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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Ben Masel |
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Madison, Wisconsin , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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October 17, 1954
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| Died | April 30, 2011
(56 years)
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modifed | David
Oct 17, 2020 02:35pm |
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Caucasian - Single - Cancer - Convicted - Imprisoned - Judaism - Straight -
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| Info | Bennet Alan "Ben" Masel
I grew up in New Jersey, came to Wisconsin in 1971 to attend the UW, got indefinitely suspended at the end of my freshman year for the last round of Vietnam War protests. Heading to Miami to join the actions around Nixon's renomination Convention, I became the youngest person placed on the White House enemies list, a couple months shy of my 18th Birthday. When i went to register for the draft (back in New Jersey,) the County Police Chief, there on unrelated business, warned "Whatever you do, don't let this one near our boys, he's trouble." This led to my being classified 4F Administrative, translates to unfit for 'none of the above' reasons. As it turns out, my age cohort was the first not to face conscription.
My first run for office was in 1990, when I challenged Tommy Thompson in the Republican primary for Governor, mostly using the campaign to re-introduce hemp as a raw material for such industries as textiles, as a fuel source, and, especially of interest to Wisconsin, paper.
This led to a broader interest in renewables. I'd like to see our 1930s and 1940s era electric plants, currently mothballed as 3d string backups, retrofitted with biomass gassifiers, as an immediate step, rather than wait for cellulose to ethanol technologies to mature. In 1990 I heard these conversions were just over the horizon, and while the horizon may be shorter, we still hear they're just past it.
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