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The heat is on!
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The plucky band of volunteers that came together in recent days to gather signatures of local voters to force the Quincy City Council to vote to cancel their recent approval of an 89% raise for Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch on a pension calculation basis have extended their signature drive from their original July 8 deadline to submit signatures to the City Clerk for vetting to today, July 10.
As of Monday past, close to 5,000 signatures had been collected, a Herculean accomplishment in less than the twenty day official deadline to do so by a group that only just came into being during the dog days of summer.
Mayoral and city councillor pay raise protesters
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive file folder
While the petition’s peeps may not hit the 8,000 bogey by the deadline, Quincy Quarry News has scored an exclusive that the group plans to continue to collection signatures over the summer so as to make a statement to the City Council.
And the statement?
That at least a handful of thousands of local voters will likely remember their brazen grifting of outsized raises for both the mayor and themselves come election day 2025.
After all, locals in general as well as rank and file city workers have not seen such raises.
Not even close.
A typical local property taxpayer
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Plus, surely many local homeowners are livid about this calendar year’s 8.3% property tax increase to primarily cover the nut for Mayor Koch’s net duly counted 10% spending increase care of the mayor’s profligate Fiscal Year 2024 budget;
Further outraging will be the impending increases that will result care of his 2025 budget spending increases, spending increases that city councillors also obsequiously approved.
Further yet, even more tax increases in coming years are impending given already locked in outsized further spending increases.
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Increases largely fueled by massive debt issuances already issued, debt expense increases otherwise set to happen, new debt expected to happen and further other sorts of spending increases yet in due course, not to mention all but assured expensive lawsuits damages awards in the matters of the wrongful death suit in the matter of the Squantum Sucker punching homicide and de facto grand theft land in the matter of the mayor’s illegal taking of the ground underneath the Adams Academy, memories of which one can only reasonably assume that voters’ memories will remain sharp.
Unforgivably as well as razor sharp when the bills come due.
It SHOULD BE better known how Mayor Koch has pressed the so-called Quincy City Council to “Rubber Stamp” the majority of his spending sprees. This Council just affects how they actually have the power of Veto over Hizzoner! 😡
People don’t have money to buy groceries but our council and mayor think it is okay to fleece elderly citizens who retired having never gotten an 80 percent raise working in the private sector. Maybe not even 8 percent in total over 30 years at a job. They don’t get a fat pension every month. Local taxpayers also need to know this money never stops because they will be subsidizing Koch’s pension for many years after he is gone.
The reason? He didn’t take regular modest incremental raises and so steadily fund his pension via paycheck deductions as do others on the city’s payroll and is instead now jacking his high three years of pay to set his pension at a greatly inflated rate in case he isn’t reelected the next time around given a ridiculous salary that NOBODY would ever pay someone without a college degree.
Conversely, well-paid city and town managers typically have masters degrees and often degrees in accounting.
Koch has also long scored huge benefits such as being able to hire and promote friends and family for years. Go down the donor list & you will see the top earners in the city, their family members and those who got promoted. Quincy is the City of Grifters. Two years before certain department heads got their job people already knew who was getting the job. Exams don’t matter. What matters are campaign donations and relationships.
Eventually someone other than Howie Carr will be interested in connecting the dots. Let’s hope for the sake of the citizens it is sooner than later. If Koch thinks he is worth over $200,000 he can put his resume out to the private sector and see what bites he gets. That is if he can handle only making $200,000 on a high school diploma.
Mary,
What would be so bad about Howie Carr chiming in with the Quarry to exposé our peerless mayor grifting himself with probably by far the greatest pigging out at the public trough in the history of such scamming in the history of Massachusetts?
Plus, just imagine Mayor Koch’s mug on the cover of the Herald!
Seriously, don’t be surprised if the Herald runs a regular feature on Koch’s pigging out in the coming days with probably more written up by others to follow.
It seems like every time you turn around, there’s another recall petition making the rounds. It’s almost like a local sport at this point. I mean, why settle for stability when you can have the thrill of constant political upheaval? Kudos to the mayor and city council for making themselves so indispensable that folks just can’t stop talking about them. I suppose running a city is too mundane without a healthy dose of drama. Who needs Netflix when you have Quincy politics? Grab your popcorn, everyone. This season of “Recall Rumble” is shaping up to be a real nail-biter!