LANSING — Today, veteran campaign strategist James Carville called out GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers for his record of serving special interests, predicting that Rogers’ “ties to the pharmaceutical industry” will create “a lot of issues” for his campaign.
Watch the clip here:
- JAMES CARVILLE: I think Rogers has a lot of issues with the pharmaceutical industry, and I think that’s gonna be really front and center. That’s a voting issue in Michigan – I mean, a real voting issue. Whoever runs against him, I think he’s gonna get roughed up pretty good. And I think his ties to the pharmaceutical industry are pretty deep.
As a reminder, Rogers called himself a “champion” for Big Pharma as the industry “bankrolled” his campaigns—and he has the record to prove it:
- In Congress, Rogers was a “leading advocate” for “boost[ing] opioid prescriptions” while he accepted “hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions” from the same pharmaceutical companies now paying billions in national opioid settlements.
- When Mike Rogers was a state legislator, he cosponsored a bill to shield Big Pharma from accountability after their drugs hurt Michiganders, making it harder to sue for opioid epidemic damages.
- Rogers has voted repeatedly against allowing Medicare to negotiate lower costs for prescription drugs, something he has said he is “passionately against” and has derided as “sugar high politics.”
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