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Dining at the public trough
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Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch has proposed to pull the plug on his long-pending 89% raise that was most curiously confabulated as warranted a year and a half ago and has since suffered nothing but public outcry.
In particular, the rancor was especially heated from taxpayers who pay his salary over the way that the mayor grifted without public comment his plans for a raise that would have made him among the five highest paid mayors in the country as the mayor of the but small city that is Quincy and which ranks as but the 325th largest city in the United States.
Friends, Roman Catholics, Kochonuts …
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Needless to say, with local elections next week, Quincy Mayor Koch’s announcement was surely an attempt at an October surprise to attempt to stem metastasizing negative sentiments towards many to most incumbent city councillors as well as perhaps also School Committee members seeking reelection as they are proxies for taking shots at Mayor Koch as he is not on the ballot this election cycle.
Mayor Koch tried to inarticulately couch his proposal as a compromise to put to bed the ongoing controversy, however, as the new number still begat quick as well as valid criticism.
So, basically, he’s blinking. Still facing litigation over his bare-chested, buff & arguably homoerotic statues as well as tens of millions in damages given other suits, and finding $16 million to cover a city employee pension assessment he failed to fund via the budget, however.
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Good luck following the card …
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The mayor’s proposal is further arguably disingenuous.
Reasons include that the proposed $225,000 trimmed raise is 19% higher than what was proposed per a ballot question that was dubiously rejected by the City Clerk and thus now in court, 10% higher than splitting the difference between his current salary and the long under fire pending $285,000 raise, as well as is 1.5% higher than his labeling the raise as 3% per year since his last raise in 2015.
Further galling with Mayor Koch’s posing of a hard to see as other than a faux gesture during election season is how the proposed ballot question raise was set at 2% a year and thus in line with what city employee union members have received in the way with raises since the last mayoral last raise.
That and continues to disregard Section 17A of the city charter which calls for voter approval of raises for the mayor and city councillors.
The mayor’s legal council in court
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Further yet, the major’s proposal entails aspects which his consigliere claimed made the ballot question invalid.
In any event, the revised raise proposal is to be presented to the city council at the first council meeting after the election and thus when at least some members will not care as they had not opted to run for reelection and others may be lame ducks after perhaps losing their reelection bids.
Also problematic, in no way can the mayor’s proposal kochblock the already ongoing litigation tied to the rejection of the ballot question in ways that one could readily argue has entailed voter suppression and thus pose arguable violations of the rejected signers’ civil rights.
Hmmm looks like next week’s plan to see the reelection of Koch’s rubber stampers is starting to unravel. Empty suit DiBona has been exposed and his hope of topping the ticket is no longer likely. Campbell is in big trouble and may be bumped out. Harris has already folded his cards and will now be working on his second government pension. McCarthy continues to tick off constituents throughout the district while Jacob’s keeps winning voters over. Lastly, we have Devine is he looking to move to Milton. At a recent council meeting he asked about Milton’s financial health without a single concern about Quincy’s financial condition.
Howard: Feel free to tell Devine that Milton has a AAA/top of the heap credit rating whereas Quincy is not even close as well as is looking likely to continue to head further south.
Devine & McCarthy sounded like 2 stooges at the last council meeting while kissing the rump of Boss Hogg. Anne is the only 1 who isn’t afraid of Koch.
Go through all the campaign donations & look at the Department Heads, City employees & contractors that have to feed the Koch Machine in order to be in on the grift. If you want to see Koch’s 23 & ME Ancestry just look at the City of Quincy payroll sheets.
The funniest thing at the Council meeting was all the Department heads clapping for Koch. It’s like a North Korea military video when Kim Jong Un appears & the minions lose it in awe. These kiss asses have no shame. But I did learn something-
Being 1.6 Billion in debt is a “Good Thing” and everyone wishes they were like Quincy & could have a downgraded bond rating, higher taxes, and take care of all Tom’s donors with fat incentives on real estate deals or hefty pensions for life.
Ghost, QQ’s reporter at the mayor’s dead dog and already butchered for dog food pony show sat right behind senior suits from the School Department.
Let’s just say that the Stockholm Syndrome is painful to see up close.
Another example of A) the mayor thinking he is the smartest one in the room and B) the mayor thinking the voters are too stupid to see what is going on. Pathetic!
In the upcoming election, my strong suggestion is to vote against every incumbent.
Vote them out!
“I argued openly and through the appropriate legislative process that I believe that this position and similar elected positions around the Commonwealth are very underpaid and should be addressed in way that compares them to City and Town managers across the Commonwealth,” Koch said in the release. “This position needs to attract and retain quality individuals to take on such an important role in our community.”
He’s not seeking this enormous raise for himself. He’s doing it for all the other mayors, town managers, etc. Very unselfish of him. (This reminds me of one of the goalies for the Bruins).
Vote every Koch sucker OUT!