34 Facts About Chip Rogers

Chip Rogers is a Republican and was first elected in 2002 to the Georgia House of Representatives, in 2004 he was elected to the Georgia State Senate.

Chip Rogers was elected Senate Majority Leader in 2008 and again in 2010.

In November 2012 Chip Rogers resigned his position as Senate Majority Leader, and in December, he resigned his position in the state Senate.

Chip Rogers took up the position of host and Executive Producer of the statewide Georgia Public Broadcasting radio program Georgia Works.

Chip Rogers graduated from North Gwinnett High School in 1986 and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science Degree and a certificate in Economics in 1991.

Chip Rogers then attended the Georgia State University's J Mack Robinson College of Business, graduating with an MBA.

Chip Rogers founded Rogers Broadcasting in the early 1990s, which later became Rogers Communications.

Chip Rogers held interests in a radio station and real estate.

Chip Rogers purchased radio station WYXC, located in the Atlanta suburb of Cartersville, GA, in 1999.

Chip Rogers owned and operated the radio station for six years, selling WYXC to Clarion Communications in 2005.

Chip Rogers acquired sole ownership of Clarion Communications in December 2012 and immediately entered into a lease management agreement with Newstalk corporation to operate WYXC.

Chip Rogers said the media stories on the topic were "gutter politics", that the work was scripted, and that he was not a sports handicapper.

Chip Rogers was involved in a civil suit and counter suit with Bartow County Bank over a loan on the Oglethorpe Inn, after Chip Rogers and his partner sold the hotel, but remained as guarantors for the loan.

In September 2007, Senator Chip Rogers was chosen as Executive Director and Communications Director for the Fred Thompson for US President campaign in Georgia.

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.

Chip Rogers stated he supported the plan after he alleged dozens of his own signs had been stolen, but added he had told his campaign manager not to proceed with any such plan.

Chip Rogers was a leading voice for education reform and school choice.

Chip Rogers was the Senate sponsor of the Constitutional Amendment to create public charter schools.

The Constitutional Amendment Chip Rogers sponsored was approved by Georgia voters on November 6,2012.

Senator Chip Rogers authored the Grade Integrity Act aimed at protecting the classroom teacher's authority to give students the grade they actually earned.

Chip Rogers helped make Georgia a national leader in K-12 digital learning.

Chip Rogers authored the Digital Learning Act and was the Senate sponsor of the Online Clearinghouse Act.

Chip Rogers authored the Georgia Personal Identity Protection Act which requires government agencies to provide notice to their customers upon a breach of a security system and a loss of electronic data including personal information.

Chip Rogers authored the Georgia Credit Protection Act which would allow Georgia residents the opportunity to freeze their personal credit in order to prevent identity theft.

Senator Chip Rogers was the author of Mattie's Call Act, a law which uses the Georgia statewide emergency alert system to help locate person's suffering from Alzheimer's disease or Dementia, who have gone missing.

In 2011 and 2012 Chip Rogers committed to not accepting any lobbyist gifts.

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

In 2010 Chip Rogers authored a comprehensive overhaul of the Georgia Property Tax Code.

Chip Rogers earned the 2010 "Golden Shovel" Award from the Georgia Utility Contractors.

Chip Rogers joined Georgia Public Broadcasting as Executive Director for Georgia Works in December 2012.

The Georgia Works blog, written by Chip Rogers, was the most visited such blog on the GPB website, based upon the thirty minute long weekly television program of the same name that covered economic development and employment trends.

Chip Rogers worked on the program as Executive Producer and host.

Chip Rogers was fired by Georgia Public Broadcasting in 2014 for violations of employment policy including political activity, outside or dual employment, and their code of ethics.

Chip Rogers stated that the organization's members own about half of all hotels in the United States.