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Quincy Quarry News dimed with Boston Public Library’s response to Quincy Mayor Koch wanting to check out John Adams’ books
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Quincy Quarry has collected many dimes over the years care of its sources both high but mostly low, but this latest diming with a public record document is worth at least a silver dollar.
That and so giving rise to yet another Quincy Quarry scooping its media brethren.
The scoop: a copy of the clear, considerable and compelling two page letter sent by the Boston Public Library that was sent to Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch and which essentially told him to pound sand as regards his demanding that the Boston Public Library turn over to him President John Adams’ priceless personal library.
Writing and rewriting late into the night
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The letter was clearly both team-written as well as carefully vetted by attorneys.
The letter addressed key demurs of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch seeking to permanently check out the President John Adams’ book collection from the Boston Public Library’s special collections neutered Koch’s demand, if not also him.
For example, a compelling argument that the City of Quincy has no legal standing to seek to see the books turned over to the City of Quincy.
Specifically, how the books were shipped to Boston for conservancy and custody in 1894 made by the Adams Temple and School Fund.
Mayor Koch’s court room defense team
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At the time, the then Town of Quincy was the trustee for the fund; however, in 2011 the City of Quincy was stripped of the trusteeship for cause.
A judge duly sacked the City of Quincy in 2011 over how city fathers had for decades at least sorely mismanaged the trust, if not not also arguably looted it, and so by extension tapping assets of the Adams Temple and School fund trust that were only supposed to help educate school girls at the Woodward Academy.
Concurrently, the City of Quincy – meaning ultimately local taxpayers – was ordered to pay out millions in damages so done to the trust by city fathers.
In turn as well as of particular pride to the Quincy Quarry News’ legal and other affairs desk, many of the Boston Public Library’s other points were very much aligned to points made by Quincy Quarry before the letter came into the Quarry’s possession.
Drink the Koch Aid
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Also amusing was how both Mayor Koch’s official presentation at his presser ten days ago about his ultimately vague plans for an Adams Presidential Center included statements about Boston’s response did not reflect the letter.
In fact, all but not at all reflected the Boston Public Library’s response to Mayor Koch’s demanding that Boston turn over Adams’s books to him..
Even more amusing was his change of heart reported on Monday past that his previous statement that he did not need to have the President Adams personal book collection for his proposed Adams Presidential Center took a 540 degree turn as he stated that he now intends to sue the Boston Public Library so as to endeavor to return books to Quincy.
Say what?
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Apparently, his handpicked opening board of directors and such for the proposed Adams Presidential Center told he that control of the books was necessary to (perhaps, ed.) see the center funded to the tune of the likely needed several hundred million dollars.
So what, apparently, for the fact that it would clearly appear that the City of Quincy does not appear to even merely but have standing to file a lawsuit to assert scoring possession of the books, much less has Mayor Koch raised much – if any – of the upwards of $250 million or more that it would take to both build a proper to house the the books in Quincy was well as endow the operations of such a facility, including the considerable cost of conserving the books for posterity..
He’s got to be kidding …
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In short, in a recasting of a famously admonition, the Boston Public Library looks to have both the facts and the law in its favor whereas Mayor Koch has been left to but pound the table with his apparently baseless claim that “Quincy holds “(t)he moral high ground.”
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He must think everyone else in the world shares his fantasies of grandeur.
Can the Mayor of Quincy be removed by a recall vote? If so, now is the time to recall him before wastes millions more of taxpayers money on stupid lawsuits!
John,
Hate to be the one to tell you, but when the local mayoral term of office was boosted from two years to four years awhile back, it is my understanding that a recall provision was not included.
Surely inadvertent, however.