Michael Morrill

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Michael W. Morrill is an American political activist and former member of the Green Party. Morrill has since switched parties and is working for democratic and green values as a Democrat. He was a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 2002. He was appointed to the West Reading Borough Council by a Republican-majority board. He was elected to Borough Council in 2005, running on the Democratic, Republican and Green party lines. Morrill is the first, and only person in Pennsylvania, to have ever run on all three tickets.

Morrill has been a long-time activist for liberal causes, including the peace movement, electoral reform and fights against global corporatism. He has served as the executive director of the Pennsylvania Citizen Action Network, Pennsylvania's Campaign for Choice and numerous other local and statewide organizations. Morrill currently works for a labor-management collaborative which provides education for healthcare workers and labor-management relations training.

Morrill was widely rumored to be considering another run for governor of Pennsylvania in 2006, this time for the Democratic nomination. However, he announced on February 13, 2006, that he would not run, citing the "toll" his 2002 race took on him and his family ([1], [2]).

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Morrill is staunchly pro-labor, reflecting his many years as a union organizer. He supports full civil rights for all people, which he defines as being pro-choice on abortion and fully supportive of LGBT rights (including marriage).

He also supports restructuring taxes to ease the burden on lower and middle income people and closing loopholes for corporations and the wealthy.

Morrill supports comprehensive electoral reform, including Clean Money Campaign Reform, proportional representation, instant runoff voeting, liberalized ballot access and a mandated paper trail for voting machines. Morrill has advocated many of these efforts for close to a decade.