When Vincent Orange is sworn in as the city’s next at-large councilman, he isn’t going to be happy if he gets the city hall office that has been used by Sekou Biddle.
“I might wind up in there, but it won’t be quietly,” Orange told The Washington Examiner on Wednesday. Orange won a nine-way race to fill the seat on a permanent basis on Tuesday. Biddle has held the seat — and the office space with it — since being sworn in as an interim councilman in January.
On the campaign trail, Orange frequently chided Biddle for Biddle’s office space, calling it a conference room.
The claim wasn’t quite accurate. The office is smaller than that of other council members, and the receptionist does sit at the end of a hallway on the fourth floor of the John A. Wilson building. But Biddle did have a private office split off from the rest of the space.
If Orange isn’t assigned the same space, it’s hard to say where he’ll find an office elsewhere in the building. When Brown became chairman he moved the budget and policy office to the office he occupied as at-large councilman.
