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Frances Rice
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BIOGRAPHY
Lieutenant Colonel Frances Rice is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and retired from the Army in 1984 after 20 years of active service. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Drury College in 1973, a Masters of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 1976, and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1977.
While on active duty, Frances served in a variety of positions, including commander of a WAC company, adjutant of a basic combat training brigade, a prosecuting attorney, and chief of the administrative law division. She also served as a special assistant to the Army Judge Advocate General and an adviser to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity.
Subsequent to her military career, Frances Rice worked for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, serving first as a member of that company’s "think tank," and then as a government contract advisor. She later taught Business Law for the European Division of the University of Maryland in Brussels, Belgium.
Frances became politically active in 1982 and served as a member of President Ronald Reagan's Private Sector Initiatives Task Force. She worked as a volunteer in the campaigns of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush, as well as Governor Jeb Bush and Governor Charlie Crist.
Frances is active in the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Sarasota County, serving as a committeewoman for precinct 96. In 2005, she became a co-founder and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association, an organization that is committed to returning African Americans to their Republican Party roots. Recently she was honored as the Volunteer of the Year by the Republican Party of Sarasota County.
Among the awards she received during her military career is the Legion of Merit, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a non-combatant. In 1987, she was accorded the distinction of being one of America’s top 100 Black Business and Professional Women by the editorial board of Dollars and Sense magazine.
Diary Entries
IN COMMEMORATION OF JUNETEENTH – THE CELEBRATION OF BLACK FREEDOM
By Frances Rice | 06/18/09
As we celebrate Juneteenth, also know as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, it is fitting that we pause to recognize the origin of this important part of our African American heritage. June 19th marks the day in 1865 when word reached blacks in Texas that slavery in the United States had been abolished. More than two years earlier, on January 1, 1863, Republican President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation... read more »
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Obama To Poor Blacks – Stay Poor
By Frances Rice | 06/04/09
To his eternal shame, in order to acquire and maintain power, President Barack Obama has adopted the Democratic Party’s strategy of keeping blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Using the politics of poverty and race-baiting, Obama garnered nearly 96 percent of the black vote that helped propel him to the pinnacle of power. That power is now being used by Obama to accomplish his liberal agenda which includes wrecking... read more »
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SONIA SOTOMAYOR, A JUDGE TOO FAR!
By Frances Rice | 05/28/09
Using personal attacks, Democrats malign black Republican judges, such as Judge Janice Rogers Brown and Justice Clarence Thomas. During the Bush Administration, Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy called black Republican judicial nominees "Neanderthals”. Democrat Senator Harry Reid slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as someone who could not write good English. “Slap at Thomas stinks of racism,” was ... read more »
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Rookie President Barack Obama
By Frances Rice | 04/09/09
With the hubris of a Banana Republic Dictator, President Barack Obama is steadily concentrating more power for himself, taking away our constitutional freedoms, bit by bit, while burdening our nation with a $1.2 trillion debt every year for the next ten years – a debt that will break the economic backs of our children and grandchildren. Obama's outrageous power grab is wide-ranging -- from taxing charitable donations that will... read more »
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OBAMA LIED, THE ECONOMY DIED
By Frances Rice | 03/31/09
Like the wily Wizard of Oz, President Barack Obama hides his socialist agenda behind a rhetorical curtain, telling Americans one thing, while doing another. The silver-tongued Obama promised transparency and prosperity. But once in office, Obama appointed tax cheats and lobbyists to his cabinet, while using fear mongering as a cover for his massive social spending and wealth-destroying taxes that will collapse our economy and... read more »
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RUSH LIMBAUGH - A WARRIOR IN THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA
By Frances Rice | 03/07/09
As an American citizen, Rush Limbaugh is exercising his freedom of speech and is a warrior in our battle for the soul of America.Rush Limbaugh is masterfully performing the duty of a great communicator, which is to instruct and entertain. Sometimes the truth is ugly. The ugly truth is President Barack Obama is spending America into oblivion - just as President Ronald Reagan caused the Soviet Union to spend itself into... read more »
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