PRINCIPLE #3: ACCOUNTABILITY
Regardless of their current political affiliation, FORWARD candidates and elected officials will strive, specifically, to serve the people who vote them into office, whom they have sworn an oath to represent. We consider it our primary purpose to make decisions, enact statutes, regulations, and laws that benefit the majority of voters within our local communities and, ultimately, to be accountable primarily to our citizens.
Rationale: The public interest must always come before either party interests or one’s personal agenda, otherwise the entire concept of representative democracy will disintegrate and we’ll be left with nothing but authoritarian parties and politicians.
Cultivating a Different Kind of Political Leader
We’re building a party consisting, first and foremost, of highly ethical individuals. We believe that character matters. We trust, too, that when leaders embrace FORWARD principles and values, regardless of where they stand on the issues, good things will naturally follow.