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– Quincy News from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
Trump Pence 2020 sign in front of Helen “Wheels'” residence
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Senior Koch Maladministration official supports President Trump’s reelection bid.
Courtesy of a photo sent along to Quincy Quarry News by a Citizen Photojournalist, it would appear that a senior Koch Machine official is publicly supporting the reelection of President Donald Trump given a Trump/Pence 2020 campaign sign in her front lawn.
Then again, Helen “Wheels” has long been know for having a thing about bad boys.
That and for what one can only assume are steel-reinforced stiletto heels.
“Welcome to Massachusetts Mr. Vice President!”
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While her boss, Quincy’s peerless Mayor Thomas P Koch, opted to leave the Democratic Party almost three years and go with unenrolled status on his voter registration as well as more recently stated that he is not a fan of either party’s presidential candidate this year, Mayor Koch did opt to meet Vice President Mike Pence on the tarmac at Logan Airport when Pence flew into Boston two and a half years ago whereas Massachusetts’ top Republican, Governor Charlie Baker, was “unavailable” to do so.
In other words, given Mayor Koch’s insistence on ring kissing, if not also tukas, as well as obsequious fealty by his hack hires, one can thus only assume that he has no problems whatsoever with Wheel’s Trump/Pence 2020 lawn sign.
City workers getting out the vote in Mount Wollaston Cemetery/Ward 7?
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That and a likely suspicion by Koch that Trump will likely enjoy considerable local voter support from Koch’s old Quincy lifers base in this year’s election even if they continue to steadily move along permanently or are at least in the meanwhile receiving their monthly kiss in the mail at their retirement homes in Florida.
It is also only fair to note that Mayor Koch has no sense of any fallibility whatsoever when it comes to spending on his pet projects, especially his so far looking to be less than economically viable long term redevelopment of Quincy Center.
A City on the move needs some Ex Lax®?
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Key problems facing just this particular Koch’s Edifice Complex alone include multiple fits and starts along the way, limited interest by developers other than mostly Friends of Koch who have in total so far already received many tens of millions in incentives subsidized by taxpayers, and the lack of a real plan to develop a truly viable and sustainable economic ecosystem for Quincy Center.
Needless to say, such chutzpah is eerily reminiscent of private citizen Donald Trump’s development experiences, especially his failed casinos in Atlantic City, a business in which the house is supposed to always win.
The expensively carpeted office is almost as over the top as his ego
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Granted, while it is as yet unclear if Quincy Mayor Koch’s overweening Edifice Complex will go the way of many of Trump’s private ventures and so force the City of Quincy into Chapter 9, there is little question that things will become interesting in the late 2020’s.
The reason for the expected excitement? Starting in 2028, the roughly $150 million in municipal debt incurred and already largely spent so as to endeavor to redevelop Quincy Center is currently only requiring a modest annual interest payment, but which will to commence rolling over into many fold more costly principal and interest paying bonds.
Trust me, it will all work out
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In other words, think no income verification subprime mortgage financing with an initial low tickler incentive interest rate circa 2006.
That and how the above noted $150 million in municipal redevelopment debt is both expected to be followed by $100 million more in Quincy Center redevelopment debt as well is on top of hundreds of millions in all manner of other sorts of municipal debt that Mayor Koch has already imposed as well as plans to impose upon long suffering local taxpayers care of other of his projects.
The future of Quincy taxpayers’ money?
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Further problematic for local taxpayers is the crushing and among the worst in the state woeful underfunding of City of Quincy employee pension obligations and other retirement benefits. In turn, these expenses are growing by at least several times the rate of inflation annually and so further fueling a long ongoing structural budget deficit.
Including healthcare benefits, the total unfunded obligation payable to former city employees which local taxpayers are obligated to cover is currently close to a billion dollars in the red.
Quincy Quarry News always follows the money
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Granted, while not technically a Ponzi scheme, Quincy Quarry’s financial and other affairs desk projects even higher City of Quincy budget spending obligations than duly compared statewide averages to likely become crushing for local taxpayers in the late 2020’s and then continuing to at least hurt until roughly 2060 or thereabouts per the Koch Maladministration’s own outside financial advisor on Mayor Koch’s so far very much less than economically compelling redevelopment of Quincy Center.
Huh? Another member of said administration has a Biden sign on his lawn. This article is thin on meat.
Comment Marion: are you unfamiliar with the featured administration figure’s penchant for “meat” and as was alluded to in this article? In either event, Quincy Quarry stands behind all of the reporting in this article.
