GOP Candidate Touts Business That’s Losing Millions

“As he campaigns in one of the nation’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, Montana Republican Tim Sheehy recounts how he started an aerial firefighting business in his barn and built it into a publicly traded company on the front lines of increasingly dangerous wildfires,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Sheehy: “That’s a success story.”

“Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in recent months tell a different story about Bridger Aerospace, known for its ‘Super Scooper’ planes that can remove up to 1,400 gallons at a time from a body of water to dump on a nearby wildfire.”

“Bridger is facing a cash crunch so dire that there is ‘substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue,’ according to public filings that show the company lost $77.4 million last year and $20.1 million in the first three months of 2024.”