Byram Municipal Elections in 2013

Our municipal government here in Byram was sworn in, in a very underhanded way, in 2009, when it was too late to have municipal elections that year. We got stuck with a government installed by Haley Barbour, Phil Bryant, and Delbert Hosemann. For a dozen years, "Mayor" Nick Tremonte and the five-member board of aldermen called themselves a municipal government. That should be illegal if it's not, and I believe it is.

They said they didn't want to be the real government when we incorporated. They lied. They said that they would not give the people on the south side of Forest Hill Road over to Jackson. They lied.

They have spent money. They have made laws. They have zoned property. They have raised our property taxes. They have raised the rates of our water and trash pick-up. They are in the process of deciding the political boundaries of our wards for the election of aldermen. The "mayor" does not live inside the city limits.

You had better learn who will be running for office in Byram in 2013.

Tuesday's Election

There are three very important ballot initiatives on which to vote in the election coming up this Tuesday, November 8, 2011. I encourage everyone to get out and vote "Yes" on the Personhood Amendment (#26) to stop baby murder in Mississippi, "Yes" on Voter ID, and "Yes" on stopping eminent domain abuse by the government.

When it comes to voting on public offices, however, I only intend to vote in the race for our local justice court judge. In every single one of the other races, I don't see much difference between the Democrat and the RINO running.

Here's just one example: We received a political postcard yesterday from our incumbent "Republican" (read RINO) state representative, Jim Ellington. I know for a fact that he has hired illegal aliens to work for him before. He says in his postcard, "As a father and grandfather, you can count on me to strengthen education by spending more money directly in the classroom and by always putting the academic needs of children first." That sounds like a liberal Democrat/Socialist/Communist! I'm sure that he wants for us to think that he cares about children (a liberal tactic), and that the money we spend on education is largely wasted and doesn't always make it into the classroom, which is true. However, we spend way too much on education (about two-thirds of our state budget), we don't have enough to show for it, and they deprive and harm our children by refusing to mandate the teaching of the Holy Bible and the true religion of Christianity to every child.

No, Jim Ellington won't be getting my vote on Tuesday. Neither will any other "Republican," because they all look like RINOs to me. Maybe we need for liberals to take over so that we can learn a hard lesson, like we're learning at the federal level right now with Obama being in the White House.