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Colonial era debauchery on Merrymount
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Local elections earlier this month had to make at least John Quincy Adams proud to be a Braintree-born native son during what is actually the four hundred and first anniversary of fun-loving English settlers settling in what initially named Wollaston after key founding father, ship captain, and pirate Captain Richard Wollaston — a name which was then was quickly replaced with Merrymonut by Wollaston co-founder Thomas Morton and roughly where roughly is today is the Merrymount neighborhood within what has since 1792 been known as Quincy Massachusetts.
Enough already …
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How so?
The people have spoken and they so voted out all but one of the city council member vassals of Quincy’s arguably both theocratically-leaning and greedy tyrant of a mayor who further looks to mistakenly believe that he owns the job of mayor of Quincy for life.
Then again, a case can be readily made that he likely does need to stay in office for life so as to be able to endeavor to cover his saggy six from an all but certain painful forensic examinations of the City of Quincy’s books.
“They want to do what to me?!?!?”
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Needless to say, it will be interesting to watch him likely twist in the wind over the remaining two years of his increasingly looking likely to be last term in office.
Reasons include that the ladies remember and so helped to see five female candidates set not only an all but formally confirmed record number of females elected to seats on the City of Quincy City Council as well as also concurrently give rise to a majority coalition and so perhaps see at least some of far too long crowing boyos of City Hall caponized or at least see their free-spending wings clipped.
Is a happy Lunar New Year finally coming to the Q?
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Further surely heartening to the Adamses is that more recent arrivals to Quincy saw significant gains in local elective offices what with the number of Asians on the City Council and School Committee doubled care of the recent elections in Quincy.
Simply put, a long sleeping tiger looks to have finally awakened.
I am sure the Adams Family never envisioned their hometown to become a city where city jobs require a contribution to land a job and then perhaps then a promotion and where department heads hail the Chancellor (aka mayor) the way these bum kissers do. I cringed watching them all of them clapping like seals as the mayor told citizens how lucky they were that Quincy was to be $1.6 billion in the hole while city councillors nodded their heads like bobble head dolls as he spoke.
When will the incoming near new council call for the Attorney General and State Auditor to come find out why the bids are for all these statues that one sculptor keeps scoring the winning contract?
In the meanwhile, Imagine a group of idiots who would clap as Koch tells them being 1.6 Billion in the hole, a downgraded bond rating, and the police station millions over plan only for him to then decide to put two statues of Roman Catholic Saints outside the police station to the tune of a million dollars while at the same time telling us that he deserves an 89 percent raise for all of this?
Look at the “General’s Bridge” that hastens on along to the drive thru of the Burger King. If you want to talk about money thrown down the drain, it is the Bridge to Nowhere. The Newport Avenue repaving project has residents getting a feel for driving in the Gaza Strip weaving in and out of manhole covers.
Who is the Patron Saint of Flat Tires?
Who is the Saint of Take-home City Vehicles? This saint looks to be protecting a lot of City Employees who are enjoying free transportation and gasoline courtesy of the taxpayers all while our Excise Tax rates will go up on our cars.
The Council should immediately look at changing the city charter from our type of government to a city manager headed position and make the mayor a ceremonial job.
Stop the nepotism and end campaign donations flying as nod/nod wink/wink to builders to score profitable variances from zoning codes.
Stop the political machine in this City. If the Koch Administration truly wants to bring the Gospel into politics, I would suggest they start with Jesus’ teachings on political corruption and the political elite: Woes to the Pharisees (Matthew 23:1–36): Jesus called out religious-political elites to be “whitewashed tombs”—beautiful outside, corrupt within. They “devour widows’ houses” (meaning today exploit the poor through legal manipulation) as well as “neglect justice, mercy, and faithfulness.”
Political power used for personal gain or image is spiritually bankrupt and a den of Thieves (Matthew 21:12–13): Jesus overturns tables in the Temple, quoting Jeremiah: “My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers.”
Maybe we can carve some of these sayings in stone outside of the den of thieves that is City Hall.
You do not have to give the Mayor of Quincy a contribution in order to get hired into a job or receive a promotion. You are much better off being a relative of our Mayor to obtain a well-paying job for life.