so billy gave it away to his friend. and miss legion, jimmy carter's mother, used to give me a hard time because i never went to sunday school like the other reporters that i would go to billy and we would sit around and drink beer. well, jimmy carter got elected. and we're all spending three months in southwest georgia while he is preparing his government and it was enlivened that winter by billy carter's candidacy for mayor of plains. wasn't much of a campaign but it was kind of fun. billy carter's first official act, if he is elected mayor of plains today, will be to cut down an artificial christmas tree erected on public land across the highway from his service station. in fact the brother of the president-elect saturday morning, a can of beer in hand, me and the boys were thinking about getting together and chopping the god damn thing down then. he looked scorn fully at the tree a thin, towering, green plastic monstrosity shimmering in the late autumn sun. it was donated to the town and is a symbol of all of the things billy carters thinks are wro