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Who knew that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch was light on his feet?
Not even Quincy Quarry News knew.
In any event, he rolled out the debut of this latest pile of spin via the friendly settings of Koch Omnimedia, formerly known as QATV, and the Quincy Koch, formerly known as the Quincy Sun.
The act premiered on Koch Omnimedia right before the first weekend of the New Year and a second show following all but immediately after the first weekend.
A Quincy Quarry News reporter drinking in another New Year
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A time when most people are recovering from partying in the New Year and thus not much paying attention. Even so, the song and dance number was favorably — if not also obsequiously — reviewed in the Quincy Koch.
The crux of the act?
Trying to put a happy face on how his plans to take the site that is currently home to Planet Fitness via adverse eminent domain as the site for his grandiose plans for a surely going to run solidly into nine figure Adams Family facility and so probably endeavor to tout himself above the second and sixth presidents of the United States are not happening.
Father and I are not amused.
An old photo
Instead, Mayor Koch asserted that a new plan closer to Quincy Center would be rolled out in a few weeks.
Needless to say, unaddressed was why the change even if easy to assume: Mayor Koch would appear to have all but utterly failed to raise the funds needed for his surely nine figure pipedream.
Per a review of the most recent germane Secretary of State data for not-for-profit organizations, only around a million has was noted as raised from private parties and roughly the same in total from multiple local and state government slices of pork funded by taxpayers.
In turn, it would appear that the City Council expressed a rare showing of spine by advising the mayor soto vocce that no way could they survive this fall’s council elections come November if they were pressed into the rubber stamping of likely upwards of a $20 million city debt authorization to be paid off by local taxpayers that would be needed to fund the purchase of the site of the mayor’s latest and sure to be money-losing proposal.
Rules, what rules?
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Then again, with taxpayers already looking to have to fund upwards of $10 million to $15 million to settle Mayor Koch’s illegally seizing of the land underneath the Adams Academy in spite of multiple and various court rulings at all levels of the Massachusetts court system as well as often multiple times, Mayor Koch is on thin ice.
Very thin ice.
So what — apparently — for the so-called “Takings Clause” of the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution.
Then again, the rules are also more like guidelines than actual rules in Quincy.
I imagine that our illustrious mayor could afford a few buildings without needing to raise $$ if everyone who works for him didn’t have their hand in the till. He also needs to stop taking on or keeping employees who have broken the law, it’s just not a good look.
Mayor Koch and his trusty tap shoes, always ready to perform a dazzling routine when the spotlight gets a little too hot. Downsizing the Adams Family Center plans, you say? How quaint. It’s almost as if the initial grandiose vision was just a carrot to dangle before the public, only to pull it back once the applause died down. What’s next? A mini golf course dedicated to ‘modest ambitions’?
Let’s be real, Quincy deserves more than a half-baked tribute to its most famous family. If we’re going to embrace a ‘scaled-back’ version, maybe the mayor should consider scaling back the PR spin while he’s at it. At this rate, the center will be a single plaque in a strip mall with a Dunkin’ drive-thru next door.
But hey, at least his moves are consistent — sidestepping tough questions and pirouetting around accountability. Bravo, Mr. Mayor, for proving once again that in Quincy politics, the show must go on, even if the budget and vision don’t.
More statues is the answer. Kind of like more cowbells.
Forget about the Adams Family Center plans. Our Mayor has eyed that site for a long time and has recently been diligently working on a new alternate plan…for the Koch Family Center. This new alternate plan will be significantly more expensive than the Adams Family Center. However, our Mayor believes the City of Quincy can afford it.
Goobs,
The mayor misbelieves a lot of things.