Mike Rogers
Former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers moved back from Florida to Michigan last summer after U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced her retirement in early 2023. In August 2023, he announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate.
Detroit Free Press investigative columnnist M.L. Elrick writes that Rogers' residency, and accusations of carpetbagging, have been an issue since he moved back.
He goes on to write:
I don't know where Mike Rogers lives, but it's not where he's registered to vote.
Rogers, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, changed his voter registration on July 2 to a home in White Lake Township that is under construction. A month later, he used the White Lake address to vote (presumably, for himself) in the four-way race for the GOP nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
There's just one problem: The house did not — and still does not — have a certificate of occupancy.
Elrick goes on to write:
The Rogers campaign is mighty cagey about the question of just where Rogers has been staying, beyond saying it's in White Lake Township. They refused multiple requests to discuss the matter, issuing only a carefully-worded statement blaming everyone from White Lake officials, to the housing crisis, to the media, but offering few concrete answers. (Campaign spokesman Chris Gustafson also faulted "constant bureaucratic delays during the construction," but doesn't blame Rogers' brother and erstwhile landlord Bill, who was one of the contractors building the lakefront home and who, as Genoa Township supervisor, presumably knows his way around local government.
Rogers, 61, a former FBI agent, served in Congress from 2001 to 2015.
