Quincy City Council Election Eve Wrap-up: Some candidates are rotten to the Q – Part 1

Pre election voter frustration?
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Quincy Quarry City Council Election Wrap Up: Some candidates are rotten to the Q.

With apologies to Shakespeare’s original and while several of this year’s ward council seat races outcomes could prove to be significant game changers, Quincy Quarry has finally gotten around to covering what has been the biggest snooze of a local election campaign season in years.

Key to this year’s election campaign’s quietude is that the pygmy elephant in the room is not running for reelection this year given the extension of the local mayoral term in office from two years to four years two years ago.

That and how the pygmy elephant would appear to be encouraging that the least possible number of unhappy voters as possible head to the polls and so making his vassals’ votes thus also have more weight than they should.

In any event, starting with ward council races, both of the candidates running for the open Ward 1 seat are good peoples; more importantly, either would be a major improvement from current incumbent and number one local ward heeler who has opted to run for an at Large seat and so avoided the very real possibility that she may have been turned out of her current seat.

Washing up on the rocks?
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Next up is the Ward 5 race.  In spite of major support from popular current Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, her own name recognition as both a multiple term incumbent and the current City Council President, incumbent Ward 5 City Councillor Kirsten “Ariel” Hughes is facing a dog fight this election season even if her opponent is running a bare bones grassroots and lightly-funded campaign. 

Simply put, Ariel’s key problem is that she has all but ignored her constituents since she was first elected and there is no greater sin to be committed by a ward councillor.

The late former incumbent
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In the Ward 6 race, two heavyweights who are said to spend too much time on bar stools are facing off against each other.  Then again, such seems to be incumbent upon the person in the Ward 6 council seat.

In any event, the rookie incumbent backed into office after the then incumbent beat him by a considerable margin, only to then die suddenly before he was sworn into office. 

That and how the current incumbent has consistently backed Mayor Koch with the amiability of Golden Retriever puppy and the mayor has thus backed him for reelection.

Unfortunately, his opponent has not exactly impressed anyone either at Quincy Quarry or among the Quarry’s ever growing legions of loyal readers as well as ears on the increasingly mean streets of Quincy in what would have otherwise likely been a perhaps easy seat for the taking.

Finally, the incumbents in Wards 2, 3 and 4 have been sufficiently doing their jobs such that they are seeking reelection while unopposed.

Needless to say, Quincy Quarry will be watching closely the three contested under card ward councillor seat races as its hard-bitten team drinks heavily as well as probably late in the night on election night.

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