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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch rakes in a Christmas season campaign fund donations windfall!
Per the recently filed final Koch Committee campaign report filling of 2020 with the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, Mayor Koch received $89,450.00 in campaign donations in December.
In turn, this was roughly two and a half times more than the but $36,406.30 Mayor Koch scored in the way of campaign contributions during the first eleven months of 2020.
This late infusion of campaign contributions late last month also resulted in a net 48% increase in Mayor Koch’s campaign war chest bank balance and which had been declining every month in 2020 until the December flood of donations turned the tide.
Considerable December cash injection notwithstanding, the yearend account balance was down by 33% from the opening balance as of January 1, 2020 in what was not an election year.
And per a more granular individual campaign contributions review, Quincy Quarry found upwards of as much as $11,000.00 in contributions from parties who have in the past been subject to fines for providing illegal campaign fund contributions to Mayor Koch campaign fund or at least would appear to have ties to parties so fined.
“Follow the money” – always follow the money
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Additionally, as for new contributors to the Koch Committed category, $5,000 comes from family members tied to a family-owned and operated Boston-based real estate company that is seeking approval of all but assuredly all manner of variances needed for it to build its proposed fifteen-story apartment building on Hancock Street in North Quincy near the Neponset Bridge.
And as for the sources of many of the other contributions, they are fraught with city employees, other real estate developers, and various sorts of vendors.
Wouldn’t it be nice if slow Joe took Kochy off our hands!
Here’s hoping that Joe taps Tommy to be Secretary of Labor nominee Mahty Walsh’s Deputy Assistant Under Secretary for Driving Around.
Any hopes of someone getting Koch off our hands ended when Baker chose to pay Koch for favors done the old fashioned way — jobs for F&F. Koch isn’t prime time material (and a Biden administration will be anything but prime), but taking Marty has a particular irony. Marty got to be Mayor not just because he pandered so well to unions; he committed crimes with them. Appointments like this come for serving up votes. Biden didn’t need any serving up from Massachusetts. Marty will, however, bring his criminal skills to help round out the administration. That and bet y’all thought it would be Lynch.
Ms. Maxwell,
Every administration needs muscle — just look at the Koch Machine and which surely needs some. And as for Lynchie, there are still plenty of cushy sinecures still open – for example, the Ambassadorship to Bermuda. Alternatively, there is the soon-to-be open Ambassadorship to Ireland and which will be needing some muscle what with Boris Johnson having totally screwed the pooch on Great Britain’s Brexit exit.
The Koch machine has muscle! Are you forgetting Vinnie?
Quincy Quarry’s bad. It completely forgot about the Q’s Barney Fife.