Chip Rogers announced retirement from Georgia State Senate

From Walter C. Jones of the Morris News Service:

 Georgia Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers announced Tuesday he is leaving the state Senate to take a job with Georgia Public Broadcasting.

Gov. Nathan Deal personally offered him a new position working under the state agency’s director Teya Ryan. Deal made the offer before Rogers released a statement last month saying he would not run for re-election as the leader of the Republicans in the Senate.