Michigan Democrats launch ad tying Mike Rogers to Moroun family, opposition to Gordie Howe Bridge

[marmar]

(Detroit Metro Times) Michigan Democrats are launching their first digital ad of the 2026 U.S. Senate race, targeting Republican candidate Mike Rogers for supporting efforts to block the Gordie Howe International Bridge.

The 60-second ad, titled “A Bridge Too Far,” will begin running Monday on streaming platforms across Michigan. The ad accuses Rogers of siding with wealthy donors who sought to block the publicly owned bridge, which is expected to boost trade, ease congestion at the border, and create jobs when it opens.

The ad comes two weeks after Metro Times revealed Rogers’s long relationship with the billionaire Moroun family, which owns the competing Ambassador Bridge.

The ad references recent President Donald Trump’s threat to block the $4.7 billion bridge from opening, and it criticizes Rogers for defending those remarks. At one point, the narrator says Rogers supported efforts to derail the new crossing, even though promised to strengthen supply chains and expand trade between Michigan and Canada. .................(more)

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/politics-elections/michigan-democrats-launch-ad-tying-mike-rogers-to-moroun-family-opposition-to-gordie-howe-bridge/

[GiqueCee]

1. The Moroun clan...

... are billionaires. ONE billion's a big number. If you tried to count to one billion, it would take you nearly fifty years. If you could count one number per second, with NO sleep and NO potty breaks, you might do it in 32 years or so, but you wouldn't feel all that great afterward.
So, with a clearer understanding of the vastness of the very concept of a billion, and translate that into dollars – and the Morouns have a good deal more than just ONE billion – how obscenely greedy does one have to be to get one's bloomers in a bunch over another bridge that benefits everyone, especially one that didn't cost one a single dime? PSSST! The Canadians paid for the ALL of the Gordie Howe Bridge, so once again I say, FUCK Donald Trump, and all his billionaire buddies, sideways.
The sooner he's dead, the better off the entire world will be, and America just might be able to come back from the brink of destruction. Particular emphasis on the word, "might".

[DownriverDem]

2. Not only that

Mike Rogers lives in Florida now.