Steel on Target at the Byram Independence Day T.E.A. Party!

When I had the privilege of serving as a gunner in an M-1 Abrams tank in the Mississippi Army National Guard back in the '80s, we had a saying, "Steel on target!" That meant that the 105mm shell that had been fired out of the main gun had hit its target with dead-on accuracy.

Well, our Byram T.E.A. Party that we had this past Saturday, the Fourth of July, must have hit the bulls-eye, because Richard White, one of the Byram aldermen (a.k.a. Nick Tremonte's Gang of Five) came up to me afterwards and said, "Come see me sometime. Let's get straight."

Mr. White, our side is already straight, and one of the reasons why we're having our T.E.A. parties is to get our government straight, and that includes getting people like you out of it. We in State Senate District 29 voted you out in 2007 because you got too big for your britches and quit listening to the people, and you weaseled your way into being appointed to the Byram Board of Aldermen. And in 2013, we intend to vote you out of that, too, along with the rest of our unelected government!

You people claimed that you didn't want to be the real government when we incorporated, but now you are. Mayor Nick Tremonte told the people who live on the south side of Forest Hill Road that he would not give them over to Jackson, but he did. Mr. Tremonte wants to continue to use the Hinds County Sheriff's Office for our law enforcement when they don't even do their job now. We need our own city police department. He wants for us to pay for a full-time, professional fire department, when our volunteers are doing just fine, and they're saving us a lot of money. He wants to build a new library, when we already have a good one. He has a history of treating citizens like dirt just for asking an honest question. And he says that he will do whatever the people want, if we are willing to pay for it. That's not true leadership. A true leader listens to the people, and he makes decisions when they need to be made. He doesn't lick his finger and stick it into the air to see which way the political winds are blowing. Mr. Tremonte, you can get mad at me if you want to, but I have the God-given right to free speech, affirmed by our Constitution, and I will continue to use it!

When we incorporated, Mr. Tremonte said that it was "fun" being a part of history. Mr. Tremonte, you had better have all of your fun over the next four years, because we intend to oust you when we finally get to vote! Better yet, why don't all six of you announce your resignations tomorrow night at the board meeting, and call for an honest special election, so that we the people can choose our leaders?

There is a Byram Board of Aldermen meeting tomorrow night at 7:00pm at the pavilion in Davis Road Park, right beside the fire station. I hope all of the residents of Byram will be there. We need to be watching these people, and we need to vote them out of office when we finally have an actual election!

Byram mayor and aldermen, we know we didn't get to vote on you, and we don't like the direction in which you're taking us. We're going to keep you in our sights, we're going to get the right distance and trajectory with our laser range finder, we're going to hit our target with our sabot rounds over and over again, exposing your real agenda, and we're not going to stop until you're out of office and replaced with citizens who will actually take Byram in the right direction!