Mike Rogers Takes Tens Of Thousands From Utility Monopoly Hiking Rates On Michigan Families While Continuing To Deny Investments In Reliability

Over 300,000 Michiganders Lost Power Due To Storm While DTE Continues To Not Invest In Improving Reliability, Doesn’t Pay Dime In Federal Income Tax But Demands $474M Rate Hike

Mike Rogers Has Raked In Cash From DTE, Declined Interview With Washington Post About Soaring Utility Bills

MICHIGAN – Following last night’s major storms that rolled across Michigan, over 300,000 Michiganders lost power, and over 200,000 still remain without power – and may not get it back for days. 

DTE—Michigan’s greedy utility monopoly—has raised rates over 50% higher than inflation and is demanding $474 million in rate hikes on top of the $242 million yearly increases that were approved this spring. 

Despite demanding hundreds of millions of dollars more from Michigan ratepayers and making more than a billion in profit, DTE continues to pay zero dollars in federal income taxes and doles out cash to corrupt politicians to keep the system broken—including Mike Rogers. 

Mike Rogers has received $64k from DTE, on top of over $10 million in contributions from oil and gas interests to his campaigns and political committees—while Abdul takes no corporate PAC money. 

“The only reason DTE gets away with failing us like this while raising our rates EVERY year is because they buy off corrupt politicians like Mike Rogers. In his case, it’s $64,000,” said Abdul.  

Rogers also has refused interviews with media outlets to talk about his career shilling for energy companies and spiking costs for Michiganders—including for an article on soaring energy costs posted this morning in the Washington Post.

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