true, that part about his father just jumped out at me.
also, it will be interesting to the NYT editorial boad which is on record as having "enthusiastically endorsed" him for reelection and credited him with a "phenomenal turnaround" in the city's fortunes all of a sudden make him out to be the devil incarnate.
The N.Y. Slimes has a long history of writing one thing and then another. The paper is going down the tunes and Pinch and the rest of the family are acting like petulant children ( no surprise there ), instead of adults.