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Former Michigan Republican Congressman Mike Rogers brought his campaign for the U.S. Senate to the Upper Peninsula Tuesday with stops in Escanaba.
Rogers, who served in the U.S. House from 2001 to 2015 and was chairman of the powerful House Intelligence Committee, is running for the Senate seat that will be vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow, who is retiring after next year.
Incidentally, Rogers won the House seat that Stabenow held up until 2000, when she ran for and won her first term in the U.S. Senate.
Rogers told RRN News on Tuesday that he’s proven that he’s “ready to lead from Day One” should he be elected next year, drawing on his seven terms in the House. He talked with voters at Escanaba’s Drifter’s Family Restaurant on what he calls his “Kitchen Table Tour”.
“It’s just to get a sense of what people are thinking about, what they’re worried about,” Rogers said. “How they think the country needs to change. It’s amazing. People definitely think we’re on the wrong track, and we need new leadership in Washington, D.C. We’re pleased with the response we’ve gotten, everywhere from Mackinac County to Houghton to Escanaba to Marquette to everywhere in between.”
Rogers says the federal government needs to be totally restructured, and made smaller, espcially in the Capitol itself.
“The average salary of a federal employee inside the Beltway has exceeded $100,000,” Rogers said. “That means that 20 Michigan citizens have to pay for that one federal employee. It’s not sustainable. We cannot continue to borrow money that we don’t have, and hand it out like candy, and wonder why people are frustrated, both with their government, and the fact that their gas price and grocery price have gone up.”
Rogers wasn’t the only Republican to make news on Tuesday, as former Detroit Police Chief James Craig announced that he, too, will run for Stabenow’s seat.
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