11/20/2023 0 Comments A favor for a friend video“Unfortunately the Montana that I love, and that my kids have been raised in, is being threatened right now. “My Montana is a place where hardworking people make a good living for themselves, raise their kids with equal opportunity,” Busse says in the launch video. He said Gianforte is part of a radical right-wing shift in the state in favor of a privileged class of wealthy landholders and in contravention of the supposed Montana values so often evoked during campaign season. “They’re going to lie and say we can’t shoot,” Busse says.īusse told Capitolized Thursday that he, his family and friends are all worried about the same thing: “This state becoming unlivable for working people.” In the final scene of the video, Busse launches a target that reads “Busse Can’t Shoot,” a statement his 15-year-old son, Badge, ballistically contradicts. The third paragraph of the press release announcing his candidacy notes that Busse is a former Republican. It’s all emblematic of the kind of positioning Democrats in Montana have long employed in search of elected office - to be liberal, but in a plausibly conservative fashion. ![]() The video shows the Busse family launching clay pigeons that read “20% Property Tax Increase,” “Anti-Choice,” “No River Access” - a reference to Gianforte’s 2009 lawsuit challenging a public easement on a river abutting his property - and “Defunding Public Schools” as Busse, occasionally grunting with disgust, blasts them with a shotgun. (See: Brian Schweitzer, at least twice, Matt Rosendale, others.) Greg Gianforte in a guns, trucks and mounted-bucks heavy campaign video that features a classic Montana political ad motif: the candidate shooting at symbolic representations of policies they oppose. Kalispell Democrat and former firearms industry executive Ryan Busse launched his 2024 gubernatorial campaign Thursday, taking aim at Republican Gov. ![]() This story is excerpted from Capitolized, a weekly newsletter with expert reporting, analysis and insight from the editors and reporters of Montana Free Press. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.
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