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The Koch campaign fund management team
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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s most recent campaign fund report filed with the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance triggered Quincy Quarry News to dig deeper into his free-spending ways with his reelection bid in particular.
The Quarry thus found that Mayor Koch has already spent over $425,000 on just campaign consultants this election cycle.
Koch also looks to at least be leaning on spending $500,000 or thereabouts on such consultants by the time his final campaign consultant bill for this election cycle is paid.
Burn rate, burn money — whatever
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For a sense of scale, just the $425,000 spent to date on but campaign consultants by Mayor Koch is almost $100,000 more than what was spent by the top spender in 2019 mayoral election cycle statewide for all of his campaign spending outlays.
For a change, Mayor Koch was not the top spender in 2019 even though in multiple other elections years Koch has spent over $700,000 to buy his reelection and so set Massachusetts mayoral election candidate spending records.Â
Even so, Koch still spent serious money in 2019 even though he was facing a protest candidate who neither campaigned nor spent any more on her bid than basically her filing fees.
The resemblance is uncanny
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Still big spending notwithstanding, Koch only scored votes on 58% of the ballots cast in Quincy in 2019.
This election cycle, however, Mayor Koch looks to be on track to spend as much as a million dollars so as to try to score himself around the 12,000 votes likely needed to win reelection as well as would so break his old records of spending over $700,000 on at least two of reelection bids going away.
That and likely set a new record spent per vote to buy a vote in a mayoral election in a city in Massachusetts other than in the City Boston.
And as for other metrics of extravagant spending, roughly 10% of Koch’s koched-up spending this election cycle to date was spent on his campaign headquarters and would likely run at least a few percent higher if his campaign headquarters’ catering expenses are added into the mix.
Further, the amount spent by Mayor Koch on just his campaign headquarters looks to total up to roughly what his opponent has spent to date in total on her challenge and so underscoring who is the more judiciously parsimonious candidate, including that the challenger has still a relatively sizeable balance in the bank to spend in the final month of campaigning.
Your basic out of town Koch campaign contributor
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Conversely, if not also troubling, is how much of Mayor Koch’s spending is funded by developers as well as overwhelming so by non-local residents when it comes to both his at the maximum allowed donation level receipts as well as in terms of his total receipts.
In short, so much for his Koch for Quincy blather.
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Where does he get the money for this! I’d love to know so I can get some of it too!
Ms. Henson,
As noted in a bit more than just passing in this Quincy Quarry News story, most of Koch’s campaign fund money comes from out of town interests as well as that most of his at the allowed maximum donations come from typically out of town developers or other sorts of special interests.
After all, why not take the money and then do his benefactors’ bidding as pay for play is pretty much legal in Massachusetts.
What is not known, however, is who all are kicking in, much less how much, to the at the least several private foundations ultimately controlled by Mayor Koch as their records are kept under wraps.
Even so, one can only reasonably assume at least some of the usual suspects written checks as well as likely big bucks ones.