Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Mayor Koch blows more hot air than March blowing in like a lion!

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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Mayor Koch blows more hot air than March blowing in like a lion!

Way more.

Oh what a week it has been as well is looking to be next week.

As the latest list of grifts is too lengthy to be addressed in the Weekly Fish Wrap, only two will be broached.

After all, it’s always a good idea to have a few stories on deck.

Say cheese!
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One is how Mayor Thomas P. Koch responded to the City Council’s call to establish a Department of Social Justice Equity with a shuck and a jive that just hiring some more personnel and moving around a few other current city employees could take of things.

So what, however, for the fact that long diverse Quincy and which is likely to be found to be a minority-majority community per the still ongoing decennial US Census, the City of Quincy has roughly 95% Caucasian employees and which has pretty much been the case throughout the at this point thirteen-year reign of the Koch Maladministration.

That and how it is only proper to note that Mayor Koch stepped in it, BIG TIME, with his profoundly outrageous comments in the wake of perfectly peaceful and proper local Black Lives Matter rallies events in Quincy over the now past summer.

Still waiting to get new carpeting
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How deeply did Mayor Koch step in it?  After years of pretty much ignoring covering Quincy, the Boston broadsheet published a damning rebuke of Quincy’s mayor.

And in further point of damning fact, not only are senior female officials with the Koch Machine few, far between, and for the most part in typically female roles, Mayor Koch only recently appointed the first person of color to head a city department. 

So what, apparently, for the fact that he has been the mayor for thirteen years and during which time city employees have continued to remain roughly 95% Caucasian.

Moving along, what would next week’s State of the City speech by Mayor Koch be without his pimping a grandiose pipe dream, if not also one featuring a proposed scheme rife with at least legerdemain and arguably also seeking to grift a solid for a longtime Friends of Koch at taxpayers’ expense.

Special interests
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The core to the scheme, if not scam: buy at an all but assuredly sweet premium a rundown old two-story Quincy Square commercial building to knock down and then replace it with a new 15 story City Hall and so tallest building in the Q at a location that will surely swive things for years for what few straphangers continue to suffer riding the Red Line.

Surely into nine figures cost to build this latest grandiose edifice complex notwithstanding, it has to be noted that if anyone needs a so boosted high in the sky view, it is Quincy’s vertically challenged mayor.

But wait: there is more behind the curtain!

Then again, when it comes to Quincy, there always is more behind the curtain.  A wicked lot more.

Burn rate, up in smoke – whatever
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The plan includes that a considerable majority of the fourteen-story building will be used to house the long bleeding both red ink and enrollment Quincy College with a home.

That and surely at a fixed as well as a surely sweet deal of a bargain rental rate.

So what if other relatively recent and comparable enough lease deals facilitated by Mayor Koch can only suggest that the rental income received will not fully cover the cost of providing the space to these Koch-favored tenants as well as for the now proposed additional new tenants and so stick local taxpayers with covering the cost of the shortfalls

Then again, such has long been the real Quincy Way.

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