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==Biography== ==Biography==

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Majority Leader Chip Rogers
Georgia Senate Majority Leader
Georgia State Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 1, 2004
GovernorSonny Perdue
Preceded byRobert Lamutt
Georgia House of Representatives
In office
January 1, 2002 – January 1, 2004
Preceded bySteve Stancil
Succeeded byCharlice Byrd
Personal details
Born (1968-05-03) May 3, 1968 (age 56)
NationalityAmerican
Political partyRepublican
SpouseAmy Rogers
ResidenceWoodstock, Georgia Towne Lake, Georgia
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology
J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University
OccupationBorrowing money from Bartow County Bank and keeping it
Handicapping sports events for John Edens 1-900 line
Setting up LLCs to do business with Senate GOP Caucus
WebsiteOfficial site

William "Chip" Rogers, born May 3, 1968, is an American politician in the state of Georgia known as Chip Rogers and a sports handicapper known as Will "The Winner" Rogers. He is a Republican. Rogers was first elected in 2002 to the Georgia General Assembly to the Georgia House of Representatives, in 2004 he was elected to the Georgia State Senate. Rogers was unanimously chosen as the Senate Majority Leader of the U.S. state of Georgia in 2009. His double life as a sports handicapper was revealed in 2012. He had previously contended that he earned his living outside of politics borrowing funds against failed real estate investments. Rogers is the Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, a national association of legislators.

Biography

Education

Chip Rogers graduated from North Gwinnett High School in 1986 and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a certificate in Economics in 1991. He went to attend the Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business, graduating with an MBA.

Family

Chip Rogers and his wife Amy have four children, and are active members of First Baptist Church of Woodstock.

Career Before Politics

The little known details of Chip Rogers' career before politics were published in a May 25, 2012 article which was a collaborative effort by Atlanta Unfiltered and The News Enterprise, (a student reporting initiative of Emory College’s Journalism Program). The Atlanta Unfiltered article is supported by video clips of Rogers and court documents that are available via links contained in the article. On the day the article was published, WSB TV 2 in Atlanta broadcast it as its top story on the evening news, including interviews with Rogers and the article's author. See: http://www.atlantaunfiltered.com/2012/05/25/playing-the-odds-the-rise-of-sen-chip-rogers/

According to the Atlanta Unfiltered article, before Chip Rogers was a politician, he was a sports handicapper, operating most frequently under the name “Will ‘The Winner.’ Multiple video clips of Rogers as "Will the Winner" are posted on the website. The article states that Rogers also operated under the names Atlanta Assassin and the Mobile Man. By the time Rogers ran for the House in 2002, "he’d used those monikers over the course of a decade as a sports handicapper in recorded phone messages and cable TV infomercials."

Rogers worked for and later shared offices with John Edens, a gambling industry entrepreneur. In the mid-1990s, Edens temporarily housed what he now acknowledges was an illegal sportsbook operation outside of Atlanta. Rogers and Edens maintained business and personal relations, culminating in a 2009 deal in which Rogers and then-state Rep. Tom Graves transferred ownership of a beat-up northwest Georgia motel to John Edens. Court and property records show they sold the property, for which they’d paid $1.5 million two years earlier, to Edens for $10,000. That transaction later made headlines when Rogers argued that the deal absolved him from having to pay off a defaulted $2.2 million bank loan from Bartow County Bank. After Edens took over the motel, Bartow County Bank sued Rogers and Graves in 2010, claiming the pair had defaulted on the $2.2 million loan they used to buy the inn. Rogers said he was no longer responsible for the debt but Rogers and Graves later settled the matter, agreeing to pay back nearly $1.2 million.

House of Representatives (2003–2005)

Chip 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. The seat represented the citizens in the southwest corner of Cherokee County that encompasses Woodstock, Towne Lake, and parts of Acworth.

Georgia Senate

After two years in the State House, Representative 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. Currently, Chip Rogers represents south Cherokee and parts of northeast Cobb County and has not faced major opposition since his 2004 primary.

In 2011, Rogers received $10,771 in gifts from lobbyists, one of the highest sums for a General Assembly member. He has indicated that he will cease accepting anything from lobbyists in 2012.

Committee assignments

Chip Rogers serves on the following committees in the Georgia State Senate.

    • 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–present)

In November 2008, Senator Rogers was unanimously elected Senate Majority Leader for the Republican Party.

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

References

  1. Georgia Election Results. Official Results of the August 20, 2002 Primary Election – Senate. Sos.georgia.gov. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.
  2. ^ Georgia Election Results. Official Results of the July 20, 2004 Primary Election. Sos.georgia.gov. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.
  3. Board of Directors – ALEC. ALEC. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.
  4. ^ "Senator Chip Rogers, Senate District 21" (PDF). Georgia State Senate. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  5. "Project Vote Smart – Senator Chip Rogers – Biography". Votesmart.org. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
  6. Georgia Election Results. Official Results of the August 20, 2002 Primary Election – House. Sos.georgia.gov. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.
  9. Joyner, Chris (April 9, 2012). "Gifts continue to rain on lawmakers". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  10. – Get informed, get involved. Congress.org. Retrieved on 2012-05-27.

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Burt Jones (R)
President pro tempore
John F. Kennedy (R)
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