When Ben Granby ran for Dane County coroner a decade ago, he pledged to “demystify the office” and wanted to market key chains, T-shirts and caps with the coroner’s logo.
He lost that election to former coroner Ray Wosepka and after thinking about making another what he described as a “joke-candidacy” run for sheriff in 2000, Granby, who had founded the political student group Ten Fat Tigers on the UW-Madison campus, gave up local politics for an international perspective.