The recent death of Dave From Queens, David Weintraub, Esq., at 37, a man whose passion led him to trail Joe Lieberman in a Bush face mask, confront Sean Hannity by calling in repeatedly and accosting him during a book tour, and engage in conflict here, leads me to note what some probably consider obvious: trees grow in Brooklyn, but passion grows in Queens.
As one who spent the first three years of his life in Queens, I have paid attention to those who are from Queens: Republicans such as David Horowitz, both Governor John Sununu and his son, Senator John Sununu, and Justice John Scalia; Democrats such as Mario and Andrew Cuomo, and Geraldine Ferraro.
There are no shortage of ordinary political figures from Queens also--my good friend Cliff Wilson, the Democratic County Chair in Delaware County, Pennsylvania who backed Obama in the primary, for instance, was a Queens state legislator as a young man--but the passionate intensity of the most prominent is striking.