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— Quincy Massachusetts News by Quincy Quarry News – News, Opinion and Commentary
It’s not like it’s my money …
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Per Quincy Quarry News’ touting up the numbers from official Office of Campaign and Political Finance (“OCPF”) reports, through the end of October, incumbent Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch has spent at least $1,030,366.12 on his reelection bid this year and since his last election run in 2019.
Over a million spent on a mayor campaign to score something on the order of the 9,377 votes Mayor Koch bought and paid for in 2019 when he was challenged by a protest candidate who neither spend a dime other than filing fees nor actively campaigned but who still managed to score 3,902 votes without lifting a finger to press her challenge of the Koch Machine.
The at least $1,030,366.12 spent to date by Mayor Koch works out to roughly $110 spent for each vote expected to be bought the election based on the number of votes Mayor Koch bought in 2019 and thus both figures will set new campaign spending records going away for a mayoral election in a small Massachusetts city the size of Quincy.
And as for Mayor Koch’s campaign spending in just October alone, he spent $209,431.78, including $48,002.31 on campaign consultants, and thus just short of twice what his opponent looks to be spending in on her campaign in total.
Special interest money buys what it wants
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In turn, as for funds raised by the Koch Machine in October, yet again the recorded receipts entail many non-Quincy residents as well as that many of the larger “donations” came from special interests such as developers with projects in arguably already overdeveloped Quincy
There was also a $13,280,213.65 bank deposit and then withdrawal from Mayor Koch’s campaign fund bank account.
While the OCPF reports suggest a banking error, both banking privacy regulations as well as today’s publication deadline precluded the Quarry from endeavoring to find out if perhaps the $13,280,213.65 was errantly transferred into the Koch Committee campaign bank account from a slush fund and then returned it to , say, an offshore account in the Caymans or an ersatz cryptocurrency wallet.
And I thought the state of Massachusetts had a spending problem…..wonder what his normal GROCERY bill looks like.
Mayor Koch spent $1,030,366.12 to date on his campaign to become Mayor of Quincy. That is $110 per vote cited in the article above. His campaign fund bank account also had a mysterious $13,280,213.65 deposit and immediate withdrawal. During just October, his campaign spent $209,431.78 including $48,002.31 on campaign consultants in his bid to become Mayor. His campaign has spent all of these funds to get elected to a job with a salary that paid $162,044.69 in 2021 according to web site http://www.masslive.com. The city of 2023 Quincy Adopted Budget lists what I assume is the Mayor’s salary for the 2021 Budget, 2022 Budget and 2023 Approved all at the same $150,943 salary on page # 24, which lists accounts for City General Fund, Administrative & Finance, 121 – Mayor, Account # 510001. I find it very interesting that Mayor Koch has spent $1,030,366.12 to date campaigning for a job that pays $150,943.00. The amount spent to date covers 6.8 years of the Mayor’s current salary. I look forward to seeing the explanation for that mysterious $13,280,213.65 deposit and immediate withdrawal from his campaign bank account. I hope there are some interested auditors.
“I find it very interesting that Mayor Koch has spent $1,030,366.12 to date campaigning for a job that pays $150,943.00“ this quote is misleading and doesn’t really mean anything Koch isn’t spending out of pocket, as I’m sure you know these are campaign contributions. He is T paying 1M to make 150k he is spending 1M of contributions to represent the people who donated
Joe,
First off, you mispresented a passage as well as mistakenly labeled it as a quote.
Next, this Quincy Quarry story is about campaign spending as well as along the way addresses how at least $1,030.366.12 spent by Koch on his reelection bid was duly addressed as campaign fund money.
Finally, sloppy writing by you notwithstanding, did you miss how most of Mayor Koch campaign fund war chest came from people OUTSIDE of Quincy?