Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Stormy Weather and Tomfoolery …

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Another day in Quincy …
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March weather has blown into April. 

The only good news about the weather of late is that the deluge of rain that has fallen so far this spring may bring May flowers.

Unfortunately, there is little to be said about the tomfoolery in the Q this past week.  Not good anyway.

For starters, April Fools’ Day was also designated for the first time as National Tomfoolery Day.

As if we do not already have enough trouble with fools.

Speaking of fools, on Tomfoolery Day Quincy Mayor Tom Koch surely commenced his plans to fool locals with his request of the all but invariably obliging City Council to approve his ask for a $157 million debt authorization so that he can do serious solids to enhance the wealth of connected peeps.

Good luck finding the pea councillors …
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How so?

By primarily using the 157 large to build two sure to be money-losing parking garages capacity to yet again support already rich connected peeps.

in turn, local property taxpayers citywide will so end up stuck with covering much of the bill to build two sure to be money losing parking garages for use primarily by tenants of the peeps’ projects.

Stuck for decades to come.

As in likely at least several decades.

Business as usual in Quincy’s City Hall
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Local taxpayers are also looking at concurrently subsidizing all manner of other things, the sum of which will also primarily help connected as well as already rich peeps to become even richer.

Then again, the purported coming to Quincy Center of a Trader Joe’s store will surely more than make up for the upwards of a $200 million or more net present value deficit.

A deficit that will all but assuredly occur given Mayor Koch’s expensively delayed if not also financially foundering plans for a new Quincy Center.

Follow the money — always follow the money!
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But not to worry! 

Modest annual reimbursements to mitigate the 200 large deficit when $391 million in Quincy Center special tax district debt is significantly paid down is anticipated to probably kick in by around 2060 or thereabouts and then take upwards of a generation to offset a deficit ultimately subsidized by local property tax taxpayers citywide to the primary benefit of various connected as well as typically out of town developers.

Why are these men smiling?
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Then again, it is surely but a coincidence that the connected developers are among the most generous contributors to Mayor Koch’s campaign fund.

Seriously generous contributors.

Wicked serious contributors.

On the other hand, Mayor Koch did spend over a million to buy last fall’s mayoral election, ten times what his opponent spent but who still managed to run a relatively close race, all things duly considered.

Sláinte!
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Moving along, this week Quincy Quarry exposéd how Mayor Koch opted to hold his St. Patrick’s Day soiree at an out of the way and not in anyway, shape or form an Irish watering watering hole in Squantum that is a co-defendant with the City of Quincy in a $8 million wrongful death case and which is located in arguably the last neighborhood in Quincy where Mayor Koch is for the most part perhaps still popular.

Arguably the biggest fools — last week anyway — were the denizens of the Statehouse.

How so?

TOGA, TOGA, TOGA!!!
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They failed pass to legislation needed to override the end of the generally popular allowing of restaurants to include the sale of adult libations with their meals sold for delivery.

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