Democrat Mayors May Have Violated Open Meetings Law During Secret Election Planning

The mayors of Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha may have violated Wisconsin’s open meetings law when they met in secret to discuss an election grant from a liberal special interest group.

When the mayors of Wisconsin’s five largest cities met on Zoom to discuss how they would apply for and then use an election grant from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), they may have violated the state’s Open Meetings Law.

Recently released emails reveal that last May, Racine Mayor Cory Mason emailed his fellow Democrat mayors in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, and Kenosha to set up a virtual meeting during which “the Elections Planning Grant will be discussed.”

That grant—from CTCL—was ultimately awarded to the five cities, which were dubbed “The Wisconsin Five.” In both Green Bay and Milwaukee, CTCL deployed a partner organization, the National Vote at Home Institute, to essentially take over the administration of the presidential election.

The National Vote at Home Institute’s Wisconsin director, Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, was given unprecedented access to ballot data and even ballots themselves and so thoroughly (and almost certainly unlawfully) took over Green Bay’s election planning that the city’s municipal clerk quit in disgust.

In Milwaukee, he demanded a daily email from the director of the city’s election commission with detailed statistics on which ballots had been returned and which were still outstanding. He was so brazen that he even asked for access to the city’s absentee ballot database.

He was denied, but it was worth a shot: Green Bay actually gave him access to the secure room where absentee ballots were stored prior to Election Day!

https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2021/05/democrat-mayors-may-have-violated-open-meetings-law-during-secret-election-planning/