Green Bay Reporter

Bill Morgan said he is running for a Green Bay City Council seat in the April 4 election to reduce crime and increase election transparency. 

Morgan, a 50-year resident who built a home 38 years ago in District 3, blamed the use of illegal drugs for most of the troubles happening around — shootings, robberies, batteries, the effect of it on people in the long run and also advocated for election law changes, in an interview with Green Bay Reporter. 

"It's not everyone, but a lot of these people are either involved in illegal drug transactions or it's people that are down and out that they're hooked on something," Morgan said. "And I believe that's the start of it. So I think that stronger united drug presence here, that we in Brown County and make sure the unit is really doing a good job. But maybe we need some more manpower in there."

When it comes to voting transparency, the Green Bay candidate cited a report from Fox 11 News from February related to the primary involving an election observer named Matt Roeser. He also pointed to the use of "ZuckerBucks." 

"When they did this spring primary, [Roeser] went down to City Hall just because he wanted to know what was going on and found out that the city had opened up their accounts of absentee ballots several hours before it was posted that it's going to happen," he said. "We also have the use in the election of 2020, where I guess we call it ‘Zuckbucks’, where the money was brought into our community and someone was hired from New York. I believe that overran our election and actually cost us a very nice city clerk." 

In February, Roeser discovered the city had begun counting ballots prior to the oversight of observers, Fox 11 News reported. City officials said they had made an error on the notice showing the time ballots would be counted. As a result, 900 ballots were counted without observation, WTAQ.com reported. Green Bay city council members sparred over the problem in a February meeting. 

"Today I lack confidence in our ability to conduct the remaining 2022 elections without incident," City council president Jesse Brunette said at the time, according to a WLUK Green Bay report.

Morgan, 71, retired as a sergeant from the Brown County Sheriff’s Office after 39 years of service, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette. He is a graduate of Denmark High School and has received technical training at Fox Valley Technical College, Lakeshore Technical College, and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Morgan has won several local awards for policing and community work. He has coached youth baseball for 31 years.  

The MacIver Institute reported the 2020 election in Wisconsin was allegedly rife with fraud. Election officials were sued on allegations that severely disabled nursing home residents had voted. Greeny Bay was also one of the cities in Wisconsin that split $8.8 million in so-called "Zuckbucks" to facilitate local elections. The other cities were Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, and Kenosha.