LANSING — Tonight, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes issued the following statement on Mike Rogers advancing to the general election:
“Mike Rogers has shown that he is only out for himself – he walked through the revolving door to enrich himself at Michiganders’ expense and then abandoned Michigan for a million-dollar mansion in Florida the first chance he got. Rogers wants to enact a dangerous agenda: banning abortion, supporting tax giveaways for big corporations, and jeopardizing Social Security and Medicare – and that’s exactly why Michiganders will reject him and his self-serving politics in November.”
What to know about Mike Rogers:
Rogers abandoned Michigan and walked through the revolving door to enrich himself at the expense of Michiganders.
- Rogers abandoned Michigan for Florida where he owns a 4,751-square-foot, $1.7 million Cape Coral mansion that “was his official residence until his decision to run for U.S. Senate.” Rogers received a “$50,000 homestead tax exemption on the [Florida] property for 2022,” and he still does not have a house in Michigan.
- Rogers “passed through the ‘revolving door,’ advising companies on issues he dealt with in Congress,” and he has “multiplied his net worth, disclosing between $5.5 and $14.5 million in various other investments.”
- After he left Congress, Rogers made “more than $32,000 from paid speeches in 2022, nearly $2 million in income from board positions at tech companies and cybersecurity firms in the last two years, and assets totaling as high as $17.5 million.”
Rogers will do anything to enrich himself, working for companies with ties to American adversaries that threaten our national security.
- Rogers has “gained hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth through companies that have partnered with Chinese firms” and “personally benefited from his connections to China in opposition to U.S. national security interests.”
- Rogers worked for AT&T while “the company was trying to broker a deal to sell Huawei products in the United States” which “the U.S. House of Representatives, citing Rogers’ investigation, urged AT&T to abandon.”
- Rogers has “been linked to several Saudi companies” “in which he has personally gained from, including one with questionable nuclear ambitions.”
Rogers supports dangerous abortion bans and has an extensive anti-abortion record.
- Rogers co-sponsored and voted for anti-abortion bills that would have criminalized and banned abortion and celebrated the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
- Rogers co-sponsored four anti-IVF bills and “repeatedly co-sponsored bills” to suspend FDA approval of mifepristone. Rogers refuses to protect IVF in the Senate and won’t answer for his past fetal personhood legislation votes.
Republicans, voters, and newspapers have called out Rogers for being “unfit to serve” because of his “transactional approach to politics [and] his ideological inconsistency.”
- Republicans have called out Rogers for “getting rich cozying up to the Chinese communist party” and trying to “make millions from Saudi companies with nuclear ambitions.”
- Republicans have spoken out against Rogers’ revolving door career where he is “profiting from doing work in areas that they’re overseeing” and “mak[ing] millions.”
- Voters have voiced concerns about Rogers who “has been compromised by the millions he has made since leaving Congress in 2015 working with corporations, including some foreign-based companies.”
- Rogers has been called “unfit to serve” because of his “transactional approach to politics [and] his ideological inconsistency” that “render[s] him a poor fit for this Senate seat.”
WATCH: Mike Rogers cashed in to make millions and sold Michiganders out
See also: Detroit News: Mike Rogers targets China in Senate campaign, but his own connections draw criticism, Business Insider: 9 years through the revolving door: How the GOP’s top Senate recruit in Michigan got rich after leaving Congress, Heartland Signal: Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers connected to Saudi companies, including one with nuclear ambitions, Heartland Signal: Michigan Senate candidate spews anti-China rhetoric despite working to expand Chinese companies and personal wealth, American Journal News: Mike Rogers’ ties to Chinese telecom giants fuel hypocrisy scandal, American Journal News: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers has repeatedly dodged questions about his work at AT&T, The Gander: Mike Rogers tries to distance Senate campaign from his anti-abortion record, The Gander: Republican Senate candidates face backlash over anti-abortion records in Michigan, CNN: Republican candidates downplay past anti-abortion stances ahead of 2024 election.
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