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This year’s local election season concluded with a resounding rebuke of the long koched-up status quo as well as a record-setting outcome.
Mayor Koch appears to have a problem
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The people have spoken!
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Six candidates running for city council seats and who are variously critical of Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch who was not on the ballot won their races with five of these races blowout wins including wins over a number of incumbents who were viewed by at least some as likely in safe seats.
Only one incumbent Koch tool on a stool city councillor survived the tsunami inflicted by fed-up voters that well-exceeded the expectations of those long fed up with the Koch Machine.
And as for record setting, five of the challengers are female and thus the City Council will be majority female.
(“Dawg — I need an ace of spades.”)
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Needless to say, the mostly boyos club that is the Koch Machine are now likely looking at fury in excess of Hell coming their way over the next two years.as well as for ample cause.
The only condolence for Mayor Koch: only two of three races for three school committees were won by opponents of the status quo and so leaving the mayor with a close 4 to 3 majority.
At the same time, with Mayor Koch on the record as voting unsuccessfully to see Lunar New Year finally made a local school holiday, either Lunar New Year will become a school holiday or Mayor Koch will face even more umbrage if he changes his mind and so withdraws his support.
Walkbacker & a “friend” party while Quincy burns?
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Plus, it would be safe to suggest that during the remaining two years in office Quincy Mayor Koch is pretty much now a de facto dead duck in a barrel lame duck.
Further surely to be amusing will be both Quincy’s peerless mayor and his Chief of Staff Pinocchio Walkbacker endeavoring to whistle past a graveyard soon to be the final political resting place for his de jure lame duck vassals with but weeks left on the city council and then left to try to talk up how everything is just fine within the local body politic.
In the post apocalyptic rubble that was QATV interviews, the “dead man walking” mayor was asked; why Quincy’s election turnout is so low? He answered in his smug condescending tone; “well Joe everyone is happy with the way the city is run’ there’s no need to come out and vote”. Chuckling.
Then it was time for Noel Dibona’s turn to wax poetic and he immediately Apologized for his vote on giving himself a pay raise.(what a rube).
The “ word master “, then proceeded in describing the election as a “ surge of insurgents”.
Clearly he does not have the mental acuity for the job and his “ little man syndrome “ will be on display with his 5 female colleagues putting him in his place.