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Anne Mahoney, left; Tom Koch, right
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Money may not be able to buy true love but spending over a million to promulgate false narratives and negative campaigning on a mayoral election campaign can score a win.
A million spent to stay in a job that only pays $150,943.00 a year. This fiscal year anyway.
Then again, when it comes to Kochonomics, it all makes sense if one ingests illegal mushrooms after first drinking heavily.
Smoke-filled backroom deals happen …
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That and one can only reasonably assume that public/private alternative revenue streams are possible.
In any event, the final working vote totals were 10,282 for incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch and 8,382 for challenger Anne M. Mahoney.
At his victory party last night at Granite Links, Mayor Koch called it a landslide win; however, a better view would be that the landslide was his roughly nine-fold greater campaign spending tsunami that was largely funded by out of town and typically special interests.
In any event, Quincy Quarry News is now set with four more years of grist for the mill.
Will the natives rise up given soaring tax bills in 2024 and beyond?
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For example, will there be blood when Mayor Koch likely has to impose at least a 7% increase in local homeowners tax bills in 2024 to fund Koch’s near 10% increase in city spending for Fiscal Year 2024?
Further remaining to be seen, for but starters, is how how he spins the only to be expected loses on at least a couple of looking to be expensive for local taxpayers lawsuits.
Also anticipated is how will Mayor Koch tap dance around the City of Boston’s all but certain impending rebuilding of its bridge to Long Island on its mostly already in the bank dimes, unlike the usual creative as well as considerable debt financing griftings of the Koch Maladministration.
Why are these men smiling? The Quarry knows!
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That and more of same when it comes to the Koch Machine’s granting of variances and providing taxpayer-funded incentives to connected developers.
Good article. I wonder how many landlords put Koch signs on their properties even though they live outside of Quincy.
I’m so sad to hear this. Mayor Kochcondo will continue to try turn Quincy into a new Boston. It used to be a heartfelt city with Quincy Center, with shops like Remicks, Child’s World, Cummings, Finians, etc.
My Mom, who worked her ass off as a nurse for years to provide a better home for her 4 Children. She did that. She has taken in So many people, family and friends when they had Nowhere else to go. And now, the house went into foreclose, despite my Mom having done a reverse mortgage. The city of Quincy hit her with $22 000 dollars in Taxes. My Mom was able to get emergency elderly housing, my 2 children and I have nowhere to go, have no where to go but the cold, snowy streets. Yet this asshat is living a high life, while driving out the middle/lower income families that have been here for a long time. Did I mention that my Mom and our family and friends have been in this house for 40 years? Gone!
Homeless!
Very sad! Quincy was always family-oriented and you knew your neighbors. Everyone helped each other and the schools were fabulous. Biggest mistake was closing Quincy Hospital! What good are these apartments when people have to go outside of Quincy for medical services? Koch is a money monger! Quincy Square is a mess! Your father would be ashamed Tommy!
Anne Mahoney will be sorely missed as a Councilor at Large. She was a clear voice advocating for the people of Quincy.
Koch, on the other hand . . . never mind, I’m censoring myself.
If it doesn’t effect him he doesn’t care.
Last week, FBI agents seized the cell phones and iPad of New York City Mayor Eric Adams as part of a federal investigation into campaign financing pusuant to a court authorized search warrant. Have they seized Mayor Koch’s cell phones, iPad and laptop computer yet?
Patience Grasshopper, patience.