WHO’S RUNNING FOR U.S. SENATE IN MICHIGAN: FORMER REP MIKE ROGERS JUMPS IN

Written By Chris Gustafson

September 6, 2023

LANSING — Nine years after he left elected office, former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is joining a growing field of candidates running to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

Rogers, a Republican from Livingston County who represented Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House through 2014, announced his new Senate campaign Wednesday in an online video.

“I thought I put politics behind me, but like you, I know something is broken,” Rogers said. “America under (President Joe) Biden and his cronies is going in the wrong direction.”

The former FBI special agent who chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence also bashed China for “stealing intellectual property and jobs” and said he wanted to help “get government out of the way” in Washington D.C.

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