MICHIGAN — Former Congressman Mike Rogers is facing questions about his residency once again. Rogers, a retired member of Congress, is known to own a mansion in Florida. Despite that fact, Rogers in running for a Senate seat in Michigan after her purchased a small home in Michigan.
M.L. Elrick writing for the Detroit Free Press:
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.
In a press release, The Michigan Democratic Party challenged the former member of Congress with a series of questions:
- In August 2024, your campaign told the Detroit News that you “now reside in White Lake Township” and referred to the Genoa Township home as somewhere you “previously resided.” If you were no longer living in Genoa Township in August, and you were not living in the unfinished White Lake Township house – as your campaign confirmed – where have you been living?
- Your campaign told Detroit News, Bridge Michigan, and Michigan Advance that “Rogers is living at the Genoa Township home,” but neighbors say they have never seen you there. Where have you been living, and why did you lie to multiple reporters?
- Why is your campaign being “mighty cagey about the question of just where Rogers has been staying” and “refus[ing] multiple requests to discuss the matter?”
- How do you respond to Michiganders who say they “don’t like it… not one bit” about the fact that you are lying about living in Michigan?
- Are you looking forward to the end of your campaign so you can go back to your “posh home in Cape Coral, Florida, worth $1.6 million” with “five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a formal dining room, 14-foot high ceilings, a tile roof, a balcony overlooking the water, and a ‘HUGE POOL with TWO SPAs?’”
The question for voters is whether they want to elect a lifelong Michigander or someone who left Michigan and is now only back to run of elected office.
