"Fiscal 'reformer' hands taxpayers a big bill" by Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff | December 6, 2008
QUINCY - Last January, Thomas P. Koch won the mayor's office in an upset victory, billing himself as a reformer who would "right the ship" of the city's finances, yet this week he proposed a tax increase that will be one of the largest in city's history.
Wait until you see what it is paying for.
What Koch didn't mention was that taxpayers will also foot another bill for nearly $60,000 in renovations to City Hall offices, including the mayor's suite. The money will pay for such items as a 47-inch flat-screen television monitor and plush wall-to-wall carpeting in the mayor's office, as well as a new City Hall security system.
The mayor's new carpet alone, with its dramatic gold-and-blue garland pattern, cost $19,000. Koch said he paid for half the cost of the new carpet with funds he raised in his campaign for mayor. Taxpayers will pick up the $9,400 difference, as well as the rest of the renovation costs....
These LOOTING SCUM just have NO IDEA where $$$ comes from, huh? They see a PILE of TAXPAYER DOUGH and they think, "That's mine!" This guy should be TARRED, FEATHERED, and DUMPED in the HARBOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many Quincy political observers, homeowners, and business people questioned how Koch could ask residents to make do with less while he spends extravagantly. Bob Haley, founder of the Quincy Taxpayers' Association, a tax watchdog group, said he is considering reviving the group, which has been dormant for years. He called the mayor's office expenses ridiculous and unnecessary, comparing them to Governor Deval Patrick's much-criticized decision to upgrade his official state car to a more expensive Cadillac.
(Blog author not only enraged by this information, but is now so disdainful of that piece s*** liar in the corner office, What a FRAUD this guy turned out to be! Just another CORPORATE PUPPET and LYING LOOTER like all the rest!)
"You can't wave this stuff in people's faces and think they're going to put up with it," he said.
But WE DO, sir!!! We VOTED to KEEP the INCOME TAX because we need to PAY for SERVICES like THIS!!!
Koch, 44, took office last January in an upset victory over the incumbent, William Phelan, a local lawyer. Koch - a high school graduate known widely by his nickname, Wink - had served as the city's parks commissioner, as his father did, and has deep roots in the community. His brother-in-law, John Keenan, serves on the City Council; his brother is a foreman in the Parks Department; and other family members hold municipal jobs, prompting one political observer to call city government the "Koch family business."
Oh, a FAMILY of LYING LOOTERS, how nice! That's MASSACHUSETTS for you!
In fact, while Koch served as parks commissioner, he regularly signed off on overtime pay for his brother Joe, a foreman in the department and the city's tree warden.
Is that how YOU wanted YOUR TAX MONEY spent? And then they CRY POVERTY!!!!!
Councilor at Large Joseph Finn said he did not know about the office spending, which came out of bond money the city borrowed for building repairs, according to Koch.
Oh, so you will have to PAY INTEREST on the whole damn thing, too, taxpayer!!
It just KEEPS GETTING BETTER, doesn't it?
Finn said it has generally been the responsibility of a city auditor to monitor such spending under the purview of the city council. But after the auditor left his post earlier this year, the mayor created the new position of chief financial officer, at a salary of $100,000 a year. The chief financial officer does not report spending to the City Council, but to the mayor directly....
Un-frikkin'-real!
Koch also used more than $40,000 in city funds to pay for carpeting to other rooms in City Hal.... Restaurant owner Julie Loebardt... when she learned of the expenditure.... said she was concerned that the proposed tax increase could cause her rent to skyrocket and put her restaurant out of business....
Hey, if that's what it costs to ensconce the s***-stinking mayor in the lap of luxury!
