News Story Highlights Rep. Mike Rogers' Favor for Campaign Contributor

Rogers has received $75,000 from UPS PAC to secure millions in earmarks

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This morning's USA Today
highlighted the role played by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) to secure more than
$6 million in funding for UPS at the Capitol Regional International Airport in
Lansing, after receiving tens of thousands of dollars in campaign
contributions from the mail carrier.

The national newspaper reported that Rep. Rogers received $4,800 from UPS's
political action committee on March 19, 2007, just three days after writing a
letter to House leaders seeking an earmark for the runway extension at the
airport. Public Campaign Action Fund (PCAF) has discovered that earlier that
month, on March 5th, UPS lobbyist Robert Dotchin donated $500 to Rep. Rogers -
the only such gift from Dotchin since Rep. Rogers began running for Congress
in 2000.

In addition, while USA Today reported that Rep. Rogers had received $45,000
from the UPS Political Action Committee (PAC), PCAF found that Rep. Rogers'
leadership PAC, MIKE PAC, has received $30,000 more, for a total of $75,000
from the UPS PAC, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

"If it's a day that ends in y, there must be another story about a member of
Congress securing earmarks for a campaign contributor," said David Donnelly,
national campaigns director for Public Campaign Action Fund. "That Rep. Rogers
received donations from the company's PAC within days of his effort to secure
the funds is just another example of why we need to dramatically change the
way campaigns are financed in this country."

To sever the ties between campaign contributors and lawmakers, Congress must
pass the Fair Elections Now Act (H.R. 1826), legislation that would create a
system of campaign financing that blends limited public financing and small
dollar donations. With Fair Elections, candidates can take office unencumbered
by the agendas and expectations of large donors.

"To demonstrate that he is not doing the bidding of contributors, Rep. Rogers
should become a sponsor of the Fair Elections Now Act," said Donnelly.

Public Campaign Action Fund is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to
advancing comprehensive reform of America's election laws and works to hold
politicians accountable for the favors they do for special interests.

SOURCE Public Campaign Action Fund

Adam Smith of the Public Campaign Action Fund, +1-202-997-8929