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Quincy MBTA Project groundbreaking photo-op moved inside given cold weather.

So, Tommy, WTQ is up with your IT department?
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How cold was it on the Monday after the Super Bowl Day Snowstorm? 

So cold that a groundbreaking photo op for a Quincy MBTA project to build a new bus maintenance fatality and storage yard adjacent to a residential neighborhood and near a new $60 million middle school was moved indoors.

While surely most of Quincy Quarry News’ evergrowing legions of loyal readers should not be surprised by anything, this groundbreaking photo-op in South Quincy opposite the Quincy Adams Red Line MBTA station in the former Lowe’s home improvement center building this past Monday surely will leave even some of the most jaded Quincy Quarry readers gobsmacked.

After all, for but starters, one cannot help but wonder if the plan was always to hold this photo op indoors so to provide security from protests by abutters over this controversial project.

Politicians literally shoveling it
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In any event, dirt and concrete were piled high inside, along with a row of sand was laid out to stage this faux de rigueur groundbreaking shovel toss photo op.

Those present to shovel it included Governor Charlie Baker, Senator Elizebeth Warren, Congressman Stephen Lynch, State House of Representatives Majority Leader and Quincy rep Ron Mariano, various MBTA officials, and Quincy’s peerless mayor were literally shoveling it at a photo-op after first shoveling it with oral bovine byproduct at a portable podium set up for this photo-op.

In short, as well as yet again: Only in Quincy. 

Even so, Quincy Quarry News worked the room and so gathered all manner of valuable intel for likely to follow even more hard-hitting to the stones Quincy Quarry News exposés. 

Governor Charlie Baker distancing himself from Quincy Mayor Tom Koch …
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At least as best as could be done when not laughing out loud over it all.

In particular, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker apparently opting to “socially distance” himself from his one-time little buddy Quincy Mayor Tom Koch for reasons one can only assume might be tied to Mayor’s Koch’s brewing financial controls and security problems with the City of Quincy computer systems and financial controls systems.

That and potential problems with the Security and Exchange Commission over the Koch Machine’s flawed due diligence disclosure of an embarrassing $3.5 million cyber heist from the city employee pension fund just as the City of Quincy was about to issue a $475 million pension obligation bond so as to endeavor to bail out the city’s among the very worst in the state municipal employee pension fund.

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