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Tough luck yet again Quincy
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just when one might think things could not become any hotter for Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court yet again ruled against the Koch Maladministration and so further heated up things for Quincy’s peerless mayor.
In this latest instance from among the Koch Machine’s multiple failed appeals to the Supreme Judaical Court on a variety of legal disputes, the court justices upheld trial court rulings against the City of Quincy’s Conservation Commission for improperly denying Boston one of the permits needed to rebuild the bridge per the State House New Service and which was then covered by the ever decreasing in size South Shore broadsheet.
The City of Quincy’s legal team
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Unmentioned by State House News, however, this adverse ruling is to the best of Quincy Quarry News’ understanding the last supposedly consequential appeal by the Koch Machine legal team to koch-block rebuilding the bridge is an already rejected by a trial court judge ask that the court consider a request for the court to consider an ask to undertake a not required Environmental Impact Report (‘EIR”) for the planned bridge.
In this instance, an EIR is not needed for reasons ranging from the fact that the City of Boston is merely planning to rebuild its bridge on its dime to the fact that Boston has or soon will secure approvals from various other entities such as the Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, MassDEP that are far more capable entities than the City of Quincy to assess such things as the planned bridge rebuilding.
Boston Legal shark circling the chump in the water
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Next up, will US Attorney Rachael Rollins opt to sue the City of Quincy over alleged civil rights violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act given the Koch Maladministration’s long endeavoring to koch-block the bridge so as placate Squantum NIMBYs.
Given the civil right angle, if US Attorney Rollins opts to sue the City of Quincy and then win such a lawsuit, Quincy taxpayers could well find themselves hit by a punitive damages lawsuit by the City of Boston seeking treble damages on the amount of costs it has incurred care of the Koch Administration’s attempts to koch-block Boston’s plans to rebuild its bridge.
Quincy taxpayers are known to be, well, feisty
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How large an award might be possible if Boston is able to successful sue the City of Quincy for damages?
So large that Quincy taxpayers could end end up stuck with the bill to rebuild the bridge but have nothing to show for it such as recreational access to Long Island or merely but a traffic plan to mitigate the impact of resuming traffic to and from the island.
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The ill-conceived and expensive fool’s errand of attempting to prevent the city of Boston from replacing, accessing, and utilizing its own property certainly puts the Q in quixotic territory. A costly and obvious ploy to garner votes in Ward 6.
Yes, I’m being kind.
I think you’re right. In a sense, this ruling doesn’t phase the Koch regime at all — this entire soap opera isn’t really about the bridge anyway. I don’t think he gives a damn whether the bridge is rebuilt or not. It’s about getting the voters of Ward 6 to vote for him. He thinks they’ll appreciate his willingness to waste so much time and city resources (read taxpayer dollars) for the nimby’s at Marina Bay and in Squantum. I don’t think it could be any clearer.