Chip Rogers

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Chip Rogers
Member of the Georgia Senate
from the district
In office
2005–2012
Preceded by Robert Lamutt
Succeeded by Brandon Beach[1]
Personal details
Born (1968-05-03) May 3, 1968
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Amy Rogers
Alma mater Georgia Institute of Technology
J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University

William "Chip" Rogers, born May 3, 1968, is a former American politician from the state of Georgia. He is a Republican and was first elected in 2002 to the Georgia General Assembly to the Georgia House of Representatives,[2] in 2004 he was elected to the Georgia State Senate.[3] Rogers was unanimously chosen as the Senate Majority Leader of the U.S. state of Georgia in 2009.[4]

In November, 2012, Rogers resigned his position as Senate Majority Leader, and in December, he resigned his position in the state Senate.[5] He has taken an executive position at Georgia Public Broadcasting.[5]

Biography

Education

Rogers graduated from North Gwinnett High School in 1986 and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a certificate in Economics in 1991.[6] He then attended the Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business, graduating with an MBA.[6][7]

Family

Rogers and his wife Amy have four children. Rogers is a Christian and attends First Baptist Church of Woodstock.[6]

Career before politics

Before entering politics, Rogers worked for a sports handicapping service, using the name “Will 'The Winner' Rogers”. He encouraged bettors to dial a "pay-per-call number" and claimed to have an 80% success rate for his predictions. A CEO of a sports pick firm said Rogers was in the “kind of seedy end of the industry.” and "If that’s the biggest skeleton he has in his closet, I say elect him president of the United States.” [8] Rogers said the media stories on the topic were "gutter politics"; he said the work was scripted, and that he was not a sports handicapper.[9][10] The sports pick firm CEO said that Rogers' claim that he was simply paid to read a script was "stretching the truth. But I know where he’s been as far as not having total editorial control of your content."[8]

Oglethorpe Inn loan

Rogers and Tom Graves were sued by Bartow County Bank for a defaulted $2.2 million loan on the Oglethorpe Inn, They had transferred ownership of the hotel to John Edens, but remained as guarantors for the loan. Rogers and Graves settled the matter out of court, with the bank reducing the value of their guaranty to $1.2 million. The Bartow County Bank's former chairman said their acts "contributed significantly" to his bank's eventual failure.[11]

House of Representatives (2003–2005)

Rogers first ran for office in 2002, winning a majority of the votes in a four-person primary for an open seat in the Georgia House of Representatives.[12] The seat represented the citizens in the southwest corner of Cherokee County that encompasses Woodstock, Towne Lake, and parts of Acworth.[13]

Georgia Senate

After two years in the State House, Rogers ran to replace State Senator Robert Lamutt, who had decided to run for an open Congressional seat vacated by then Congressman Johnny Isakson. Rogers routed the early front runner and lawyer Craig Dowdy in the Republican primary, taking 81% of the vote.[3]

In 2011, Rogers received $10,771 from lobbyists. He has indicated that he has now given everything back, saying "I spent considerable amounts of money paying people for things I never asked for" and that he wanted a "zero" on his lobbyist balance sheet."[14]


Committee assignments

Rogers served on the following committees in the Georgia State Senate:[15]

  • Administrative Affairs
  • Appropriations – Ex Officio
  • Assignments
  • Banking and Financial Institutions
  • Economic Development
  • Finance – Secretary
  • Insurance and Labor
  • Reapportionment and Redistricting
  • Rules – Ex Officio

Georgia Senate Majority Leader (2009–2012)

In November 2008, Senator Rogers was unanimously elected Senate Majority Leader for the Republican Party.[6] He was unanimously re-elected in November 2010.

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
In October 2012, Rogers held an educational meeting about Agenda 21 for Senators and staffers, at the request of constituents, to discuss "how regionalism and public private partnerships are tearing down constitutionally limited self-government and free market economics." A presentation by Field Searcy at the meeting stated those implementing Agenda 21 get public buy-in to a predetermined outcome "by a process known as the Delphi Technique ... developed by the Rand Corporation during the Cold War as a mind control technique. It's also known as the Consensus Process. But basically the goal of the Delphi technique is to lead a targeted group of people to a pre-determined outcome…".[16][17] The presentation also compared President Barack Obama's Rural Council to Joseph Stalin's 5 Year Plans and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward.[18]

