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— Quincy Massachusetts News by Quincy Quarry News – News, Opinion and Commentary
Continuing to pile it higher and deeper …
Image via the San Jose Mercury News
In response to a citizen petition to void his 89% raise per W-2 form and for pension calculation bases, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch has hit the stump to endeavor to defend his scheduled pay raise come New Year’s Day 2025 to a salary among what the top handful of major cities mayors nationwide are paid as well as more then Massachusetts’ governor, its two United States senators as well as the mayor of Boston.
So what for the fact that if you are faced with having to try to explain the inexcusable you are losing, however.
Just ask Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor.
Have I got a story for you!!!
Image via a Koch campaign mailer
And as for where Mayor Koch hit the stump?
Via a friendly interview in the always accommodating — if not also obsequiously so — local weekly tabloid, the tabloid allowed Koch to fully control the narrative and so then shovel fractional truths as whole truths per his well-practiced modus operandi.
For example, he foisted blame upon the City Council for failing to hold a public hearing about his stupendously outsized pay raise when it was under consideration by the City Council right before the City Council was about to head out for summer vacation as well as looking to grift themselves a fat 49% pay raise.
Similarly ducked were all manner of his shortcomings and scandals.
In any event, as not even Quincy Quarry News has the bandwidth to list all of Mayor Koch’s recent shortcoming and scandals, following are but a sample of one to hit the fan over but a few recent months.
“WTQ?!?!”
A file photo
The Massachusetts Appellate Court essentially found recently that the City of Quincy to have committed essentially grand theft land of the land underneath the Adams Academy building and so in due course the city is facing having to come up with somewhere likely in the range of $15 million and $20 million or perhaps more to buy the land as well as make amends for illegally seizing control of the land from a trust fund that benefits a school for girls several years ago.
In short, Mayor Koch was found to have ultimately robbed teenage school girls as well as is essentially continuing to bullying them.
“Is that a wiener??”
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But not to worry for Tommy as he will not be covering the likely to be multi-million tab out of his own pocket.
Next up, one of mayor Koch’s nephew’s was recently pressed to resign from the Quincy Police Department over his arguably predatory and worse behavior involving an emotionally problematic female, misdeeds “investigated” half a dozen years ago but then apparently “forgotten.”
A female who is under the legal guardianship of her parents and living in a group home facility.
This same nephew was earlier found by the Civil Service Commission to have been improperly greased on to the police force as well as that the commission subsequently found had also occurred when Koch’s older son was hired to be a Quincy police officer.
“Enough already”
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Further, a now former City of Quincy senior manager who is or at least now was a long-time BFF of the mayor is also currently under investigation by the feds over financial improprieties.
And as for hard hits to the checkbook of local homeowners, they were hit with an average 8.3% increase in their property tax bills given a final duly calculated 10% spending increase in FY 2024 — with both increases significantly greater other communities — care of Quincy’s free-spending mayor.
Additionally, similar outsized increases are looking likely to hit the fan during the rest of the decade care of koched-up and often profligate spending already set to the hit local taxpayers in their pockets care of Quincy’s peerless mayor in coming years.
Who would question that the Lord Mayor of a teeming world-class metropolis, a center for high-finance, a hub of higher education, state of the art medical facilities, the performing and visual arts, as well as international politics — like Quincy — should proudly entitle himself to an obscene 89% raise? And the city council, a group of greedy butt-kissing thieves — after rubber-stamping the Lord Mayor’s money grab, saw fit to help themselves to the dregs — a measly 49% raise.
Also, giving the city away to certain well connected developers certainly rates quite high on the greed and avarice scale. All at the taxpayers’ expense.
But he DESERVES it, he said so himself. And the bobble heads on the council must deserve their cut of the action — just ask them.
Respectfully, don’t insult boobleheads. Baseball bobbleheads anyway.
Mayor Koch, you truly are the gift that keeps on giving. It’s almost endearing how you keep attempting to justify that eye-popping pay hike. Sure, because nothing says “public servant” like a massive salary boost during these trying times. Maybe next time, try sprinkling in some reasons that don’t make it sound like you’re auditioning for a role in a reality TV show about the most out-of-touch politicians. Who knew public service could be so lucrative? Keep it up, and soon you’ll need a police escort just to get through the mob of taxpayers waving their inflated property tax bills at you. Bravo!
You had the chance to get rid of him; but, in typical lazy Quincy citizen fashion you voted him and his sycophants back in. Just like the Trump fiasco, you deserve what you voted for.
Simon,
In fairness, Koch’s raising over a million dollars from mostly out of town and often special interests that he then spent to buy his reelection does factor into the equation — Koch spent roughly 9 times what his opponent spent as well as multiples of what the next most spent by ANY other mayoral candidate in the Commonwealth other than mayoral candidates in eight times larger than Quincy Boston. That and yet again foisting a false narrative campaign.
We need to have a recall election to oust this pompous ass! He suffers from pleonexia, his avarice is only exceeded by his corpulence. Recall the rubber stamp council as well. Word.
Kevin,
Thanks for the word of the day (“pleonexia”)!!!