May 2, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Members of the Montana Family Foundation are up in arms over Governor Brian Schweitzer’s plan to terminate a marriage and family council--put in place by his predecessors—and to pull pro-abstinence T.V. commercials from the state’s airwaves.
Jeff Laszloffy, president of the Montana Family Foundation said this week that, “We have programs that are working…I would hate to see them go away.''
The Governor’s Council on Families was first implemented in 1996 by then Governor Marc Raicot and re-instated by Judy Martz, Schweitzer’s predecessor.
Although the goal of the council is to direct the Governor on policies affecting families and to promote healthy families through education and advertising, critics think that the council had no clear direction.