TSCHIDA, BRAD

Meet the Candidate

Running For:
State Senate
District:
49
Political Affiliation:
Republican
Montana Family Foundation Comments:

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Response Legend

  • SSStrongly Supports
  • SSupports
  • OOpposes
  • SOStrongly Opposes
  • *Comment
  • −Declined to respond
  • †Declined to respond, Position based on citation

Question Response Comments/Notes
1. Public School Funding in Montana is at an inadequate level. SO
2. Parents should have greater freedom to choose how and where their children are educated, including options such as education savings accounts, tax credits, vouchers, or other school-choice mechanisms. SS* Educational dollars should follow the students and not be totally controlled by the current public educational regime.
3. Parents should be allowed to homeschool their children without additional state regulation SS
4. Curricula based on Critical Race Theory (CRT) should be prohibited in Montana public schools SS
5. Comprehensive sex education should be taught in public elementary schools, beginning as early as kindergarten. SO
6. Montana’s income taxes are too high. SS
7. Montana’s property taxes are too high SS* The current property tax system is woefully out of sync with the current fiscal circumstances of Montanans and was merely a shift from one classification system to another. Also, there should only be 2 tax systems ever allowed to be used in Montana.
8. Montana’s corporate taxes are too high SS
9. The Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms for self-defense. SS
10. Montanans should not be discriminated against or treated differently based on their vaccination status. SS* The injuries from "vaccines" have been shown to be even more damaging to citizens than the impact of those who chose to exercise their God-given right to allow naturally immunities to Sars-Cov II to be developed.
11. Climate change is a serious problem that requires increased government regulation. SO* Edwin X. Berry has proven that man-made CO2 is not detrimental to the world's environment and the current man-made climate-change theory is just a hoax.
12. Environmental regulations in Montana are currently too restrictive. SS
13. Abortion should be illegal at all stages of pregnancy. SS
14. Abortion should be legal only in the early stages of pregnancy and restricted after a specific point, except when necessary to save the life of the mother. SO* The maternal death rates from abortion are as high as 5x the causes of death from either Caesarean section or normal delivery. Abortion promotes increased maternal deaths, as well as being 100% fatal for the unborn child.
15. Abortion should remain legal at all stages of pregnancy, without restriction. SO
16. Individuals and organizations should be allowed to opt out of abortion-related mandates, if those mandates violate their religious or moral convictions. SS
17. Physician-assisted suicide should be legal in Montana. SO
18. Biological males who identify as transgender should be allowed to compete in women’s and girl's athletic competitions. SO
19. Medical procedures intended to change a minor’s sex or gender should be prohibited. SS
20. Same-sex couples should be permitted to adopt children. SO* The nuclear family is the optimum environment for a child to be raised in a fashion that promotes the most effective outcomes for mentally heathy children.
21. State and local nondiscrimination laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the same manner as race, religion, and national origin. SO
22. Montana’s marriage laws should be revised to reflect the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. SO
23. Objective moral truths exist and should inform laws and public policy, rather than shifting cultural preferences. SS
24. Government should be limited in scope, with most decisions best made by individuals, families, and local communities rather than centralized authorities. SS
25. Homosexuals and transgender people should be allowed to adopt children: SO
26. Personal responsibility and self-governance are more effective at solving social problems than expanded government programs: SS
27. Parents—not government institutions—are the primary authority responsible for the education and moral formation of their children: SS