Ryan Zinke
Montana’s 1st (MT - 01)
Updated: October 3, 2024
Overview
Candidate CPP:
Butte: $110
Missoula: $142
Monica Tranel grew up on a ranch in Eastern Montana and has spent her career holding out-of-state corporate monopolies accountable for ripping off Montanans. She’s running for Congress to hold corrupt politicians and out of state corporations accountable for driving up housing costs.
Ryan Zinke is a corrupt politician who has used public office to try to enrich himself at Montanans’ expense.
Summary
Voters should see ads on broadcast and cable in the Butte/Bozeman and Missoula markets, streaming and digital platforms, and read mail districtwide highlighting Ryan Zinke’s corruption:
- Ryan Zinke resigned in disgrace after facing 18 federal investigations including allegations of corruption and using his office for personal gain.
- He tried to personally profit from out of state interests buying up Montana land and driving up housing costs. Zinke was even investigated for engaging in a shady land deal, attempting to help a multinational corporate executive buy land in Whitefish for a private development project that Zinke stood to make money from.
- He sold out Montana farmers and ranchers while Chinese corporations bought up U.S. farmland, and then a PAC for a Chinese company donated to his campaign.
- Ryan Zinke is profiteering off Montana’s housing crisis, buying up properties and increasing the rent on Montantans.
After voters have received information about Ryan Zinke’s corruption, voters should see ads on broadcast and cable in the Butte/Bozeman and Missoula markets and streaming and digital platforms districtwide highlighting Ryan Zinke’s dangerous record on abortion:
- Zinke wants to roll back Montanans’ rights and freedoms. He supports letting the government ban abortion with no exceptions, even in cases of rape and incest or when the woman’s life is at stake, and has voted repeatedly to take away abortion rights in Montana. He repeatedly voted to criminalize abortion and supports letting the government punish doctors with jail time.
Voters under the age of 60 who identify as Republican and are open to persuasive information about the difference between Libertarian Dennis Hayes and Ryan Zinke should see ads narrowly targeted to them personally on streaming and digital platforms like Meta and programmatic CTV and read in the mail that:
- Libertarian Dennis Hayes is a conservative outsider who is focused on draining the corrupt Washington swamp, building Trump’s border wall, eliminating the government overreach of the Bureau of Land Management, and always standing up to the radical left.
- Ryan Zinke is another Washington politician who resigned from Donald Trump’s cabinet after facing 18 federal investigations including allegations of corruption and abuse of taxpayer dollars. And Zinke sold out Montana to out-of-state and Chinese interests, accepted campaign contributions from a PAC for a Chinese company, sought to profit from out-of-state corporate executives buying up land and voted to make it harder for Montana ranchers to compete with China.
Additional Resources
It is critical that voters in this district, which Donald Trump carried by 7 points in 2020, DO NOT see images of Ryan Zinke and Donald Trump together.
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