Green Bay Reporter

Restoration PAC (Political Action Committee) recently launched an ad campaign criticizing the fairness of the 2020 presidential election in light of the upcoming April 5 Green Bay City Council race.

"Free and fair elections are the Wisconsin way. Green Bay’s leaders changed all that," according to the "Betrayed in Green Bay" ad, which aired on March 25. "They let partisan outsiders take control of the 2020 election operations ... granting free access to restricted election offices, access to the absentee ballot room, and computer access to ballots on election night. Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich and the City Council allowed this. Let them know April 5 that they betrayed our trust."

The ad was produced by RPAC focuses on donations made by Mark Zuckerberg and Democrat operatives in the 2020 election.

"This shameful abdication of responsibility by the Green Bay mayor and city council is unprecedented in American history and requires accountability," Doug Truax, founder and president of Restoration PAC, told Green Bay Reporter. "We aren't going to let it slide."

According to Courthouse News Service, other reports, including most recently one by retired Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman on behalf of the Wisconsin State Assembly, have documented money from outside sources in Green Bay elections.

Gableman said the 2020 election audit he began conducting after being hired by a Republican leader in the GOP-controlled Legislature is unfinished. “I had no other goal in mind than to find the truth,” he told the Wisconsin Legislature Committee.

In Gableman's report, he noted the city of Green Bay accepted more than $1.5 million from the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL).

Pitched as “COVID-19 Response Grants,” both CTCL and Mark Zuckerberg himself have claimed the grants were given to any and all jurisdictions that requested funding, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA). However, the FGA reports that resources were targeted to Democrat jurisdictions and may have influenced the election outcome in several swing states, such as Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Several election clerks resigned because of the arrangement with CTCL. Brown County Clerk Sandy Juno notified the Wisconsin Election Commission shortly after the 2020 election about her concerns the central ballot count was, “tainted by the influence of a person working for an outside organization affecting the election." WBAY reported that Juno was referring to a man affiliated with the National Vote at Home Institute.

Truax is a former U.S. Senate candidate and the founder of Restoration Action, a nonpartisan political action committee that sponsors political activities advocating for policy changes and/or the election or defeat of candidates on the basis of conservative principles.