Ryan Busse, the father of two plaintiffs in a landmark Montana climate change lawsuit, is running to challenge Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke.
Busse, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully to be Montana’s governor in 2024, launched his campaign Thursday, pointing to a poll showing him 4 percentage points ahead of the incumbent.
Zinke was first elected in 2022, and was formerly Interior secretary during President Donald Trump’s first administration, where he implemented many major pro-fossil fuel policies.
“Zinke’s abandonment of working people is exposing century-old Montana scars left here by the insanely wealthy mining barons who once poisoned our rivers and rigged the economic system against working people,” Busse wrote in a Substack post about his campaign launch.
