Former Georgia State Senator Chip Rogers a PLAYER. It’s a real fascinating story of a well connected Georgia politician.
This is the person that in 2007 that took out a 2.3 million dollar loan to refurbish an interstate motel in Northwest Georgia. The plan did not go well…
Five years later it appears U.S. Rep. Tom Graves and state Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers will have to pay back only about half that debt, according to public records examined by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Experts say the FDIC, the federal agency that insures bank deposits, will be on the hook for most of the loss.
For Graves and Rogers, tea party favorites and champions of fiscal responsibility, the resolution of their failed business venture opens them up to charges of hypocrisy.
“They may oppose bailouts, but it looks like they are getting one themselves,” said Tony Plath, a national banking expert and finance professor at UNC-Charlotte…
Court documents show that Graves and Rogers were struggling to make payments almost immediately after they signed the loan documents with Bartow County Bank in 2007.
Soon, Bartow County Bank had joined the ranks of Georgia banks shuttered by federal regulators
Rogers was the state Senate Majority Leader that had the most informative meeting in 2012 regarding Agenda 21, a nonbinding UN agreement that commits member nations to promote sustainable development …
In the eyes of conservative activists, Agenda 21 is a nefarious plot that includes forcibly relocating non-urban-dwellers and prescribing mandatory contraception as a means of curbing population growth. The invitation to the Georgia state Senate event noted the presentation would explain: “How pleasant sounding names are fostering a Socialist plan to change the way we live, eat, learn, and communicate to ‘save the earth.'”
Comments made in this meeting included how this plan will implemented by President Obama using the Delphi Technique…
They do that by a process known as the Delphi technique. The Delphi technique was developed by the Rand Corporation during the Cold War as a mind-control technique. It’s also known as “consensive process.” But basically the goal of the Delphi technique is to lead a targeted group of people to a pre-determined outcome while keeping the illusion of being open to public input.
That’s right, MIND CONTROL. After this little afternoon of insanity, in a possible unrelated circumstance, Chip Rogers withdrew his re-election bid for the leadership position.
Well, Chip Rogers leads a charmed life, I tell you. Our state just can’t let good talent go. So, Governor Nathan Deal found Chip Rogers a perfect position: an Executive Producer at Georgia Public Broadcasting. He had a really strong resume for the position…
Rogers appeared on cable television broadcasts as Will “The Winner” Rogers and other monikers to predict the outcomes of upcoming football games to help sports bettors before he became state Senate majority leader.
On one cable TV show, Rogers allegedly urged bettors to dial a pay-per-call number for his predictions, which he claimed had an 80 percent success rate.
Did you know that the new position created for Rogers pays more than what our Governor pulls down a year?
A veteran employee of Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta has quit in protest over the hiring of former State Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers at GPB, at double and triple the salary of others in similar positions there…
Employees have been furloughed and laid off, as many of their jobs are being out-sourced and eliminated.
And yet Rogers began work this week at GPB headquarters, on 14th Street NW (Atlanta), as an executive producer, for $150,000 a year.
And he used to own an interest in a little radio in Cartersville, GA in Bartow County. Except now, he has regained his interest in the radio station without filing proper notification to the FCC…
The station, tiny WYXC-AM, is at the center of an ongoing drama that’s spilled over into Bartow County courts. Current operators John and Brandi Underwood filed suit last month, alleging their partner Greg Detscher had surreptitiously bought the station and kicked them out of the premises.
FCC records show WYXC-AM in Cartersville is licensed to Clarion Communications Inc., which bought the station in 2006 from Rogers, who financed $190,000 of the deal. Ownership records from 2011, the most recent on file with the FCC, name Cartersville businessman Chuck Shiflett and former Adairsville City Councilman Tommy Young as equal partners in Clarion.
It’s unclear when Young, a former Adairsville city councilman, returned his half-interest to Rogers. In December 2012, Rogers signed the new management agreement with Detscher and the Underwoods on behalf of Beechwood Services Inc., identified as the parent company of Clarion Communications. Rogers has listed Beechwood as his wife’s business in financial disclosures filed as a legislator, most recently for 2011.
An FCC spokeswoman confirmed last week that it had received no notice of any change in WYXC’s controlling interest. The station’s public file, which licensees must make available to anyone wanting to see it, contains no such notice.
Georgia Public Broadcasting, which requires that employees get written permission for outside employment, also has no written disclosure of Rogers’ ownership or affiliation with outside media outlets.
Well, I doubt much will come from GPB. It will be interesting if he can weasel his way out of this with the FCC. I mean, after all, he is the well connected Chip Rogers with BIG COJONES…
Sounds like Georgians need to stand their ground in opposition to these charlatans.