Montana Meth Project: more money needed to keep ads on the air

Billionaire Thomas Siebel says Montanans need to start donating their own money to keep the graphic advertisements from his Montana Meth Project http://www.montanameth.org/ on the air in 2007.

Siebel said he doesn’t want the "strings attached" that come with state money because his hard-hitting campaign of print, TV, radio and billboard ads would likely never make it out of a government committee.

"We don’t want to turn it into a public agency," he told state and local leaders Tuesday morning.

Please visit hear to contribute: http://www.montanameth.org/

By MATT GOURAS
Associated Press

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/21/news/state/27-meth-ads.txt

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Meth Project: more money needed to keep graphic ads on the air

By MATT GOURAS of the Associated Press

A billboard here greets drivers with a photo of a grungy public restroom and the message: "No one thinks they’ll lose their virginity here. Meth will change that."

Other anti-meth ads paid for by software billionaire Thomas Siebel include a TV spot depicting a young meth-addicted woman yanking out her eyebrows with tweezers while a narrator says "It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you are on meth." Another shows a young man covered in scabs robbing patrons of a laundry, then screaming into the camera "This was not supposed to be your life!"

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2006/03/21/breaker/doc442041727ff4a993058925.txt