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Quincy Quarry News is back after taking a couple weeks hiatus to recharge itself after over eleven years of continuous publication and mostly so exposing the often curious doings and arguable misdoings committed inside of Quincy’s two city halls.

And what better topic than to bust the Koch Maladministration in the stones than over its celebration of St Patrick’s Day?

Per the latest Koch Committee campaign fund report filed with the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, the committee spent $743.62 at a local well-known for its steak tips Irish publick house in Quincy Point on the Saturday after St. Patrick’s Day where the mayor has previously hosted what are widely assumed to be St. Patrick’s Day gatherings in the wake of the end of the local good old boyos’ St. Patrick’s Day at a local fraternal club following a said to be drunken sucker punching incident.

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Per a quick look, the $743.62 spent this year looks to set a new record for spending by the mayor’s campaign fund to likely hoist a few in honor of St Patrick after the sucker punching incident.

At the same time, however, so far the Quarry has not scored any reports of new incidents of improper behavior by any of the mayor’s inner circle.

Not yet anyway.

Even so, the Quarry did see that the mayor’s campaign fund has a new treasurer in the wake of Mayor Koch’s campaign fund’s spanking with a $15,000 fine over its acceptance of improper campaign fund donations, something which hit the fan hard upon last November’s local elections and which saw Mayor Koch’s former super majority of obsequious members of the city council replaced with a new super majority that is instead taking names and insisting on numbers.

Accordingly, Quincy Quarry’s legions of loyal readers can count on Quincy Quarry to continue to follow the money.

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In particular, the Quarry is already well along at sussing out what is looking to be another round of significant local property tax increase come 2027, albeit it with a twist.

The twist? 

While property tax bills are expected to yet again soar in 2027, the funding of local services provided in FY 2027 is conversely expected to likely be flat to slightly reduced given the impact of inflation. 

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