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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Few things are more rotten than lame ducks.

This year’s local election season finally wrapped up this week, much to the relief of innumerable long suffering locals as well as in turn setting the stage for all sorts of new sorts of suffering payback for at least certain of those among the local hacktocracy.

First up, however, there were two big winners on Election Day.

Anne Mahoney upped her always hardworking pace in the at Large City Council race after a close fourth place finish in September’s primary to secure for herself the second at Large council seat care of this week’s General Election.

Anne makes a big comeback!
A Committee to Elect Anne photo

And for the second big winner, incumbent rookie at Large City Councilor Nina Liang also stormed back in an epic comeback.

Ms. Liang had suffered withering as well as undeserved attacks as well as a not so close fifth place primary finish, only to also make a strong sprint at the finish to take the final seat as well as do so going away from the rest of trailing well behind pack of those who finished out of the money.

Additionally, Dave McCarthy sailed to a widely expected easy win in the Ward 1 race to fill a vacancy care of Quincy’s long ongoing Number One Ward Heeler opting to undertake a subsequently failed run to fill an at Large seat.

Another strong finisher
Image via Creative Mornings

And as for other ward races wherein the incumbents were challenged but barely survived, it is Quincy Quarry’s view that while these incumbents retained their seats, they still came away looking to have to mend a lot of fences.

That and watch their backs or face ending up washed out to sea care of the next election.

And as for who was Quincy’s biggest loser on Election Day, there are three contenders.

First up is long time local official Dan “Spanky” Raymondi. 

Probably not laughing now
A file photo

Spanky was seeking to return to the City Council following his recent departure from the well-paid post as the Commissar of the Department of Public Works. 

As such, Spanky spent upwards of $130,000 on his campaign with money that was squirreled away in his campaign war chest over the years.

In turn, this considerable sum was roughly what was spent in total by all of the other fourteen candidates running for a seat on the City Council, only to end up for naught as Spanky fell to a well out of the money fifth place finish after enjoying a strong second place finish in the primary.

The next contender for Quincy’s biggest loser is now lame duck Ward 1 City Councillor Margaret LaForest. 

Talking up what no one was buying
Image via quincy.com

Quincy’s longtime Number One Ward Heeler worked long, hard as well as pretty much full time in recent months on her run to go Large regardless of the fact that she also is making big bucks from a city-subsidized and so-called full time job at the Quincy Chamber of Commerce.

Even so, Lost in the Forest not only lost, she only barely did less badly than did Spanky in spite of having Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s formal endorsement as well as that most of her campaign spending handsomely funded by developers.

Obviously, she is oblivious of the Koch Curse.

That and how locals are ever-increasingly becoming fed up with out of control development in the Q and for which the ward heeler has long been the Koch Maladministration’s head cheerleader.

Curses, foiled again …
An old Facebook photo

Wicked fed up, as a matter of fact.

And such brings us to arguably the biggest loser on Election Day even though it was not on the ballot this year: The Koch Maladministration.

Not only has Mayor Koch lost his always loyal to many faults Number One Ward Heeler, his other two also compliant vassals on the City Council came away badly chastened from near political death experiences.

As such, one can only reasonably assume that both of them are sure to be at least occasionally gun shy going forward as regards pimping at least the mayor’s most blatant excesses.

Banzai!!!
Image via Inside Kyoto

What remains to be seen, however, is will the two new fresh faces and the widely unexpected reelection of Ms. Liang prove sufficient to provide an effective counterweight to Quincy’s large body in City Hall?

Needless, count on Quincy Quarry to cover future events in the likely to soon become a dohyō inside of the City Council chambers as well as doing so as only the Quarry has the stones to do.

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