Byram Incorporation!

Well, the good news is that Byram is one big step closer to incorporation. The bad news, however, comes in more than one part. First, the pretend "interim government" gets to be the REAL government until we can hold municipal elections. Of course, the state supreme court made their ruling AFTER the qualifying deadline for candidates for municipal office, even though they had plenty of time to hand down their ruling much, much earlier. None of the "interim aldermen" live inside of what will be the city limits, yet some of us knew all along that they wanted the real, actual governmental positions, even though they always said they didn't. So much for them being people of their word. They also told the people on the south side of Forest Hill Road that they wouldn't be given over to Jackson. They were.

The other part of the bad news is that the U.S. Department of Justice also has to approve of Byram's incorporation. I wouldn't have trusted them to get that right under the Bush administration; much less so under the Obama administration.

The self-proclaimed "interim mayor," Nick Tremonte, who the state government has never told couldn't impersonate an elected official, says that we need to keep the Hinds County Sheriff's Office instead of starting our own police department, that we need to start a professional fire department when our volunteer one will do just fine, and that we need to stay on Jackson water and sewage. Give me a break!

When we finally do incorporate, it is imperative that we elect good, decent people to our new city's government who will work for both economic and moral prosperity, not just for themselves and their egos. For mayor and for each alderman position, we need to elect someone who is one of US!