However, when he asks her out for a beer, they begin to show respect for one another. When Ben comes to Pawnee, he immediately clashes with Leslie Knope, as she yells at him three consecutive times for his seemingly callous attitude towards firing people and slashing her department's budget. When Ben was eighteen, he ran for mayor of his hometown of Partridge, Minnesota, and won on the strength of, in his words, 'anti-establishment voter rebellion.' However, being so inexperienced, he quickly ran the town's finances into the ground and was impeached after two months.His signature failure was spearheading the development of a winter sports complex called Ice Town which bankrupted the town, leading to the newspaper headline 'Ice Town Costs Ice Clown Town Crown.' Compared to the exuberant Chris, Ben is very serious and straight, willing to tell the truth no matter how harsh - the two used to do budget meetings individually, but it didn't work out because Chris would never get anything done and Ben received multiple death threats. Ben is a state auditor who comes into Pawnee with Chris Traeger to evaluate the town's funds at the end of the second season. Benjamin ' Ben' Wyatt guest starred in two episodes of season two and was upgraded to a regular in season three.

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