Dossier Q&A: Robert McConnell

Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell answers the Proust Questionnaire 

 

What is your favorite virtue?  

Fortitude mixed with justice.

 

What are your favorite qualities in a person?   

Tolerance, with different ideas not necessarily your own.

 

What is your chief strength?  

Stubborn diligence. 

 

What do you appreciate most in your friends?  

Strength of well-reasoned opinions.

 

What is your favorite pastime?   

Being with my wife.

 

What is your idea of happiness?  

Being totally free and with an independence of thought.

 

What is your idea of misery?  

Loss of one’s life partner.

 

If not yourself, who would you like to be?  

The world’s greatest opera singer.

 

If not Vallejo, where would you most like to live?  

San Francisco

 

What is your favorite flower?

Rose

 

What is your favorite color?  

Various shades of purple

 

Who is your favorite prose/nonfiction author? 

Winston Churchill

 

Who is your favorite poet?

Bobby Burns

 

Who is your favorite fiction author? 

Vladimir Nabokov

 

Who is your favorite hero in fiction?

Scrooge McDuck

 

Who is your favorite artist?   

Claude Monet

 

Who is your favorite musician? 

Giacomo Puccini