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Quincy Ward 1 City Councillor is out among the drifts.
In fact, she could be looking at some face time face down in one sometime soon.
The Ward 1 Councillor has been said to have spent many an hour riding along with QPD officers out on patrol as snow happens.
That and throwing her weight around during the back to back to back to back some more snowstorms that have turned Quincy into snow-covered tundra.
One of many Ward 1 snow piles
A Quincy Quarry News file photo
In addition to the patently obvious nuisance factor, this well-known nuisance is rumored to be micro-managing the snow removal process all but down to individual snowflakes in spite of her abject lack of any operational authority.
This meddling is especially counterproductive as she has little experience shoveling anything other than bovine byproduct at city council as well as via shamelessly self-promoting Facebook page that more and more readers are instead coming to find to be almost as entertaining as a hard-hitting Quincy Quarry story.
Most amusing of all, however, is her rumored and but self-deluding belief that she can win an at large council seat come November as such would require her offsetting her ever-imploding support within Ward 1 against an already formally announced candidate who has enjoyed multiple successes campaigning for citywide office.
In the meanwhile, her so undermining of the productivity of what little plowing has been done in her ward appears to have blown well past the tipping point.
Among her many detrimental intrusions, her insistence upon police details at the rare snow removal operation in her district comes at a time when most officers are exhausted from covering policing the Q and thus for once have no interest whatsoever in detail duty on the increasingly narrow local goat paths that once were streets, not to mention that the QPD’s nine dog K-9 corps are not sled dog trained.
No longer this well-plowed
A Quincy Quarry Citizen Journalist file photo
Fortunately, there have been some resultant positives, albeit more of the passive/aggressive sort.
The plowing of her own street has surely but coincidentally dropped from its formerly also surely coincidental well-plowed treatment to below average for the far below average plowing of her ward other than on certain streets in the Q and the always kept well-plowed City Hall employee as well as also long suspected free VIP commuter parking lot.
While her neighbors have so also suffered, many are still finding consolation in seeing Karma finally do her thing.
Additionally, there is surely considerable cathartic benefit for those vicariously pondering which snowbank to use to hide a body until the July thaw.
Most beneficial of all, however, surely many plow drivers and perhaps even a number of QPD officers are s discovering that their significant others are not even as half bad they could be and thus will express their heartfelt appreciation when they finally return home – around, say, midweek or so.
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Lol sounds like you have a hair across your butt about Margaret. What neighborhood do you live in? Are you even a Quincy resident? This neighborhood will be keeping Margaret in front. . She is non stop and makes sure our taxes paying for paychecks of city workers gets put to what is needed
Sorry those that usually take it easy with a coffee have to put in extra work. . But. .a state of emergency is what happened. .. ease will come again…i will pay for your next cup of coffee when you finish your payed by my taxes job. .
Ms. Susan “Jim Ray” Smith,
Your last point first: (mis)post what you may, but none of the Quincy Quarry team work at taxpayers’ paid jobs, let alone are so paid by your tax dollars.
You, on the other hand, either can’t spell “paid” correctly or don’t know how to do a simple spellcheck check – although I must note that I personally have can’t do either in the office pool.
In any event, it is only proper to note that the Ward 1 Councillor’s day job is at the heavily subsidized by Quincy taxpayers Quincy Chamber of Commerce.
While perhaps not quite a no-show hack hire job or a direct City of Quincy patronage position, a sniff test can only properly identify an odoriferous odor.
That and rumors all but universally have it that she is not exactly viewed as Ms Congeniality (or effective, ed.) in the offices around her day job work venue.
Returning to your first point: “a hair across your butt?” – this a phrase with which no one at the Quarry has ever heard of in spite of our considerable range of knowledge of insults ranging from Shakespearean to Yiddish to simply snarqy.
Did you perhaps type “across” when you actually meant “up.”
In any event, Quincy Quarry has considerable ties to Quincy, hence the quality and detail of its commentary on matters local.
You, on the other hand, have commented with neither.
For example, as for the neighborhood “keeping Margaret in front,” one can only properly assume that you mean her circle of friends as opposed to Ward 1 overall.
After all, all of what the Quarry has posted in this story was provided to it by disgruntled Ward 1 residents and then vetted per the Quarry’s standards.
As for the current state of emergency that you noted, arguably the very last thing to do when snow hits the fan is to have someone without either germane experience or any operational authority whatsoever meddling in the efforts of those who actually KNOW how to address the emergency.
To the above verities, the councillor has instead proven herself a detriment to Quincy recovering from the current emergency.
Next, as for your claim that she is working non-stop, are you referring to her selective harassment of some on the Neck over parking regulations while letting friends skate on same or are you also including her similarly meddling on building permits?
After all, documentable data are far more consequential than your puerile hagiography.
For but one example of hard data, Quincy Quarry can readily document how Ward 1 residents long and often complained about a negligent and so-dangerous pedestrian situation in Ward 1 to their ward councillor.
Their councillor, however, ignored these valid concerns as well as again somewhat later after someone was struck and so gruesomely killed at this point of concern in front of a handful of grammar school children waiting for a bus.
Oh, and no significant formal effort by her following this fatality are known.
Also note that later another person was subsequently seriously injured at this same dangerous venue.
Moving along, let’s not forget that the Ward 1 Councillor is currently the only sitting councilor with announced opponent for her well-worn seat on the council come November’s elections.
At the same time, you also appear to ignorant of the fact that she is actively considering not running for reelection in Ward 1 and instead thinks that she is all but a shoe-in running for the expected open at large seat opening up given Councillor Gutro’s announced run for mayor.
So what, however, for the fact that the first announced candidate for this expected opening has repeated won citywide elections.
In short, next time do your homework and so avoiding showing yourself to be, well, ignorant.