Marion is familiar with the administration’s reckless spending. Don’t know how a Trump sign on a city employee’s yard (when there are Biden signs on other of the city’s employees’ yards), has any relevance. Also, how does Trump’s business decision to close a failing casino support QQ’s otherwise valid argument that Koch is fiscally irresponsible? As for greeting Pence, that says far more about Baker than it does about Koch.
Marion: Before I forget, who might be the other Kochsters who are instead supporting Biden? Either way, such variability within La Kocha Nostra speaks to sloppy management by Don Koch of his vassals. Next, technically, Trump filed for bankruptcy several times with his casinos before they eventually were taken over by notorious raider Carl Icahn for short money at a bankruptcy court auction of a sort. Finally, with all due respect, Baker begging off given the proverbial excuse of having a prior commitment versus the unenrolled Koch tagging along with Ariel to pander on the pavement is an easy call to make on the déclassé scale.
You don’t give up your first amendment rights as a city employee. Public employees can and do support candidates all over the spectrum. They need to be careful to keep their politics out of the classroom and away from city property but their own front yard is fair game. For a Mayor to decide which candidate a public servant can or can not support is a scary concept. As for Baker dissing the VP, his prior commitment excuse just doesn’t work. What commitment could he possibly have had that couldn’t have been cancelled to meet with the sitting Vice President?
With apologies to the original: Marion, it’s Quincy. While your views on the First Amendment are theoretically correct, the keys to a successful political machine are — in no particular order — votes, getting out the vote, and raising money. In turn, capos should thus abide by their godfather’s sentiments. In the case of the Koch Machine, this is particularly important as Mayor Koch has tried to play it safe as unenrolled. This will only work for so long as ultimately partisanship matters, especially in today’s highly partisan political environment. And as for begging off, per Emily Post, duly sending along one’s regrets even but a vague claim of a prior commitment is acceptable whereas gate crashing when not a invited member of the party never is, if not also is asking to be roughed and cuffed by Secret Service agents.
Seems you are loading us with effect but not enough substance. Mothers support Trump coz they figure their sons have better chance of not getting killed in a war than they would under Biden. That’s only one example of why people voted for Trump that does not fit the stereotypes. I hope you can be more informative and less accusatory. I want to know if anything is actually wrong in this town I recently started to reside. But don’t care about who shakes whose hand. Less rambling long sentences and more facts, please.
DJK: The female with a Trump yard sign is not a mother, much less one of a son. Next, did you miss the noting that she has history of having a thing for bad boys? Seriously, if you were a regular and long time reader of Quincy Quarry, you would know that it has long been an equal opportunity offender when it comes to criticizing politicians who spew bovine byproduct, make bad decisions, waste taxpayers money, and the like. Next, in fairness, both deadlines and column inches limits the ability to both tighten up text or provide detail. At the same time, one can find out a great detail by looking to the Quarry’s body of work or at least by checking out the hyperlinks in one of its stories. For example, how Quincy Mayor Koch has often been officially spanked for accepting illegal straw campaign “contributions,” only to then later provide certain of these illegal benefactors with as much as 8 figures worth of bennies to at least certain of these benefactors. And for another, how the noted Koch Maladministration official in this Quarry story has a documented history of playing, well, “bumper cars” on the now former temporary Fore River Bridge.
DJ- DJT has kept us out of war. After a short amount of time in office he took out Al Qaeda leaders. (Makes you wonder why it took 15 years?) He defused the tensions with N Korea. He brokered a few peace treaties in the Middle East and is working towards getting troops out of Afghanistan. You are correct that mothers know DJT has kept their sons (and daughters) safer than any other President in recent history.
Ms. Morrissey,
With all due respect, President Trump has pretty much maintained status quo as regards our level of military involvement offshore. That and on at least a few occasions he has raised the ire of Pentagon brass over his later moderated proposals for decamping. Also, while pressing NATO members to up their annual defense spending was clearly a good thing, this essential alliance has also been frayed. Next, one can raise all manner of fair questions re his Administration’s strategy in — for but one example — the South China Sea region. Next, engaging in Israeli-style decapitation is fraught with peril for blowback, especially when oil prices might rebound and so allow for the greater funding of intrigue. Iranians play the long game and have even longer memories, etc. And finally, it is only fair to note that a relatively modest percentage of American parents have progeny in uniform. No argument, their service is only to be respected; at the same time, the narrowness of this demographic raises all manner of valid concerns on both sides of this fence.