Six roll calls to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran. James voted no on all six, the last on September 15. That week Michigan regular went from $4.31 to $4.89 and diesel set a record. Then he went on the radio to talk about the affordability crisis.
Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
With Michigan gas near $5 in large part because of an Iran war he called a 'win-win-win,' Mike Rogers is calling for a gas tax holiday. As a state senator he voted to raise the gas tax, and he once said suspending it was 'not a foolproof method.'
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After leaving Congress, Mike Rogers moved to a $1.7 million Cape Coral estate, registered to vote in Florida and claimed a tax break on it as his primary residence.
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
Rogers announced 'Students for Mike Rogers.' One member had written 'Send them to North Korea?' in reply to a post about 'these people'; another had told Facebook that the answer to a leaked chat praising Hitler was 'Loyalty is the only political virtue that matters.' His campaign's response was to blame Democrats.
An outside group is spending nearly $1 million telling Michigan voters that Bill Huizenga took on congressional stock trading. His own disclosures show Johnson Controls stock through his first seven years on the Financial Services Committee, a purchase reported 57 days late in 2021, and a vote against making members sell what they already own.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
Barrett's ad says he doesn't 'take a dime' from health insurance companies. His own FEC reports show he refunded one insurer PAC and kept two others. And his votes let premium help expire and cut Medicaid for up to 14,621 people in his district.
