With each week of his campaign, Rogers has made it clear that Michiganders can’t trust him in the Senate
LANSING — With each week of his campaign, Mike Rogers has made it clear that Michiganders can’t trust him in the Senate. Rogers has a toxic record of supporting dangerous abortion bans, spending a “decade of advocacy” to boost opioid prescriptions, and not even living in the state that he wants to represent.
Michiganders have spoken out about Rogers’ out-of-step agenda. Veterans, union leaders, OB-GYNs, and even Republicans have spoken out about how Rogers’ dangerous agenda and self-serving politics hurts Michigan families.
Here’s what you need to know about Revolving Door Rogers’ rough campaign:
Mike Rogers supports dangerous abortion bans and has an extensive anti-abortion record.
- Rogers “supported a national abortion ban,” “consistently voted” for abortion bans, and co-sponsored four bills that “could restrict or effectively ban IVF.”
- Rogers twice “co-sponsored legislation to withdraw federal approval of the abortion-inducing medication Mifepristone.”
- Rogers wanted to “enshrine fetal personhood in the Constitution,” and he celebrated the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. If Rogers had “lived in Michigan instead of Florida” in 2022, he would have voted against Proposal 3.
Rogers bragged about being a “champion” of big drug companies, and he spent a “decade of advocacy” to “boost opioid prescriptions” as “the nation tumbled into a crushing epidemic it is still battling today.”
- In Congress, Rogers was a “leading advocate for greater access to pain medications, which are typically variations of opioids,” as “prescriptions soared during that decade, but so did addiction and deaths, as the nation tumbled into a crushing epidemic it is still battling today.”
- Rogers “received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the same drug companies that now are paying billions of dollars in national opioid settlements for their roles in causing the epidemic.”
- Rogers is “bankrolled” and “received more than $1 million” from Big Pharma as he “helped block Medicare price negotiation.”
“Issues surrounding the residency of [Rogers]… have lingered for almost as long as he has sought to be Michigan’s next U.S senator.” After lying for months about where he lives, Rogers finally admits that he is “not living at home where he’s registered to vote.”
- After months of lying about exactly where he lived, Rogers has finally admitted that he is not living at the house that he claims to.
- The house that Rogers claimed to live in “had no certificate of occupancy,” and it appears “to be still in a construction phase, with an unfinished deck and a Port-A-Jon next to the driveway.”
- Neighbors in the house that Rogers had claimed to live in with his brother confirmed “he doesn’t live [there]” and said they had “never seen Mike around.”
Rogers sold out Michigan and our national security to enrich himself.
- Rogers abandoned Michigan and walked through the “revolving door” “advising companies on issues he dealt with in Congress” – resulting in an “explosion of immense wealth.”
- After abandoning Michigan for Florida, Rogers sold out to China to make “hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth through companies that have partnered with Chinese firms.”
- “Rogers’s own financial connections to China have created questions,” as Rogers has “personally benefited from his connections to China in opposition to U.S. national security interests.”
- Republicans have attacked Rogers for “getting rich cozying up to the Chinese communist party” and trying to “make millions from Saudi companies with nuclear ambitions” as well as “profiting from doing work in areas that they’re overseeing” and “mak[ing] millions” with his revolving door career by selling out Michigan and our national security to China.
Rogers has enriched himself while supporting policies that would hurt and spike costs for Michiganders.
- Rogers supports repealing the Affordable Care Act which would spike costs for families, slashing Social Security and Medicare which would rip away Michiganders’ hard-earned benefits, and he supports the DeVos-backed plan to siphon money away from public schools.
- Rogers wants to pass tax giveaways that slash taxes for the wealthiest few while Michigan families pay the price.
- Rogers is opposed to a federal grant that saves 700 Michigan automotive jobs, calling it a “bad investment.”
- Rogers backed free trade agreements that hurt Michigan workers, including NAFTA that contributed to Michigan “los[ing] nearly 300,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000.”
Bottom line: Rogers is only in this race for himself even when it hurts working families, and “it is impossible to envision Rogers leading Michigan forward.”
The Detroit Free Press Editorial Board sums it up — “it is impossible to envision Rogers leading Michigan forward.” With Rogers’ “transactional approach to politics, his ideological inconsistency” and his “mishmash of opportunism, fearmongering and shopworn policy platitudes” that “render[s] him a poor fit for this Senate seat,” it’s clear that he is “unfit to serve.”
Veterans, union leaders, OB-GYNs, community leaders, elected officials, and Republicans are slamming Rogers over his record of selling out Michigan which “directly speaks to his willingness to answer whatever call has the most dollar signs in it.”
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 made it clear that he won’t fight for Michiganders, he won’t even stand up for Michigan’s largest city.
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