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Trifectas are nothing new in Quincy.
This week’s trifecta, however, was a bit different, if not taking things to a new low.
For starters, the Koch Machine pressed the City Council to approve a solid for a special interest player so as to endeavor to provide a lease extension of city-owned land that would result in a lease term almost three times longer than what is allowed by Massachusetts General Law.
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Granted, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch seeking to do a solid for a special interest as well as at local taxpayers’ expense is nothing new.
In fact, such has long been standard operating procedure during the also long ongoing reign of the Koch Maladministration.
Even so, what made this solid sought especially amusing was how it was originally predicated on the Koch Machine’s facilitating a special interest group’s plans to develop a 110 full service boutique hotel on top of a duly capped old city garbage dump site on city-owned land, land that has long been zoned as open space, by providing a 82 year land lease term so that the special interest group can protect their investment for three generations.
Caribbean pirates have nothing on Quincy pirates
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Given considerable public criticism of this proposed grift at a rare public hearing held by the Quincy City Council a week early, however, the hotel was taken out of the mix before the first step towards grifting the lease extension was then tentatively approved by the City Council locally last Monday with sought solid now heading to the Statehouse on Beacon Hill for final approvals of a Home Rule Petition that no longer includes the fundamental predicate for approving the outsized lease extension..
Oh, and why is the Beacon Hill in mix?
To seek final approvals as the ask is rife with requests to waive various Massachusetts General Laws.
After all, the local pirates’ code “… is more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.”
Gone away once, now soon going away again?
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In short, the real Quincy Way!
Unclear, however, is if this latest grift is actually going to achieve what it seeks to grift as well as arguably yet again do so at local taxpayers’ expense.
Speaking of the real Quincy Way, for the second strike of the week, Dan FlynnFlam looks to have been at least adjacent to a regional residential real estate company that recently imploded under yet to be made clear circumstances.
Most curiously at least adjacent to the now shutdown residential real estate company.
Last call or plow? That is the question.
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And for the third and final strike of the week, Quincy was hit with its first consequential snowfall of the cold time of the year on the day before the official start of winter.
Needless to say, local streets so ended up icy slips and slides as well as local auto body repair shop workers will not need to worry about paying off their Christmas shopping credit card balances next month.
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