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Secret Service Special Edition MIA Saturday AM
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Quincy Mayor’s City Ride missing and then found by Quincy Quarry!

Quincy Quarry News’ eagle-eyed personnel miss little, if anything, and thus both yesterday and again today Quincy Mayor Tom Koch’s de facto VIP ride was found to be missing from its usual after-hours and weekends parking space in the CIty Hall VIP parking lot behind Quincy’s glass City Hall.

The mayor’s City Ride is a full-sized black Chevy Tahoe Secret Service Special Edition featuring leather seating.

That and other such optional upgrades and features, including a special motorized gas and brake pedals adjustment system to accommodate those who are vertically challenged.

VIP City Ride
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No word, however, if it is also bulletproof.

In any event, it is Quincy Quarry’s understanding from one of its many sources both high but mostly low that the mayor also enjoys a car allowance.

Accordingly, the Secret Service Special Edition style SUV is thus said to be creatively expensed upon long hard-pressed local taxpayers as essentially a motor pool ride supposedly for the shared use of certain of those dining at the public trough at City Hall even though Mayor Koch has for years been all but the only person who uses this City Ride as well as its predecessor.

In turn, such is surely why the SUV has long been left parked overnight and over weekends in the City Hall VIP parking lot.

Still missing on Sunday
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Accordingly, when Quarry personnel found the mayor’s de facto City Ride missing Saturday morning, things went to Code Yellow in the Quincy Quarry newsroom. 

After all, such a ride would be gangsta if stolen, if not also ideal as a gangsta ride no matter who is driving it.

As such, going with Code Yellow was only reasonable as a first step as perhaps the mayor was out cruising the streets of Quincy Saturday morning to see their condition after Friday’s snowstorm, and thus true four-wheel drive was clearly needed as opposed to less able all-wheel drive.

Then Sunday morning when the SUV was still not to be found in the City Hall VIP parking lot, things were then duly moved up to Code Red status as well as the Quincy Quarry News City Editor then ordered a second check be made late in the afternoon.

In turn, the Mayor’s City Ride was so yet again found to be MIA from the City Hall VIP parking lot.

NO VIP parking spot for a change
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Even so, rather than filing a concerned citizen third-party missing vehicle report with the Quincy Police Department and so move things up to DEFCON One, the city editor instead ordered a driveby recon run on Newbury Avenue and Quarry personnel so found the Mayor’s City Ride parked outside of the mayor’s house.

So what, apparently, for the fact that – technically as well as again – it is the Quarry’s understanding that this SUV is on the city books as a manner of motor pool ride as opposed to as an officially designated mayoral City Ride as – again – it is the Quarry’s understanding that the mayor receives a car allowance.

Then again with political office comes perks, especially in Quincy even if potentially problematic.

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