Early in my political life, I was so angry about what the Dinkins administration was doing to the city, and my neighborhood in particular, that I would tear the roof off the Community Board meetings on a regular basis.
When I was captured on TV giving everybody an earful, a guy in the Giuliani camp started calling me “firebrand.” I liked the guy and the image, so the name came to me quickly when it was time to choose a freeper name.
Great story!
Thanks for writing!