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This time the news of the week in Quincy from Quincy Quarry News is serious.

Deadly serious.

Last Monday Quincy Mayor Koch appeared on a local talk radio show so as to surely endeavor to score some area wide support for his currently disputed in court plans to put statues of Roman Catholic patron saints on a currently still under construction public building and at a cost of upwards of a million dollars or so in taxpayers’ money.

During his interview by a friendly and thus soft balling radio show, Mayor Koch went off topic as well as off the rails posing his beliefs that opposition to his religious statues is fueled by lingering media animus fueled by the Roman Catholic Boston Archdiocese’s sex abuse of children scandal.

Then adding even gasoline to the fire, Mayor Koch both downplayed the severity of the abuse for most victims as well as posed that the abuse was mostly a homosexual matter.  

Further gobsmacking, the timbre of his assertions were made in such fashion that one that could only reasonably view him as endeavoring to also distance his church from culpability over the abuse of children as well as he went on to assert without any corroboration that the sexual abuse of children is more to much more often inflicted by teachers, sports coaches, and others who are not clerics.

Mayor Koch also side-stepped the fact that his nephew and son of Quincy’s most recent former police chief “resigned” from his job as a Quincy Police Department detective over inappropriate interactions with an emotionally troubled female who resides in a Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese residence facility as well as who is apparently under legal conservatorship in the wake of his father retiring and then a dime is said to have dropped to the new police chief by someone with grudges against both the former chief and Mayor Koch..

Needless to say, criticism of his sentiments came hard and fast, including numerous calls for his resignation.

No argument, Mayor Koch has long had every right to his opinions.

At the same time, as an elected public official he is thus more open to suffering consequences for foisting untenable claims which add injury to those already victimized.

Koch then only made things worse by posing non-apologies apologies when Greater Boston area media flocked to Quincy for interviews of him in the wake of his outrageous comments.

He also essentially reprized his non-apology apology at a School Committee meeting last Wednesday. 

Note: as mayor, Koch is thus also the Chair of the School Committee.

Then on Friday survivors of childhood sexual abuse by priests peacefully protested in front of City Hall and were asked to tell their stories by reporters covering their protest.

Concurrently to it all, the Boston Herald published an editorial calling for Koch to resign along with a number of individuals variously posing the same sentiments.

Quincy Quarry News concurs with the Herald’s call for Koch to resign as well as those made by members of the public.

The Quarry further feels his departure from office is fully-warranted over all manner of other of his actions.

Additional solid arguments as to why Koch should resign from office include his making a mess of the city’s finances. 

In particular, his repeatedly failings short to well-short of plan with the sum of his also typically grandiose plans looking likely to end up costing local taxpayers hundred of millions of dollars.  He also variously appears to have violated applicable law along the way as well as looks to have further facilitated city officials to arguably do likewise.

Clear and often expensive problems notwithstanding, Mayor Koch pressed for the approval of an 89% raise based on dubious claims of doing a great job as mayor and which has only enhanced well-warranted criticism of him.

Accordingly, the Quarry is herein further calling for outside and independent reviews of the mayor’s actions as well as various of the City of Quincy’s operations with chips so allowed to fall where they may as regards any problems that might so be uncovered. 

After all, when one is handling other people’s money, propriety with the handling as well as use of it is only to be expected as well as especially when the other people’s money is taxpayers’ money.

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