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Barely more than a week after the installation of the new slate of city councillors were sworn into office, one of the mayor’s former super majority of obsequious vassals on the council has been appointed to a senior position in the Koch Maladministration which comes with a six-figure salary. 

The position?  Director of Emergency Management.  The department has but two employees — the director and an operations manager.

The position opened up when the former director was fired over charges of domestic violence,

So what — apparently — for the fact that the charges are still working their way through the courts and thus leaving the city open to potential litigation over wrongful termination should the charges end up dropped.

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In any event, this hack hire is not without precedent. 

For example, the former Ward One ward heeling predecessor was hired to a mid-level city job after she lost her job as the Chief of Staph for a now former mayor of Braintree when he also lost his reelection bid.

In any event, the new acting director is looking at a near four-fold pay pop late in his career at the public trough as well as that it would appear per the city budget that the job come with a city ride.

The four-fold raise would also appear to set a new record locally on a percentage basis as regards his potential pension pop if the new acting director can last three years on a gig which one of the mayor’s aunt’s once held and was paid roughly half as much.

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The potential maximum pension pop will also set a new record on a dollar basis.

Granted, this latest mayoral hire has plausible merit; at the same time, it is only fair to note that the hire of one of mayor’s former vassals on the council was made without appearing to have entailed a formal search.

And as for who next among the mayor’s former vassals on the city council might be hack hired into a no now heavy lifting sinecure, the touts at the Quarry are anticipating that the former council president is surely on a short list of one to head Quincy Fiber if and when it might actually be launched

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That and so what for the fact that Braintree relatively recently sold its municipal broadband cable service as its operations were not cutting it, not to mention that the City of Quincy’s finances are shaky at best these days.

After all, what is the Koch Administration if not a half-way house for busted out political officeholders and even their former staff at times.

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