Is Brooklyn Democrat Congressman Hakeen Jeffries a Closet Birther ?

An obviously purposeful  remark, expressing an item of keen personal interest in a local newspaper, suggests that a newly minted Democrat  Congressman from a district in the middle of Brooklyn has some questions that he wants President Obama to answer about his connections to spots near that Congressman's own stomping grounds.

In an article where Congressman Jeffries indicated that  if push came to shove, he would‘get Brooklyn’ onto Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan;  Jeffries said that there was something that he wanted to take up with President Obama all by himself, a report that Barack Obama had lived for some time in Park Slope, Brooklyn (see "Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: If push comes to shove, I will ‘get Brooklyn’ on Rep. Paul Ryan," by Eli Rosenberg, Courier Life - Brooklyn Daily, 1/21/13 [http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2013/4/all_hakeemandryan_2013_01_25_bk.html ]).

Among othe things, the Courrier Life article  reported that Jeffries said he is  he is looking forward to his first encounter with the world’s most powerful former Brooklynite, President Obama, who in 2012 was first reported to have been an ex-Park Sloper with an actual address in the Slope.  Congressman Jeffries was specifically quoted by Courier Life's Eli Rosenberg as saying, “The first chance I get to visit the White House, I will raise the question of President Obama’s Park Slope residency.” 

Given that so few Republicans in congress are willing to take on items of President Obama's questionable personal history, it is quite surprising to see an African-American Congressman from a largely minority district in Brooklyn doing so.