Episode Twenty-Five - Ryan Busse and Raph Graybill

The State of Montana

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Episode Twenty-Five - Ryan Busse and Raph Graybill

Democratic candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Montana

Russell Rowland

Jun 06, 2024

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Ryan Busse burst onto the scene in 2021 with his book Gunfight, about his years working in the gun industry and the takeover by that industry by the NRA. After touring all over the country for that book, Busse began to feel the pull toward a run for office. Not a man to shy away from a challenge, he decided to go big, and he declared his candidacy for governor early this year.

Busse chose as his running mate a man who has been fighting for Montanans for years in his private law practice. Raph Graybill served as the chief counsel for Governor Steve Bullock, and since holding that office, he has represented many important cases in the state. I interviewed each of these guys individually earlier, so you can go back and listen to those episodes for more about their background and why they decided to run for office, but this episode is dedicated to questions that I gathered from a facebook post telling people I was going to interview these candidates. I know I didn’t get to everyone, but there were so many great questions.

Thanks to my sponsor, Buchanan Capital, for supporting this podcast.

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The State of Montana

Montana has a long history of very complicated politics, often influenced by major corporations, as with the Copper Kings in our early history, or oil money. But we also have a strong track record of very progressive milestones, the most significant of which was the election of the first woman to ever serve in Congress, Jeanette Rankin. We also have what most constitutional historians consider one of the strongest state constitutions in the country. We have always boasted a very significant balance of power as well, but recently that has changed, and I want to understand why, and what can be done about it. So I'm going to interview some of our more high-profile citizens, not necessarily politicians, to explore this issue. My first guest will be Dorothy Bradley, who was the first woman to run for governor of the state. Dorothy just barely lost to Marc Racicot in 1992.

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