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Senate candidate Mike Rogers (Campaign photo)
Last Oct. 6, Detroit Free Press investigative reporter M.L. Elrick wrote a column questioning where Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers lived.
Rogers had purchased a 4,700-square-foot home in Florida six months before Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced in January 2023 that she would not seek re-election. After the announcement, he bought a house in White Lake Township.
Elrick wrote then:
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. That means Rogers could not live there legally. And if he didn't live there, he may have broken the law by using that address to vote.
Now, in a Sunday column, Elrick writes about checking in to see if Rogers ever moved in. After all, his name has surfaced as a possible candidate for the U.S. Senate seat that will be up for grabs in 2026.
Elrick writes:
I don't know where Rogers lays his head every night, but when I rang the doorbell at his finally completed house in White Lake last Tuesday, he answered.
He was polite but seemed a bit peeved. When I explained why I was there, he expressed consternation that his certificate of occupancy was issued on Nov. 6, 2024 — the day after the election...
Sure enough, a temporary certificate of occupancy was issued on Nov. 6, 2024. The permanent certificate was issued on Jan. 10, 2025.
