Reason #4 Michiganders Can’t Trust Rogers: Mike Rogers Lied for a Year and a Half About Where He Lives

After lying for months about where he lives, Mike Rogers finally admits he does not live in the house that he claimed he did.

LANSING — With four days left until Election Day, Mike Rogers has given Michiganders countless reasons not to trust him to represent Michigan in the Senate. After lying for months about where he lives, Mike Rogers finally admits that he is not living at the house that he claims to. 

The house that Rogers claimed to live in “had no certificate of occupancy,” and it appears “to be still in a construction phase, with an unfinished deck and a Port-A-Jon next to the driveway.” 

Reason #4: Rogers is “not living at home where he’s registered to vote” after lying for months about where he lives:

• July 2023: Rogers moved to Michigan to run for Senate and left his “4,751-square-foot home in Cape Coral valued at $1.7 million [that] was his official residence until his decision to run for U.S. Senate.” 

• July 2023: Rogers “purchased a one-bedroom, 728-square-foot home in White Lake Township” “soon after he announced his senatorial bid and said he had moved back to Michigan from Florida.” 

• January 2024: The Michigan Advance reported that Rogers’ campaign confirmed he had not been living at the White Lake Township house, citing “pending renovations” as the excuse for why they had been lying about where he lived – despite the fact that “the real estate listing for the White Lake property shows the home was completely remodeled by the previous owner in 2022 just prior to its sale.”
• May 2024: The Michigan Advance reported the White Lake house had been “demolished” and that “the old house was gone” with “no workers or active construction visible.” Rogers’ campaign lied to Michigan Advance, and said Rogers “still lived at the Genoa Township residence, which was technically owned by his sister-in-law.”

• May 2024: Rogers’ campaign lied to Bridge Michigan, and told them that “Rogers is living at the Genoa Township home.”

• August 2024: Rogers’ campaign lied to the Detroit News and said that he was living in the White Lake Township house and was no longer staying with his brother in Genoa Township. 

• October 6, 2024: The Detroit Free Press reports that Rogers “does not live in the house” in White Lake Township as the house “did not — and still does not — have a certificate of occupancy.” Rogers’ campaign is “mighty cagey” about where Rogers lives and “refused multiple requests to discuss the matter.” Neighbors in the house he claims to live in with his brother confirmed “he doesn’t live [there]” and said they had “never seen Mike around.”  

• October 8, 2024: The Detroit News confirmed that Rogers is not living at the house that he claims to.  

Read what they’re saying about Mike Rogers “mislead[ing] voters” about where he lives: 

• Congresswoman Haley Stevens: “Where is Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood? “Mike Rogers has spent the last decade not serving Michiganders but in Florida enriching himself. We need a Senator who prioritizes Michigan jobs, domestic supply chains, and stands up for our auto industry and that Senator is Elissa Slotkin.”

• Sen. Dayna Polehanki: “For a year and a half, the entire time he’s been running for Senate, Rogers has lied about where he lives.”

• Sen. Jeremy Moss: “People are kind of sick that we’re getting, kind of, even to more politics as usual, and that some of these things are becoming the norm. Again as I said, I think it’s ridiculous that now we’re going to have to ask candidates, do they live here?”

• Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou: “Mike Rogers has continued to mislead voters, stating he lives in Michigan while having no certificate of occupancy in the home he claims to reside in. Michiganders deserve to be represented in the Senate by a candidate that lives in Michigan, and will reflect the values of our great state. Without a doubt, that candidate is Elissa Slotkin.”

• Rep. Julie Brixie: “Rogers is wrong for Michigan. By this time next month, he can stop crashing with family and go back to working on his tan in his giant Florida mansion.” 

• Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum: “This situation leaves election administrators and certainly voters with a lot of questions that need answered. And Mike Rogers should probably answer those, so that the public can make an informed decision about whether he would adequately represent Michigan if he proves victorious in the November general election.”

• Rachel Maddow: “All this is turning out to be a problem for U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers. According to the Detroit Free Press, the house that Mike Rogers is still building on that spot isn’t done.”

• ML Elrick: “Nobody’s seen him, because I would think the first of people you would meet, is your neighbors and say ‘Hey, I’m Mike Rogers. I’m living at my brother’s house. I hope I can get your vote.’ So you know this would be easily cleared up if his campaign would tell us where he’s been staying.”

• ML Elrick: “I think a question I’ve heard from a lot of readers, which is a fair one, which is ‘If he loses the Senate race, will he move back into that house? Or will he go back to Florida because he hasn’t put that home up for sale?’”

See also: Detroit Free Press: Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers’ neighborhoods have everything but Mr. Rogers, Detroit News: Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers not living at home where he’s registered to vote, Michigan Advance: Rogers says he didn’t violate voter registration law he helped to pass, MSNBC: A key GOP Senate candidate faces new ‘carpetbagger’ accusations, MLive: Questions about Mike Rogers’ residency surface: report, Michigan Advance: Where is Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood?, Michigan Advance: A new house is being built for Mr. Rogers in his not-yet-neighborhood, Newsweek: Michigan Republican Candidate Caught Living in Florida, MSNBC: In Senate races, GOP haunted anew with ‘candidate quality’ issues, WKAR: Dems raise Rogers residency concerns as candidates debate. 

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