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Even a blindfolded lady justice can see what the defense is endeavoring to do to trim its losses
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Last Friday the Koch Administration was yet again back in court and also again is so looking at yet another adverse outcome even after reaching out to outside counsel to defend it in this matter in the hope of reversing what appears to be a perfect record of defeat relying on Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch’s consigliere to appeal cases lost in trial court.
The reason for yet another appearance in court?
To seek the formal closing out of a lawsuit initiated by petitioners to see locals able to vote on an 89% raise arguably grifted by the mayor and a now mostly former city council line-up along with endeavoring to see the raise kick in two years earlier than allowed by law.
The petition drive organizers had earlier this year succeeded in seeing many hundreds of petition signers approved after they were first rejected by the City Clerk per what was found by the court to be a mistaken understanding of applicable state law and thus the plaintiffs now seek to see the judge’s ruling in their favor formally entered into the record.
Defense council
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Conversely, the mayor’s local taxpayers-paid outside council was seeking that the court order the City of Quincy City Clerk to commence her final certification of the petition signers on December 1 and so open a 48 hour time window to for other local voters to challenge the validity of petition signers.
That and at least tacitly as well as most curious — if not also fanciful — claim that the mayor and his hired mouthpieces are now claiming to seek to protect the will of petition signers and other registered local voters.
Her honor, however, posed points and questions that indicated that she was likely not going to be honoring by the defense’s requests.
(“they’ve got to be kidding”)
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For an example as to likely why not, her honor noted that the original filings in this dispute posed no request for any such action to be considered and perhaps so ordered by the judge.
In short, don’t ask when appropriate, don’t get later.
Further problematic for defense council’s request is how the City Clerk could have unilaterally subjected petition signers to the 48 hour signature review and rejection process as well as is mandated by law to do so forthwith as opposed to not until even more months later as sought.
Shaking their heads
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In other words, one could argue that the City Clerk had again koched-up at doing her job.
Additionally, her honor noted that given subsequent events including the city council voiding the duly delayed raise until 2028 raise, the dispute was now essentially moot as the plaintiffs have seen the whole of events play out close enough to what they had sought in the first place.
In turn, it is only reasonable to assume that the mayor will seek to continue to drag out matters after already spending millions of local taxpayers’ dimes to the likely tune of upwards of $200,000.00 to date with even more likely to follow versus the but $25,000.00 raised by the plaintiffs to successfully press their case.
Not my money so why not?
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The likely goal of the mayor to so pursue a lost cause?
To see the plaintiffs run out of money and so perhaps be able to then score a manner of a but modest partial technical reversal by default should the plaintiffs so run out of money and thus be unable to continue to press their already winning brief even if they have already prevailed.
So what, however, for how in the court of public opinion that the mayor will likrly look to be continuing to endeavor to feather his nest at their double-dipped expense.
In any event as well as in the meanwhile, her honor has taken matters under advisement and will rule on both parities’ requests in due course.
Needless to say, Quincy Quarry’s legion of loyal readers can count on the Quarry to report on her honor’s rulings.
