Dem House candidate faces authenticity questions after kitchen table ad omits $1.6M estate
FIRST ON FOX: A campaign staffer for Democratic House hopeful in Montana, Ryan Busse, would not confirm or deny whether their town home was used for a campaign ad instead...
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FIRST ON FOX: A campaign staffer for Democratic House hopeful in Montana , Ryan Busse, would not confirm or deny whether their town home was used for a campaign ad instead of Busse's four-acre $1.6 million rural estate. The ad , titled "Let's Fix It," shows Busse and his wife listening to news headlines in the kitchen of a modest town home as Busse fixes coffee. "How much more of this are we supposed to take?" Busse asked his wife as he threw a dishtowel he was wiping his hands with on the counter next to him. In the next scene, Busse can be seen hauling road signs into a silver car as he touts his campaign message to voters and what motivates him to run. However, a review of public records, photos on real estate websites, and past interviews Busse has done at his actual home in Kalispell, Montana, suggests the residence appearing in the ad belongs to one of his staffers, Alice Collins. When Fox News Digital reached out to the Busse campaign and Collins about the matter, Collins said that "at no point in the ad do we claim it to be Ryan’s house." Neither responded to repeated inquiries asking them to confirm or deny whether the town home used in the ad was Collins' residence. BLUE STATE DEM CANDIDATE WHO MADE 'AFFORDABILITY' A KEY ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN RIPPED FOR CHARGING $13 FOR WATER Busse, a former firearms executive and failed gubernatorial candidate in 2024, says in the ad he will "fight for working people, not the wealthy," and he has campaigned on a message about affordability for the common man in a state that is one of the least affordable when it comes to owning a home. "If a candidate seeking to crusade on an affordability message feels the need to film campaign commercials away from their own home, that says a lot about the state of socialism and the demonization of prosperity in today’s Democratic Party," said Republican strategist Colin Reed. "The inauthenticity of Busse’s ad reflects a pattern we’re seeing in races across the country — America's last eli…