Quincy News: Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Dead Men Tell No Tales!

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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Dead Men Tell No Tales!

Courtesy of a Citizen Campaign Finance Monitor, Quincy Quarry has been advised of an apparent first for Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s oft-sanctioned campaign fundraising activities as well as his campaign fund’s even more frequently found to be problematic books.

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Digging deep for campaign contributions?
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Per documents shared with Quincy Quarry and which have also apparently been submitted to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, it would clearly appear that someone who died last year contributed to the Koch campaign fund this year.

Apparently, not only can you take it with you, you can also return some back from The Other Side.

Cash leaves no trails
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Further, this same Citizen Campaign Finance Monitor found almost $15,000.00 in campaign donations made by another party who listed her place of employment as a company that official records indicate was subjected involuntary dissolution well before these contributions were made.

Apparently dead companies can still employ people.

And yes, the plurality of this suspect money was contributed to Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s campaign fund.

Follow the money
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How to score these latest Koch campaign fund curiosities is hard to determine at this point; however, what is clear is that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch has been named as by far the most frequently named party in illegal straw contributions Disposition Agreements and fines imposed administratively by the Office of Campaign and Political Finance over campaign funding violations.

At last count, Quincy Mayor Koch has been named in five of the nine so-called “direct source” straw contributors sanctions imposed by Office of Campaign and Political Finance over the last few years and so had to disgorge the underlying contributions.

Just when – exactly – was Quincy great?
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And as for other Quincy Quarry coverage, the Quarry recently ran an extended analytical commentary piece on how the City of Quincy is surely operating with a structural deficit budget.

As such, having a structural deficit poses a strong likelihood that local taxpayers will all but assuredly be Q’ed the time the economy merely but cools given that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch has greatly koched up both annual city spending and debt obligations in his arguably monomaniacal obsession to Make Quincy Great Again.

That and how it would now appear that Mayor Koch want to spend even more on his surely also koched-up and thus expensive birthday plans for Quincy 400.

As for upcoming stories, expect at least yet another exposé in the long running Quincy Quarry series of exposés about the myriad of Q’up’s on the still ongoing and running roughly twice as many months late to complete as compared to as initially promised Hancock Street Misalignment Project.