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It is finally time to bag and tag 2020
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Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Time to bag and tag 2020.

This is the time of year when media get lazy and patch together a quick and dirty overview of an about to end year so that they can party on New Year’s Eve and then recover on New Year’s Day.

Truth be told this year, surely at least just about everyone was ready to move on to a new year around June of this year, if not sooner.

How bad a year has 2020 been?

Arguably, calling it the mother of all train wrecks would be charitable.  Way charitable.

And that is just locally.  For but starters, consider the multiple legal disputes facing the Koch Machine.

In just the last month and a half, the Koch Machine has repeatedly had its head handed back to it on a platter by various judges and others.

Enough money usually resolves almost any problem
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A case in point, in November the Town of Weymouth threw in the towel on fighting Enbridge’s rebuilt and upgraded gas line compressor facility on the Weymouth side of the Fore River waterfront after Enbridge offered the Town of Weymouth $10 million upfront with the potential for $28 million more in property taxes over the next twenty years.

Mayor Koch, on the other hand, has burned through at least $100,000 in taxpayer money to fight what even knowledgeable opponents of the upgraded natural gas line compressor pump station knew was not likely to be possible to stop.

That, and unlike Weymouth, Koch has not seen bupkis from Enbridge – much less anything close to what Weymouth is receiving – nor likely ever will.

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Additionally, earlier this the Koch Machine yet again lost in court on another matter – this time in its quixotic bid to stop the City of Boston from rebuilding the Long Island Bridge on its dime. 

At the same time, Mayor Koch has run through at least $400,000 in taxpayers’ money in this losing bid to endeavor to appease Squantum NIMBYS.

Loss in court notwithstanding, Koch has promised to continue to fight Boston in what is all but assuredly going to be an even more expensive losing fight.

No fooling this judge
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Also earlier this month, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly Budd Supreme Justice told Mayor Koch to pound sand over Mayor Koch’s ultimately laughable claim that the City of Quincy owns the Adams Academy building in Quincy Center.

Koch wants to use the Adams Academy building to house the President John Adams library. 

So what, apparently, for the fact that the Boston Public Library has been duly cared for by the Boston Public Library for over 120 years as well as – again – there appears to be no legal basis whatsoever for Mayor Koch to insist that the library to be moved to the Q.

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In other words, one can only reasonably expect yet another round of expensive losing legal expenses inflicted upon local taxpayers because junior college dropout Mayor Koch has a fool for a client.

While City of Quincy financial particulars are not readily available to the public to review, figure upwards of around a million or so in total so down a rat hole to date on just these three most recent koched-up Koch Maladministration City Hall Q-ups with even more tax money yet likely to torched.

Foolishly arguing losing cases
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That and pretty much the same should be expected with other disputes known to Quincy Quarry that are in various states of disputing given the problematic actions of the Koch Maladministration.

Not that these obvious verities will stop Mayor Koch from burning even more local taxpayers’ money fighting these further yet all but assuredly unwinnable legal disputes.

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