Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Yo ho woe …

– Quincy Massachusetts News from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

It’s getting even grimmer
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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Yo ho woe …

To put it mildly, 2020 sucks. 

Sucks big time.

COVID-19 has made life a living hell for all of us.

Even so, as bad as it has been, do remember that it can always be worse.

For example, one could be Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.

Move along folks, nothing to see here …
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Merely but his low lights from just the fourth quarter of this year would send most people screaming into the night.

For but a sampling from among the many hammerings of Quincy’s peerless mayor, a little over a month ago Mayor Koch was yet again named as the recipient of illegal “straw’“ campaign contributions by the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance. 

In fact, this case was hit with a $250,000.00 fine, the second-largest fine ever imposed by the Office of Campaign and Political Finance over political corruption.

Cash and carry
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While the official settlement agreement signed off on by the lead illegal contributor notes that Mayor Koch didn’t know nothing and thus the mayor will only have to disgorge the $15,500 that his campaign fund received in the way of illegal campaign contributions, almost sixteen large is still a serious hit to his already dwindling campaign fund balance.

Even worse, he should know how to surrender the money as – per Quincy Quarry’s unofficial count – Mayor Koch would appear to be the Office of Campaign and Political Finance’s most often cited recipient of illegal campaign contributions.

In fact, Koch looks to be the going away most frequently cited recipient of illegal campaign contributions.

“I don’t know nothing.”
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But yet again, he didn’t know nothing.

Also earlier this month, Mayor Koch suffered yet another whacking care of his tasking his Consiglieri Dim Timmins to ultimately end up yet again continuing his at least near-perfect losing streak in court.

In this latest court loss for the Koch Machine, a Suffolk County judge ruled against the City of Quincy over its found to be an improper denial of the City of Boston’s application by the Quincy Conservation Commission to duly approve Boston’s perfectly kosher application for one of the permits needed to rebuild its now-former Long Island Bridge after it was condemned in 2014 and then demolished in 2015.

Boston seeks to rebuild the bridge so that it can establish a substance abuse recovery facility on Long Island as well as improve access to Boston’s highly-regarded summer camp and leadership program for unprivileged inner-city youth that are also based on the island.

An archetypical Squantum resident?
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NIMBYS on Squantum, however, are playing the role of Grinches over their outrage that the planned resumption of traffic to and fro Long Island will again skirt but a corner of the island and so pass by a couple of dozen of residences as well as a multipurpose community center with a checkered – in fact fatal – history.

So what also for the fact that the projected level of traffic will be less to a lot less than the grandfathered level of allowed traffic from when Boston used Long Island primarily for overnight homeless housing.

That and also apparently so what for the fact that Long Island is at least a mile away from the closest backyards on Squantum.

And finally as well as also earlier this month for a third strike and thus an out, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Kimberly Budd told Mayor Koch to pound sand on his baseless claim that the City of Quincy owns the Adams Academy, the current home of the but rental tenant Quincy Hysterical Society.

Even more money going up in smoke yet again
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Apparently, even after spending upwards of a million on legal fees and upwards of six million or thereabouts in total over the years on previous related legal disputes with the Woodward School for Girls and which the Supreme Judicial Court also decided in favor of the school and thus against the City of Quincy, Mayor Koch foolishly opted to have Dim Timmins give it yet another try.

In turn, per a knowing read of her decision, Chief Justice Kimberly Budd telegraphed between the lines that Mayor Koch should never – EVER – again darken her courtroom door on this or any other related matters.

A word to the wise: never ever annoy her honor
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Fortunately for Mayor Koch, in this matter he is probably clear of any risk for being hit with contempt of court charges should, for example, he opts to yet again push his luck by filing for an en banc hearing of his latest rejected baseless claim and as Quincy Quarry News fully anticipates that he will do.

Accordingly, count on Quincy Quarry News to cover the story when he most likely does opt to so foolishly file.

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