Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: The State of the Q suc*s!

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While Quincy Quarry’s political desk is still reviewing video of Quincy Mayor Tom Koch’s first annual State of the City address in two years so as to spot a few highs but mostly lows to feature in the Quarry’s pending coverage of the address, a brief sampling of what to expect follows.

For an opening highlight, if not also the only possible highlight, one has to assume that Mayor Koch’s Director of Operations Helen “Wheels” Murphy clearly did her best in her role as the mayor’s event planner to see that as many of the political class and hacktocrarcy were in attendance.

Quincy’s bon vivant and prevaricator nonpareil, left
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Wheels also looks to have managed to keep track of all the attendees so that Chef of Staph, bon vivant, and event master of ceremonies Pinocchio Walkbacker could then blew smoke up the food chain and then steadily increase the dumping of shade on those lower on the list of those in attendance as well as at least one not in attendance.

Even more appalling, however, was how the number of those mentioned who were in attendance went on and on and on even more.

Then again, it is an election year and thus Mayor Koch needs to incent his sign holders and door knockers with something on top of his already handing out innumerable no heavy lifting jobs.

How many were mentioned?

Rock Island Road Lobster
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So many that Pinocchio even mentioned the long out of office but still not long enough former Ward One ward heeler who at last report was dining at the trough at a decently paying but insignificant state job while she been conversely long been listed as unemployed in Mayor Koch’s monthly OCPF campaign finance reports.

Do be sure to note that one can readily, if not also oh so ironically, make a solid case that both of these reports can be true at the same time.

And as for those in attendance, not only was the City Council Chamber in Old City Hall packed to the rafters in the balcony cheap seats, the crowd was for the most part as lily white as the annual Ku Koch Klub summertime barbecue.

Iman Kalid Nasir
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While there was a wee bit of diversity among those in attendance, lining up Imam Dr. Khalid Nasr, a highly educated as well as well-respected religious leader to deliver the closing blessing was still all but impossible to view as anything other than a late add, if not also a sop to Quincy’s likely minority majority and thus highly diverse community.

After all, at Monday’s City Council meeting council members submitted a formal call for the Koch Administration to explain why it has so far failed to fill the budget-funded Community Liaison position so as to help effect equity and Inclusion locally, especially given ongoing race-based incidents in Quincy.

Further, one council member announced her pending resolve calling for Mayor Koch on – well – a patent lie as well as other such things.

Anonymous is both part of the name and a key premise of Alcoholic Anonymous
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The lie?

For starters, the mayor used the publisher of the weekly publisher to announce that he had bought a property next to Quincy District Courthouse to use an Alcoholics Anonymous meting place a month earlier.

So what, apparently, for the AA’s notion of the importance of anonymity for its members.

And as for the core canard, in the tabloid Mayor Koch was cited as saying that he had tapped the last of his $46 million American Recovery Program Act cookie jar to fund his latest unilateral and thus  likely improper land buy that ran $1.8 million; however, the city’s books show that he tapped Quincy Center District redevelopment funds to fund the purchase.

Pub crawling in the Q
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Apparently Mayor Koch must view it as only proper for taxpayers to subsidize an AA meeting venue what with all of the pour liquor licenses that have been handed out to restaurateurs operating in the Quincy Center redevelopment district in recent years with even more such licenses sure to follow.

That and how it is also apparently up to him to so “land bank” the purchased property for the state until such time as it might finally opt to build a new Quincy District Courthouse roughly where is the current courthouse..

A 15 acre vacant commercial office use zoned lot
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So what, however, for the possibility that the state might opt to relocate Quincy’s courts to another location that would be more conveniently accessed by those who have to go it for whatever reason.

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