Deadline Detroit | State Rep. Jason Morgan: 'Mike Rogers Thinks You're a Sucker'
Morgan argues that Rogers’s past record and return to the Senate race make him unfit to represent Michigan.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYDeadline Detroit is a local news publisher, but this page is a political opinion piece by an elected Democratic state representative rather than independent reporting. The author is identified, while the article offers limited sourcing for its allegations.
- Source type — Local news publisher; a reasonable baseline for regional coverage.
- Author attribution — The article identifies Jason Morgan as its author and as a Democratic state representative.
- Editorial standards — The page is clearly an opinion piece, not presented as independent reporting.
- Transparency — Several claims about Rogers are asserted without linked records or detailed sourcing in the text.
The piece is clearly attributable advocacy and includes a direct quotation and specific allegations, but offers little supporting documentation, no response from Rogers and no competing perspective.
HOW WE SCORE ↗This is a one-sided opinion argument against Rogers. It provides no response from him or independent examination of the claims.
- Opinion vs reporting — The author advances an explicit argument against a political candidate.
- Counterarguments presented — No opposing response or defense of Rogers’s record is included.
- Loaded language — The article uses strongly condemnatory language about Rogers and his motives.
- Source diversity — The piece relies primarily on the author’s claims and selected quotations.
The article is openly partisan in its criticism of a Republican Senate candidate and uses sharply negative language about his motives and record.
- Language tone — Uses accusatory terms such as “greed” and says Rogers thinks voters are “a sucker.”
- Framing — Frames Rogers’s past work and campaign as evidence that he serves corporate interests rather than Michigan families.
- Source selection — Presents the Democratic author’s criticism without a response or countervailing perspective from Rogers.
Michigan state Rep. Jason Morgan argues that U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers’s past record on campaign finance, lobbying and corporate interests makes him unfit to represent Michigan. Morgan points to his own BRITE Act as an alternative approach to campaign-finance and ethics reform.
In an opinion piece, Morgan says Rogers opposed campaign-finance reforms while in Congress and quotes Rogers comparing corruption to prostitution. Morgan also alleges that Rogers received substantial pharmaceutical-industry donations, opposed lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and later earned money through speaking and consulting work after leaving Congress.
Morgan says he sponsored the BRITE Act in the Michigan House to disclose elected officials’ finances and limit special-interest influence. He argues that Rogers is returning to seek Michigan’s Senate seat and urges voters to reject him.
Community verdict
VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Rogers in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Rogers’s record.
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