Winters’ letter
Kudos to Carl Winters (“Use vote to hold officials accountable,” Jan. 18).
Greenwood, Itta Bena and Leflore County citizens need to defeat all those elected officials who are on private payrolls and elect representatives who will represent us, the citizens. We are already paying them to work for us, and they sell us out.
A lot of employees of these governments would like to have written that letter, but more than twice already we have seen what happens when you speak out against your bosses. We are trapped in a vicious system that feels it must stand by its administrators, right or wrong. We are forced to route our grievances by way of the very people who did us wrong, giving them the opportunity to manipulate the process before it even begins.
We, the citizens, get one chance to speak out without fear of retaliation, and that’s at the polls. If you don’t do it, then you might as well bear with the bumpy roads, flooded streets and the downtown copycat of New Orleans, while the south end of Greenwood goes to the dogs and Itta Bena lies bankrupt in the middle of one of the richest counties in Mississippi and with a major state university within a stone’s throw.
Vote, vote, vote. Or just tuck your tail and run, because sooner or later the corruption is coming for you.
Can’t Wait Till Election Day
Lydia Chassaniol
Regarding the editorial “Chassaniol leads charge for secrecy” (Jan. 21):
I see less-than-a-quorum meetings on the street corners all the time. Nothing new here. It does make one wonder what the senator’s ulterior motive is.
reddrover
