involved in Phoenix House.