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The South Shore broadsheet continues to work the sure to continue to be an ongoing story about Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s now no longer secret unconstitutional plans to see statues of patron saints from his Roman Catholic faith placed on the exterior of Quincy’s impending new public safety headquarters.
So too are the cheeky peeps at A Just Quincy by the way.
Not just once …
But rather five times in total so far with probably even more to follow as things are clearly looking to be heading to court.
For example, stream this A Just Quincy video to see why things are looking to hit the fan.
Banal as well as bad art
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The currently under construction $174 million public safety headquarters is projected to completed and so ready for use come October of this year and including — if not more accurately currently planned to include — two constitutionally proscribed statues and which have further dire unconstitutional problems as they have already been mostly paid for illegally with local taxpayers’ money.
In particular at this point, this time the broadsheet focused on Mayor Koch’s dissing the American Civil Liberties Union’s respectfully asking that Mayor Koch not install the statues as doing so is clearly and variously illegal as solidly detailed here.
The specific rationales cited by the ACLU range from how the statues would clearly appear to violate constitutional mandates for the separation of church and state to Mayor Koch’s further unconstitutional use of taxpayers’ money to pay for statues of patron saints even if they are surely but coincidentally of his faith
The broadsheet also mentioned Quincy City Council President Ian Cain.
As for Cain, Quincy Quarry News can only properly add that he clearly appears to have punted on his oath of office to abide by as well as support the laws of the land.
Using the flag as Kevlar?
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Councillor Cain has also failed to honor his job description to act on behalf of local residents.
Instead, Cain would appear to be at the beck and call of Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch to cover Koch’s ample six given his surely to soon enough be found to be illegal doings as well as in ways further confirming of either Cain’s ignorance of the law or a brazen shoveling of bovine byproduct.
Then again, both ignorant and shoveling concurrently is a distinct possibility and as the following video poses.
I wanted to read through this article because I think you have some valid points, but your lack of proofreading/editing made it virtually impossible.
Carolyn,
Thank you for posing that Quincy Quincy has some valid points to make re the religious idolatry planned to be unconstitutionally installed on a public building and the intertwined also illegal spending of tax money on same by Quincy Mayor Tom Koch.
As for editing, regrettably editing happens whenever Blair’s tuberculosis acts up and QQ rewrite then falls off the wagon.
Accordingly, the latest unpaid Quincy Quarry was tasked to tidy up things as best as was possible with the time available and in light of the complexity of the underlying particulars.
At 5:50 (Five minutes and Fifty seconds) of the YouTube video above, Joe Murphy is saying basically the same thing our City Council President, Ian Cain said in his YouTube video of the QATV AM Quincy interview with Joe Catalano dated 2/25/2025 that Mayor Koch committed FRAUD. How so? Well, Ian Cain said the two statues were not included in the budget or additional appropriations the City Councilors voted on and approved to fund the new Quincy Police Station. This means our esteemed Mayor Koch had to change one or more of the budgeted line items previously approved to come up with the $850,000 funding to purchase the two statutes without informing anyone of making this change. This means Mayor Koch stole $850,000 from one or more line items in the previously approved budget to come up with the $850,000 for the two statues, unless Mayor Koch has contributed his own money to fund this extravagant statue purchase. As the new Quincy Police Station will have new jail cells, I recommend that the first person to be a resident of a brand new jail cell be Mayor Koch when he is arrested for fraudulently stealing Quincy Taxapayer funds. He can tip his hat to these two new statues as he is escorted in by Quincy’s finest.
Goobs,
Please note that there is alternative read of events.
First up, Mayor Koch signed a said to be fixed price contract with Suffolk Construction.
In turn, it would be reasonable to suspect that the price so set was about as svelte as Mayor Koch on top of including the usual contingency figure to cover unexpected overages and such.
After all, such is pretty much his MO with the city’s annual budgets.
Proving such shall we say planning a forethought, however, is a whole other matter.
But not to worry. It would appear possible to pursue holding him personally responsible for the misappropriation of public — meaning taxpayer — funds to pay for constitutionally proscribed idolatry as well as then place it on public property.
Oh, this is rich. Mayor Thomas Koch and City Council President Ian Cain are out here playing PR whack-a-mole, trying to convince everyone that the ACLU coming after Quincy’s statues is no big deal. Just a little constitutional oversight, folks — nothing to see here!
Koch, who treats Quincy like his personal Renaissance faire, has spent years erecting statues like he’s auditioning for a role as the city’s Founding Father. And now that the ACLU has pointed out the minor issue of, you know, the Constitution, he and Cain are doing their best “nothing to worry about” routine. Because obviously, if they act like the lawsuits don’t matter, then maybe the courts will just forget about them too!
Meanwhile, Cain — who usually tries to present himself as the city’s tech-bro-in-chief—has apparently decided that being Koch’s hype man is the way to go. Maybe he thinks if he nods hard enough, people will forget he used to act like he was the reasonable one on the council.
But sure, let’s pretend this is all just some bureaucratic misunderstanding and not a blatant case of the mayor treating public land like his personal religious art exhibit. Maybe next time, they’ll try something novel — like actually respecting the First Amendment before the lawsuits start rolling in.
I want to see the Jewish Star of David on the new police station as well. Need to represent all religions.