TP - Family politics

[rich]

Fwiw, Nassau County is still weighted towards Republicans today as is
Suffolk County where I grew up (even if people dont vote Republican they
essentially support the Fox News worldview)
I once was a beneficiary of party politics on LI when getting hired for a
position at OTB, all openings divvied up between the two parties
apparently. attend one meeting, shake hands with the grand pooba and bob's
yr uncle. you need never show up to another meeting. and there's little ole
stoner/burn out me getting fingerprinted and such at the Suffolk County PD.
Though job has its perks--I got to handle more than $10K in cash with a
police escort to drop off the branch winnings once a week.

rich

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great find....congrats.
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:22 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >     It has been speculated (sorry, I can't remember where right now)
> > that the line in CL49 about Oedipa being "young republican" might be
> > autobiographical to some extent. I've also heard it speculated that
> > Pynchon's father 'almost certainly' was republican since the GOP
> > controlled Nassau Co back then. ("The Suburb Reader" by Becky
> > Nicolaides and ANdrew Weise offers some insight; also "Machine
> > Politics Suburban Style", more specifically about Nassau County.) But
> > I had never come across anything firm, until today.
> >
> >    Poking around I came across some hits and one of them linked Nixon
> > papers in which Thomas R. Pynchon senior appears. Seems that in 1960
> > Tricky D had to pass through Nassau where on Sept 28th he met sith
> > some local GOP rank and file and TRP sr is listed as "Republican
> > Leader Town of Oyster Bay".
> >
> >    Of course thanks to all the hard working Pynchon scholars we know
> > that TP jr was well out of the house and on his way from NY to the
> > west coast at about this time - getting hip to jazz, opera, and so
> > much more.
> >
> > ciao
> > mc otis
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