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Suffering a haircut to his plans
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Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch’s attempt to score himself a fat raise on his current salary has given rise to massive as well as unrelenting pushback by locals, including their opting to pursue litigation over the City Clerk’s curious rejection of many hundreds of signatures calling for a ballot question challenging the outsized size of the raise he initially all but unilaterally scored, if not also grifted himself.
The pushback grew even greater when Mayor Koch posed shortly before the recent elections an attempt to walkback the raise to a lesser figure which he thought he could finesse has instead raised even more stink given his latest violation of “The First Rule of Holes” by trying to finesse scoring his so-called “compromise” proposal that was on the order of 50% greater than what rank and file city employees have received over the same time frame.
An fed-up taxpayer
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Particularly galling was how the mayor then proposed to submit his revised raise proposal after all but one of his obsequious vassals on the City Council were not reelected.
His apparent goal with this sleight of hand?
See the lame ducks approve his revised raise proposal before the incoming new super majority of Rebel Alliance council members are swore into office on fast approaching New Year’s Day and might be of a different mind about his proposal.
So outraged where locals that someone poked around and found that per Massachusetts General Law such a lame duck ducking of taxpayers is proscribed.
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Specifically, Chapter 43, Section 17A, states that “(n)o increase or reduction in the salaries of mayor or city councillors shall take effect during the year in which such increase or reduction is voted, and no change in such salaries shall be made between the election of a new council and the qualification of the new council.”
In turn, an independent first term city councillor broached this statute to the Koch Maladministration and it had no choice but to halt its plans to press the lame ducks to gift the mayor with a significantly greater raise than what many thousands of local taxpayers and voters are on record as approving.
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Needless to say, it will surely prove interesting to see if and how the mayor may next proceed with his latest scheme to score himself an outsized raise once the new super majority of opponents to his doings and misdoing things are swore into office as city councillors come the start of 2026.
Surely wicked amusing to watch.
