Quincy Mayor Koch defends stand against Sanctuary on WBZ but nobody cares …

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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch defends his stand against Sanctuary on WBZ 1030 AM but apparently nobody cares …

Yesterday evening Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch appeared on conservative talk radio show host Dan Rae’s NightSide show to defend his all but unique stand among middling and more important Massachusetts Democratic elected officials against providing sanctuary to undocumented immigrants.

In spite of appearing in the coveted first hour of Rae’s weeknights radio show, however, only show host Dan Rae was both outspoken on the subject of sanctuary as well as supportive of Quincy’s DINO Mayor Koch as none of the callers offered up even but tepid positions or questions one way or another about sanctuary. 

Quincy was actually once great?
A Patriot Ledger photo

That and the Quincy Quarry newsroom crew was at least somewhat surprised that Mayor Koch did not use his time on Rae’s radio show to announce that he was cutting ties with the Democratic Party and becoming a Trumpster.

After all, Mayor Koch desperately needs federal funding for his long foundering dream to make Quincy Great Again.

As it instead turned out, only seven listeners called in during the show – roughly only half of the usual number of callers calling into ask questions of a NightSide guest – as well as that apparently all callers calls were aired during the hour Mayor Koch was in the studio and so available to callers.

Accordingly, Quincy Quarry rather doubts that Mr. Rae will be inviting Mayor Koch back anytime soon as Rae was surely expecting both highly opinionated, if not also volatile, callers calling in as well as boffo listener ratings. 

After all, we are talking conservative talk radio.

And as for the callers, one had to listen longer into the show for the first call and which turned out to be a cloyingly hagiographic one from someone who identified himself as a City of Quincy Parks and Forestry employee.

Property taxes aren’t that high in the Q – honest …
A Facebook photo

The second caller, however, called the mayor on his (greater to much greater than regional as well as statewide, ed.) property tax increases and which are something that Quincy Quarry has addressed previously as well as often.

The third was another vapid sycophant and the fourth was someone thanking the mayor for inexplicably throwing some (taxpayers, ed.) money (likely but a few thousand dollars, ed.) towards yet another likely to be losing legal challenge by the City against the likely to be approved permitting by the feds of a natural gas line compressor station in Weymouth.

The fifth was yet another homer even if he currently resides in Wellesley and who mostly reminisced about nonagenarian as well as former Lieutenant Governor and later State Attorney General Francis Bellotti.

A Quincy Street sign says it all
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

The sixth caller – a Dorchester resident, however, was critical: he was annoyed about the lack of street name signage in Quincy and which is a topic at least generally close to those often covered by Quincy Quarry. 

So lacking was the street signage that the caller said he ended up in Weymouth when he was looking to go somewhere in Quincy Center.

And the final caller called in to reminisce about the year that he and Mayor Koch were students in the same grade at the oddly named Boston College High School. 

Mayor Koch, however, only lasted one year at the academically rigorous Jesuit school and then went on to have what is said to have been a less than stellar academic career at North Quincy High School as well as later dropped out of then Quincy Junior College.

Going one, going twice, going away for a long time
A longtime bad Koch habit

Even so, Mayor Koch did not miss out on a chance to mention his since literally childhood bff Dan Flynn – who is currently awaiting sentencing in US District Court over his defrauding others of many millions of dollars –  and who also attended Boston College High School and so as to one can only assume try to help fill the otherwise all but dead air during Koch’s segment on NightSide.

Granted, it said that there is no such thing as bad publicity, but Mayor Koch’s appearance on WBZ 1030 arguably came close to being the except to the rule.

On the other hand, appearing on the radio was probably the best way to go for someone with a face for radio.

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