Quincy Mayor Koch spending big bucks on campaign consultants

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– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News.
Quincy’s embattled incumbent Mayor Koch is spending big bucks with high cost campaign consultants.
While merely but taking out papers to run for reelection was only possible as of the first of May, the Koch Committee has already spend over $25,000.00 on just campaign consultants this year in the hope of staving off defeat in this fall’s elections.
In turn, this spending represents over 25% of the Koch Committee’s spending to date  this calendar year – or at least that spending which has been officially reported.
This massive spending also repeats a standard practice of the Koch Maladministration: the reliance on multiple as well as mostly expensive hired gun consultants.

Reasons for the usual free spending ways include the obvious one – that the embattled incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch is going to need all the help he can get to stay in office.
Alternatively, perhaps he is shopping for a consultant who will tell him that the consensus on the street is mistaken.
Regardless of the surely myriad of reasons for such substantial spending, almost ten thousand dollars has been paid out to DAPA Research Inc – a major polling research data provider.

Another ten thousand has been paid out to other consultants by the embattled incumbent Mayor Koch’s campaign fund.  This additional outlay was all but equally split between political consultants The Blue Lab Group unit at The Liberty Square Group and The Dewey Square Group.
Purported political moxie of both of these clearly partisan Democratic Party candidate campaign advisers notwithstanding, apparently both have failed to pick up on the fact that embattled Mayor Koch endorsed Republican candidate and now Governor Charlie Baker in last November’s election – or at least are looking the other way as regards this party betrayal which has not played well with at least some local Democratic Party activists.

Both have also apparently at least overlooked the fact that many labor unions, the traditional backbone of the Democratic Party, are very actively protesting Mayor Koch’s broken promises as well as also actively seeking to see him voted out of office care of this fall elections.
Further problematic for the embattled incumbent, while Mayor Koch may have Charlie Baker, Dewey Square and Liberty Square in his corner, he continues to not be able to do much with Quincy Square.
Additional financial flailing includes that the Koch Committee has  spent at least another five thousand with a local freelancing political consultant.

The Koch Committee has also paid out in a several thousand dollars more for e-media marketing and web development services with a corporate relative of the Patriot Ledger, a commercial connection which neither have formally – much less openly – acknowledged as well as further crosses the line past the usual remunerative campaign ads placed with media.
Besides the obvious reason for such considerable early spending in advance of to be expected massive additional spending, various Quincy Quarry resources suggest that the retaining of multiple consultants – while conversely apparently dropping its longtime political consultant Regan Communications – include casting about as widely as possible to attempt to find some positive news about the duly embattled incumbent’s chances come election day.

Regardless, the Koch Committee is clearing gearing up for record-setting spending in this year’s mayoral elections well in excess of its previous record spending of $290,969.00 in the 2011 election – and so spending over seven times what was spent by his last minute, hard campaigning but modestly funded opponent.
Quincy Quarry resources project that the duly embattled incumbent is likely to be planning on spending upwards of $500,000.00 this year, whatever is the final actual figure actually spent by him will surely blow past both the current local campaign spending record as well as also blast past going away this past winter’s just barely record setting snowfall on both an absolute as well as a percentage basis.

After all, as Koch Maladministration spokesmodel Chris “Pinnochio” Walkbacker said recently after yet again more than a few too many, “we’ve got to protect our phony baloney jobs.”
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