LANSING — As he takes the stage today, Mike Rogers won’t be able to hide from his extensive record of enriching himself and his wealthy special interest backers while Michiganders pay the price. Rogers abandoned Michigan, passed “through the ‘revolving door,’ advising companies on issues he dealt with in Congress,” and made “good on his quest to get rich” by using “the business relationships that Rogers engaged in over the last decade as a prominent ex-lawmaker.”
Rogers continues to play partisan games at the expense of America’s safety and security. Rogers “absolutely” had a problem with the “most conservative border bill in decades,” claiming that the bipartisan border bill “didn’t correct any of the problems.” In reality, the bipartisan border bill would have strengthened our border and stopped the flow of fentanyl and was backed by border patrol agents and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Here’s what you need to know about Mike Rogers:
Rogers’ “revolving door” career led to an “explosion of wealth” while Michiganders paid the price:
- 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 has not had a house in Michigan for the majority of his campaign.
- 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 has shown he will do anything to enrich himself – including selling out our national security:
- Rogers worked for companies with ties to American adversaries that threaten our national security. These foreign ties helped increase Rogers’ personal wealth up to twenty times.
- 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.”
Here’s what you need to know on Rogers putting politics over Michiganders and opposing the bipartisan border legislation:
- Brian Kilmeade Show: Kilmeade: “Did you have a problem with the bipartisan bill, by the way?” … Rogers: “I mean, on immigration, absolutely.”
- MIRS: Rogers: “And what that bill did, is it didn’t correct any of the problems…”
- Washington Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell: Bipartisan border proposal “the most conservative border bill in decades.”
- CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez: Bipartisan border proposal “would be one of the toughest border and immigration laws in modern history.”
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, Michigan Independent: Bankrolled by pharmaceuticals, Mike Rogers helped block Medicare price negotiation, Heartland Signal: Michigan Senate candidate spews anti-China rhetoric despite working to expand Chinese companies and personal wealth, The Gander: Mike Rogers voted against reining in special interests. Now he’s running for US Senate, 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, American Journal News: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers worked for organization that threatened privacy rights
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