U.S. Senate candidate and former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers rallies for Donald Trump in Freeland. | Kyle Davidson
More than nine months after registering to vote in Michigan, election officials in Florida say former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-White Lake) is now officially removed from their voting rolls.
Rogers, one of four Republicans seeking the GOP nomination for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat that will open up with the retirement of Democrat Debbie Stabenow, has drawn fire from political rivals as being a “ carpetbagger ” after questions were raised by the Michigan Advance’s reporting in January about where he was actually living.
Although born and raised in Livingston County, which he represented during his six years in the Michigan Senate and 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rogers later moved into a 4,751-square-foot home in Cape Coral, Fla., valued at $1.7 million.
That home, which he still owns, was his official residence until his decision to run for U.S. Senate last year. It was reported in mid-April that Rogers remained registered to vote at the Cape Coral residence, although his campaign said that officials there had failed to act yet on a form filed by Rogers requesting that his name be removed from the Florida voter rolls.