LANSING — Following Mike Rogers’ Senate campaign announcement, Chair of the Michigan Democratic Party Curtis Hertel released the following statement:
“Mike Rogers has shown Michiganders time and again that he only fights for himself: he abandoned Michigan for a million-dollar mansion in Florida more than a decade ago, walked through the ‘revolving door’ to get rich and cash out at Michiganders’ expense, and his threats to Social Security and support for reckless tariffs will spike costs for Michigan families. Michiganders will once again see Rogers for who he is – a self-serving politician who is only ever looking out for himself, and they’ll reject him again just like they did in 2024.”
What to Know About Mike Rogers:
Rogers would spike costs for Michiganders by threatening Social Security and pushing reckless tariffs to pay for tax giveaways for millionaires:
- Rogers supports Trump’s chaotic tariffs, which will raise costs on nearly everything Michiganders buy.
- Rogers supports ripping away benefits from Michigan seniors and spiking costs by slashing Social Security and transforming Medicare into a voucher program. Rogers also backed a plan to privatize Social Security, which would have decimated retirees’ savings during the 2008 recession.
- Rogers has voted against measures to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
- Rogers voted to slash taxes for millionaires like Betsy DeVos and has taken tens of thousands of dollars from the DeVos family.
Rogers abandoned Michigan and walked through the revolving door to enrich himself by selling Michiganders out:
- Rogers abandoned Michigan to buy a million-dollar mansion in Florida after his “explosion of immense wealth” – and he did not have a house in Michigan while running for Senate in 2024.
- When he announced he was leaving Congress, Rogers indicated it was so he could pursue “something more lucrative” and “earn considerable amounts of money.”
- In the nine years after leaving Congress, Rogers “made good on his quest to get rich” through paid speeches and cushy corporate gigs in industries he was responsible for regulating in Congress.
- In Congress, Rogers was a “leading advocate” to “boost opioid prescriptions” and called himself a “champion” for Big Pharma as he “received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the same drug companies that are now paying billions of dollars in national opioid settlements for their roles in causing the epidemic.”
Rogers has a decades-long record of voting for dangerous abortion bans:
- Rogers “supported a national abortion ban” and he 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.
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