GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Green Bay’s mayor has picked a new chief of staff, and it is someone conservatives have raised concerns about in allegations of how the city conducted the November 2020 election.
Amaad Rivera-Wagner, a community liaison in Mayor Eric Genrich’s office, is being promoted to chief of staff, according to city documents. The change is effective May 3rd and does not require city council approval.
Rivera-Wagner is a former Democratic politician from Massachusetts, who joined the city a few months before the November election.
Conservatives, including some state Republican lawmakers, allege the mayor’s office let private officials take over decision-making from the city clerk’s office for the election.
Green Bay City Attorney Vanessa Chavez released a 19-page internal report last week detailing how the city conducted the election. Chavez determined the city did nothing illegal and “no issues affecting the integrity of the election have been found.”
Rivera-Wagner, a vocal opponent of former President Donald Trump, was listed on city documents as being a supervisor for the city’s central count operations at the KI Convention Center.
Genrich, a former Democratic member of the state assembly, has said Rivera-Wagner provided “logistical support” on Election Day. He also said “it’s important to note that there are people of all kinds of political ideologies that work for the city, but when it comes to our election, we have an obligation to do our work in a nonpartisan way and we have no reservations about that taking place.”
Rivera-Wagner replaces Celestine Jeffreys, who became the City Clerk after former clerk Kris Teske resigned last December.
