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Last night last November’s winning candidates for City Council seats were sworn into office.
Perhaps also comparably important, the mayor remained in office as well as stayed alive through the swearings in ceremony.
In all due candor, the mayor’s survival headed off the outgoing president of the city council as well as its worst putz from succeeding the mayor for the remaining two years of his current four year term.
Even so, it was still arguably touch and given the fact that the mayor is now facing a supermajority of opposition on the city council, if not also all but no support whatsoever on the council after years of his having the council populated with compliant vassals.
Massachusetts State Auditor DIana DiZoglio
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Further rough on the mayor, Massachusetts State Auditor DIana DiZoglio was the keynote speaker and she delivered the goods as she pressed home key points on the importance of transparency and accountability for those in public office.
Even from the cheap seats, the Quincy Quarry News staffer covering the event could hear the twisting of the auditor’s shiv.
Further surely adding to the mayor’s, there were multiple standing ovations during the ceremony.
In fact, a number of them.
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In particular, one of the longest and loudest standing ovations was for surely the first foreign-born Asian female city councilor and who surely out door-knocked the next most active retail campaigning candidate if not at least the next couple or so candidates.
In point of fact, only the new city council president received a longer ovation in the wake of her remarks.
Conversely on a petty note, the mayor went cheap on the programs for the new councillors’ inauguration as well as did not honor the new councilors only ask that the programs include thanks to all Quincy voters for voting.
Then again, such was surely but an oversight even if going cheap on the printing probably was not.
What a great night for Quincy’s long suffering taxpayers. Good luck with auditing and squeezing the truth out of Koch’s appointees and sycophants. It’ll be interesting to hear from the likes of Hines, Walker, Big Al, Murphy (both of them), the Ozempic twins, Timmins (especially him), “Fig” Newton, Meatball, and last but not least Chief Kennedy and whoever is now Quincy’s Fire Chief. Also be sure to check ALL of the HR records!
I think we can expect mostly 7 to 2 votes or possibly 6–3 if they try and muscle Richard, Dopey, and “Sleepy” Hubley will mostly be neutered by the Fab 5.
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My read is more like 8 to 0 votes. Richard now has cover, Boner is already trying to change his spots as he continues to believe he will be the next mayor of Quincy, and Sleepy will be nodding off.
DeGloria said media coverage depicting the controversy over the statues as a church and state issue are biased. “There’s a framing that there’s a Catholic mayor trying to push his religion on people, but that’s not what’s happening,” she said. “They are the iconic symbols for a thousand years for police and fire. They are not patron saints. They transcend that.”
Though DeGloria now resides in Weymouth, she said she lived in Quincy for 40 years. Longtime viewers of Quincy Access Television may know her as the Tarot card reader who once read callers’ fortunes on the air using the name Lea Marie.
Florian is a patron saint of Upper Austria, Poland, firefighters, chimneysweeps, soap boilers, and brewers.
Michael the Archangel is the patron saint of bankers and grocers. Additionally, because of his role in leading the angels to expel Satan from heaven, Saint Michael is also the patron saint of police officers and military personnel.
Among the protesters was Christine Koch, Mayor Thomas Koch’s wife, who said she was there to support her husband and the city’s police and firefighters.
“To have 13 people feel that they can speak for everyone else, that’s not the way it goes,” Christine Koch said, referring to Quincy residents suing the city on constitutional claims.
“I’m sure there are other people that aren’t happy about (the statues),” Koch continued. “I understand that. But there are people that are. I think it’s important to let other voices be heard.”
Well, I think it is better to have 13 people speaking for everyone than have 1 person doing that.
I agree that it’s important to let other voices be heard.