{"id":78962,"date":"2018-12-03T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbs.org\/video\/mt-state-rep-brad-tschidas-testimony-against-his-own-con-con-application\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T01:36:19","slug":"mt-state-rep-brad-tschidas-testimony-against-his-own-con-con-application","status":"publish","type":"jbsvideo","link":"https:\/\/jbswebdev.com\/video\/concon\/mt-state-rep-brad-tschidas-testimony-against-his-own-con-con-application\/","title":{"rendered":"MT State Rep. Brad Tschida&#8217;s Testimony Against His Own Con-Con Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MT State Rep. Brad Tschida sponsored a Con-Con application resolution in 2017, but after reflecting on \u201csome new information that came to my attention\u201d he testified in committee against his own resolution on Feb 15, 2017! He said, \u201cI guess we can always do one of two things in these situations. We can staunchly defend why we took the position we did even though we know it&#8217;s wrong&#8230; Or we can admit that we were wrong\u2026\u201d<\/p><p>Rep. Tschida not only did the honorable thing, he tried to persuade other legislators to reject a Con-Con! He correctly stated \u201cthat there are more effective ways to curb a problem in Washington, DC than using this measure.\u201d Please share his testimony with your legislators. States that have already passed a Con-Con application can do the honorable thing and help stop a reckless Con-Con by rescinding their application.<\/p><p>For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jbs.org\/con-con\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.jbs.org\/con-con<\/a><\/p><p>For the full committee hearing:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/sg001-harmony.sliq.net\/00309\/Harmony\/en\/PowerBrowser\/PowerBrowserV2?fk=21870#agenda_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/sg001-harmony.sliq.net\/00309\/Harmony\/en\/PowerBrowser\/PowerBrowserV2?fk=21870#agenda_<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":13618,"featured_media":81825,"template":"","tags":[],"playlist":[13513,13518],"class_list":["post-78962","jbsvideo","type-jbsvideo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","playlist-concon","playlist-constitutional-enforcement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MT State Rep. 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