Comments on: Political Fixture Bill Rice Let Go from District Job

By: downtown rez

downtown rez — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:35:17 +0000

Never had much use for him, myself. Perhaps because this city has no deficit of flacks, and the primary sources are generally accessible anyway.

By: CHIC

CHIC — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:28:19 +0000

Bill Rice is everywhere.He always has helpful words for the community activists in the trenches. After the sting wears off, he may be grateful that he no longer has to hold his tongue, and serve the megalomaniac mayor.

By: No Relation to Angry Al

No Relation to Angry Al — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:14:20 +0000

If Rice wasn't a former writer at this rag, they'd say what they think: Rice is a hack. He is everywhere in DC politics, as MdB says, and everybody knows him -- but he accomplishes nothing.

Most memorable achievement: ripping of rice-a-roni theme song for ill-fated council campaign; think "rice is running, blah blah blah. . ."

By: niello8

niello8 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:37:23 +0000

the fenty hammer comes down yet again.

By: Richard Layman

Richard Layman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:05:07 +0000

Wow. Not that Bill ever did anything that didn't toe the party line of whoever is in office, but it does remind me of the Giuliani Administration's similar reduction of the span of control of media efforts by individual NYC govt. agencies, even to the tune of getting rid of the Police Commissioner, William Bratton, because he was a media source, spokesman, and celebrity in his own right.

By: Mike Licht

Mike Licht — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:54:25 +0000

Crap. No wonder he didn't answer my email.

No one else at OPM will tell me why the North Hall of Eastern Market, a vast room with a 30 foot ceiling, has electric baseboard heating. Someone at OPM must own lots of stock in PEPCO.