PUBLIC SERVANT

PUBLIC SERVANT – A person who serves the people unselfishly in the capacity in which they were elected, with untiring and dedicated effort, to the absolute best of their ability, with all honesty, diligence and perseverance, for the fair and equal treatment of all people.

Any elected official should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by their good conduct or bad conduct, their efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the community as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about their acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame them when they do wrong as to praise them when they do right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is wrong and unpatriotic.Theodore Roosevelt.


VOTING AS A DUTY - It is not only your right to vote, but it is your duty if you are indeed free people and American citizens. Everyone should vote. You should proudly go to the polls no matter how you feel about the candidates, than neglect your duty.

OATH OF OFFICE

Article VI (Public Officers) Oath of Office, Section 3.

Senators, Representatives and all judicial, State and county officers shall, before entering on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation before a person authorized to administer oaths. "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity." The oath or affirmation shall be administered to a member of the Senate or to a member of the House of Representatives in the hall of the House to which he shall have been elected. Any person refusing to take the oath or affirmation shall forfeit his office.


FIDELITY– Faithfulness to your duties. You must be loyal, and unwavering in allegiance, morally upright, trustworthy, obligated, committed, and completely reliable. You must at all times, in all of your dealings, put the welfare of the people first and foremost.

Duty– Responsibility to act with diligent perseverance at tasks that you are obligated, and required to perform, because of the position that you hold; and you are expected to perform it with honest, obedient conduct, and with the utmost respect, for the benefit of the people.

Last Updated: 3/23/09