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Ben Dorscheid

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Ben Dorscheid
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

August 9, 2022

Education

Graduate

American Public University, 2019

Personal
Birthplace
Janesville, Wis.
Profession
Public School Teacher
Contact

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Ben Dorscheid (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Wisconsin State Assembly to represent District 45. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 9, 2022.

Dorscheid completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2022

General election

General election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 45

Clinton Anderson defeated Jeff Klett in the general election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 45 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Clinton Anderson
Clinton Anderson (D) Candidate Connection
 
55.7
 
11,636
Image of Jeff Klett
Jeff Klett (R)
 
44.2
 
9,221
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
15

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 20,872
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 45

Clinton Anderson defeated Ben Dorscheid in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 45 on August 9, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Clinton Anderson
Clinton Anderson Candidate Connection
 
64.5
 
2,431
Image of Ben Dorscheid
Ben Dorscheid Candidate Connection
 
35.3
 
1,329
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
8

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 3,768
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 45

Jeff Klett advanced from the Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 45 on August 9, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Jeff Klett
Jeff Klett
 
99.6
 
2,894
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
13

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 2,907
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2022

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Candidate Connection

Ben Dorscheid completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dorscheid's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Ben Dorscheid was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin and graduated college at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater. He has worked as a high school social studies teacher in Southern Wisconsin for 7 years. He is proud to call Wisconsin home and is eager to serve this great state as a representative to its 45th Assembly District.
  • I want our public schools fully funded with state funding.
  • I want to protect and preserve our natural resources.
  • I want more transparency with voting to ensure every vote counts.
I am very passionate about moving Wisconsin towards becoming a net energy provider through conservation, efficiency, and renewable energy sources.
In personal matters, I look up to my father. He is a warm, caring, and empathetic man who works hard every day to make his family's lives better. In political matters, Barrack Obama will always be my president. The years I grew up under his administration were some of the most secure, productive, and enjoyable times of my life.
I recently read Barack Obama’s memoirs “A Promised Land,” and so much of his political philosophy resonated with me.
Honesty is the greatest builder of trust between an elected official and their constituent. Elected officials need to communicate truthfully about what their goals, methods, and actions are.
Your responsibility as a legislator is first and foremost to represent the people of your district. What is best for them? How would they vote if given the choice?
The September 11th attacks occurred while I was in Elementary school. My teachers did the best they could to explain such a tragic event to a room full of kids. But the way our country United together and supported each other filled me with national pride.
My first job was at a Dairy Queen in Janesville, WI. I worked there for a year and learned a great deal about work ethic and it gave me a great deal of respect for food service workers.
The governor is a check on our legislature. They can tell them to prioritize certain things through special session but cannot tell them what or how to do it. The Governor can also work with the legislature to pass policy or veto legislation they feel is an overstep. They should be on the same team but need not agree on every issue.
Our greatest challenge is breaking from some of the entrenched traditions that make for bad policy. Everyone agrees that term limits are a good thing but no one wants to be searching for a job after 8 years. Everyone agrees that Gerrymandering is fundamentally unfair but no one wants to lose their position of power. We need to agree to make changes for the benefit of our state and not our individuals.
A unicameral legislature would be simpler but would also reduce the ability of new ideas to be introduced. I personally like the continuity of our state senate over 4 years being simultaneously balanced with the constant turnover of our state assembly. Politics must be stable but must not stand still.
I don’t think political experience is a bad thing but I also don’t see it as a necessity. I don’t have legislative experience but I have a lot of other skills that will be very beneficial to law making. It is the age old question of how to get experience if you need experience to get started?
Absolutely, You need to be able to to work with and collaborate with your colleagues just like any company or business. That means even the ones you disagree with.
I would prefer a nonpartisan group redraw districts after each census with an emphasis on trying to keep cities and villages in the same district with their surrounding towns as well as using county lines as much as possible. They shouldn’t even have voter data available to them when redrawing.
I would love to be on the education committee due to my background in teaching and also on the environment committee from my personal interest in conservation.
While I was collecting signatures, I gave my brief speech about my platform and fully funding public schools to a young mother who then proceeded to tell me she was a homeschool teacher for her children. We talked for quite a while about why she chose home schooling and why many other families choose public school and how resources can often be shared between schools and home school families. Eventually we agreed that our views were no necessarily at odds and she signed my sheet.
Yes, I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But it is also clear that our current representatives don’t either. Good policy making includes listening to the best ideas and finding common ground instead of trying to win at all costs or box out the minority party’s ideas.

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