TSCHIDA, BRAD
Meet the Candidate
Running For:
State SenateDistrict:
49Political Affiliation:
RepublicanSurvey
Response Legend
- SSStrongly Supports
- SSupports
- OOpposes
- SOStrongly Opposes
- *Comment
- −Declined to respond
- †Declined to respond, Position based on citation
| Question | Response | Comments/Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pubic Schools in Montana are overfunded: | SS | |
| 2. Pubic Schools in Montana are underfunded: | SO | |
| 3. Pubic Schools in Montana are adequately funded: | O | |
| 4. Parental choice in education should be expanded through tax credits, education savings accounts, vouchers, and other means to allow children to attend any school of their or their parents choice: | SS | |
| 5. Montana should allow public charter schools: | SS | |
| 6. Parents should be allowed to home school their children without additional state regulation: | SS | |
| 7. The teaching of "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) should be banned in Montana public schools: | SS | |
| 8. Comprehensive sex education, beginning as early as kindergarten, should be allowed in public elementary schools: | -* | Educational freedom of choice needs to be expanded in Montana. Tax dollars must follow the students and not be directed to schools or school districts. Montana is one of very few states without real, expansive educational choice and freedom. |
| 9. Income taxes in Montana are too high: | SS | |
| 10. Property taxes in Montana are too high: | SS | |
| 11. Corporate taxes in Montana are too high: | SS | |
| 12. The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows all citizens to own firearms for self-protection: | SS | |
| 13. Global warming is a problem requiring increased regulation: | SO | |
| 14. Environmental regulations in Montana are too stringent: | SS | |
| 15. Environmental regulations in Montana are NOT stringent enough: | SO | |
| 16. Montanans should not be discriminated against or treated differently because of their vaccine status: | SS* | I was, and continue to be, a supporter of HB 702. Discrimination because of reluctance to receive and experimental gene therapy shot is unconscionable. |
| 17. Doctor assisted suicide should be legal in Montana: | SO | |
| 18. Abortion should be banned in ALL stages of pregnancy: | SS | |
| 19. Abortion should be banned during all stages of pregnancy, with the exceptions for rape and incest: | SO | |
| 20. Abortion should be banned only after a heartbeat is detected (around 6 weeks): | SO | |
| 21. Abortion should be banned only after the first trimester (12 weeks): | SO | |
| 22. Abortion should be banned only when a fetus becomes viable outside the womb (20 weeks): | SO | |
| 23. Abortion should be banned only after the 2nd trimester (28 weeks): | SO | |
| 24. Abortion should never be banned, not at any stage of pregnancy: | SO | |
| 25. The Montana Constitution should be amended to ban abortion: | SS | |
| 26. Infanticide (infants born alive with physical abnormalities, including infants born as a result of a botched abortion) should be banned in Montana. | SS | |
| 27. Companies and individuals should be allowed to opt-out of the abortion related mandates contained in Obamacare: | SS | |
| 28. Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete against athletes of the opposite sex: | SO | |
| 29. Doctors should be banned from performing sex-change procedures on minors: | SS | |
| 30. Homosexuals and transgender people should be allowed to adopt children: | O | |
| 31. Non-discrimination laws should be expanded to protect sexual orientation and gender identity in the same way that race, creed, nationality, and religion are protected: | SO | |
| 32. Montana’s marriage laws should be changed to reflect the recent legalization of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court: | SO |