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Rogers seeks return as county exec
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In announcing his candidacy for Warren County executive, Kenneth Rogers outlined specific plans for attracting quality jobs, boosting the cost efficiency of local government, improving public education and guaranteeing pay bonuses to all county employees.“If elected, I can promise only two things – that I will give my very best efforts to move Warren County up and out of the economic problems, and to put something extra in every county employee’s paycheck,” said Rogers, a member of the Warren County Commission and a former county executive.“I can guarantee the pay bonus for county and school system employees because I am committing here and now to donate my first year’s take-home salary entirely to be distributed among all those dedicated public servants who have been denied economic justice and fairness from their employer for many years,” he stated. “Our employees and their families have suffered financially because county government has balanced its books by ignoring the human needs of these people.“That mindset of withholding the just and proper wages of our employees might not change in the county commission, but I can give my pay to them for a year to help ease, at least in a small way, their financial burden,” Rogers continued. “This is the one thing I can guarantee.