Dem candidate Busse: Gianforte agenda is ‘fascism’

This story is excerpted from Capitolized, a weekly newsletter featuring expert reporting, analysis and insight from the editors and reporters of Montana Free Press. Want to see Capitolized in your inbox every Thursday? Sign up here. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ryan Busse held the first major press conference of his campaign this week, laying out some basic legislative priorities and directing astringent criticism at incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. Busse, a critic of the firearms industry in which he once worked as an executive, spent part of his roughly 40-minute re