Ron French: “It’s hard to deny that Congressman Rogers was definitely involved… in the opioid crisis.”
LANSING — It’s been one week since Bridge Michigan’s bombshell report exposed Mike Rogers’ “decade of advocacy” urging “opioid access in Congress” as “the nation tumbled into a crushing epidemic it is still battling today,” yet Rogers has remained silent on his record as a “champion” for the big drug companies responsible for the crisis.
Bridge Michigan reporter Ron French pointed out that “it’s hard to deny” that Rogers was “definitely involved… in the opioid crisis.” But for a week, Rogers has refused to take accountability and “declined to say whether Congress played a role in the crisis.”
Here are five key questions Rogers refuses to answer:
- Did you refuse to identify big drug companies as responsible for the opioid crisis, including ones now paying Michigan millions of dollars in settlements for their role in the epidemic, because you received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from those same companies?
- How do you claim not to have known about your close ties to Big Pharma and the drug companies fueling the crisis when you were identified as one of the “principal beneficiaries of pharma’s largesse?”
- How do you deny that the lack of regulation by Congress is part of what fueled the opioid crisis when you were introducing bills to fuel the crisis pushed forward by groups bankrolled by Big Pharma?
- How do you deny any responsibility when experts say you directly “contributed to the crisis” and could have done more to temper the opioid epidemic?
- Do you regret your self-professed work as a “champion” for opioid manufacturers and distributors for drugs that have killed tens of thousands of Michiganders?
See also: Bridge Michigan: Mike Rogers vows to fight drug war, but urged opioid access in Congress
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