On December 4, Rogers announced he was stepping down from the Senate to take an executive position with Georgia Public Broadcasting.[5][19] Rogers' appointment to this position, which he described as his 'dream job', caused controversy; a senior GPB producer resigned shortly afterwards, saying that Rogers' $150,000 salary was out of scale for his experience and inappropriate in view of ongoing budget cuts.[20] In September 2013, it emerged that he had been the owner of Georgia radio station WYXC[21] since January 2012, although the FCC had not been informed of this.[22][23]

Awards and recognitions

Rogers has been recognized as a national leader for education reform by the Foundation for Excellence in Education[24] and Students First.[25] He is also a multiple winner of the Golden Peach Award given for support of digital learning in Georgia Public Schools [26][27]

Electoral history

Georgia House of Representative Primary Election, 2002
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chip Rogers 3,447 53.70
Republican Larry Singleton 1,342 20.90
Republican Dawn Marr 1,181 18.40
Republican Jerry Lanham 451 7.00
Georgia House of Representative General Election, 2002
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chip Rogers 10,034 81.20
Democratic Jerry Moore 2,318 18.80
Georgia State Senate Primary Election, 2004
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chip Rogers 15,818 81.40
Republican Craig Dowdy 3,625 18.60
Georgia State Senate General Election, 2004
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chip Rogers 61,810 100.00
Democratic None 0 0.0
Georgia State Senate General Election, 2006
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chip Rogers 40,417 100.00
Democratic None 0 0.0
Georgia State Senate General Election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chip Rogers 61,991 76.70
Democratic Carlos Lopez 18,776 23.20
Georgia State Senate General Election, 2010
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chip Rogers
Democratic Patrick Thompson

See also

References

  1. ↑ Torres, Kristina (9 January 2013). "Voters replace Chip Rogers, but two races headed to Feb. 5 runoff". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 29 January 2013. 
  2. ↑ Georgia Election Results. Official Results of the August 20, 2002 Primary Election – Senate. Sos.georgia.gov. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Georgia Election Results. Official Results of the July 20, 2004 Primary Election. Sos.georgia.gov. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.
  4. ↑ "Chance takes over majority leader in Senate, Rogers out". Cherokee Ledger-News. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Chip Rogers leaving state senate". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 2012-12-04. Retrieved 2012-12-05. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Senator Chip Rogers, Senate District 21". Georgia State Senate. Retrieved 2011-07-09. 
  7. ↑ "Project Vote Smart – Senator Chip Rogers – Biography". Votesmart.org. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Jim Galloway, "Handicapping an unasked-for defense of Chip Rogers, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6 June 2012
  9. ↑ New details show greater depth of Chip Rogers' role in... | www.wsbtv.com
  10. ↑ Rebecca Johnston, "Rogers calls media reports on his time on sports show ‘gutter politics", The Cherokee Tribune, 30 May 2012
  11. ↑ "In failed hotel venture, Ga. Republicans appear to cut loan nearly in half". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2012-06-06. 
  12. ↑ Georgia Election Results. Official Results of the August 20, 2002 Primary Election – House. Sos.georgia.gov. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.
  13. ↑ Track Legislation
  14. ↑ Joyner, Chris (April 9, 2012). "Gifts continue to rain on lawmakers". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 
  15. ↑ – Get informed, get involved. Congress.org. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.
  16. ↑ The Marietta Daily Journal - Rogers defends Agenda 21 session
  17. ↑ http://vimeo.com/53363841 Better Georgia video of the presentation
  18. ↑ http://www.indefenseofliberty.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/UN-Agenda-21-Global-to-Local-Freedom21-v6.pdf Field Searcy's Agenda 21 Presentation
  19. ↑ Galloway, Jim (23 January 2013). "Your daily jolt: GPB producer resigns over hiring of Chip Rogers". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 29 January 2013. 
  20. ↑ http://www.11alive.com/news/article/273851/40/TV-producer-resigns-in-protest-over-hiring-of-Chip-Rogers-at-GPB
  21. ↑ http://www.newstalk1270.com/
  22. ↑ http://atlantaunfiltered.com/2013/09/11/gpbs-rogers-took-back-radio-license-without-telling-fcc/
  23. ↑ http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/23427750/report-chip-rogers-didnt-disclose-radio-station-ownership-to-gpb
  24. ↑ http://excelined.org/team/chip-rogers-2/
  25. ↑ http://www.studentsfirstga.com/pac/georgia/pages/sen-chip-rogers
  26. ↑ http://www.mdjonline.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Rogers+proposes+expanding+school+vouchers%20&id=11368810
  27. ↑ http://www.senatorchiprogers.com/bio.php

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Preceded by
Tommy Williams		 Georgia Senate Majority Leader
2009 – 2012 		Succeeded by
Ronnie Chance
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