25 Facts About Ada Fisher

Ada M Fisher was an American physician from Salisbury, North Carolina, and a frequent Republican candidate for office.

Ada Fisher challenged incumbent Mel Watt in North Carolina's 12th Congressional district in 2004 and 2006.

Rev Ada Fisher was a Republican, as was her grandfather, who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation when he was ten years old.

Ada Fisher attended Durham public schools, graduating from Hillside High School with honors.

Ada Fisher then graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in biology.

Ada Fisher went on to earn her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master's in public health from Johns Hopkins University.

Ada Fisher later ran a rural North Carolina health clinic and a 16-county substance abuse program.

At the 2008 North Carolina Republican Party state convention, held at the Joseph Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, Ada Fisher was elected as the National Republican Committeewoman for North Carolina.

Jim Forrester, Ada Fisher's win was viewed as a surprise, underdog victory.

Ada Fisher endorsed Katon Dawson for RNC chairman that year.

Ada Fisher ran for the United States Senate in 2002 in the Republican primary against Elizabeth Dole, who went on to win the general election; Ada Fisher placed fourth in a field of seven Republican candidates.

Ada Fisher protested during the campaign that she was not allowed to participate in television forums featuring only two of the Republican candidates, and after the election, she filed a complaint regarding Dole's residency requirement.

Ada Fisher ran against incumbent Congressman Mel Watt of the North Carolina's 12th congressional district in 2004.

Ada Fisher raised $400,000 to oppose Watt in 2006, with most of the money spent on direct mail; she said the national Republican Party had not given her "one dime of support," but local organizations were supportive.

In 2008, Ada Fisher told Talking Points Memo that the fundraising organization she had hired had given her back only $30,000 of the $400,000 she had raised in the cycle, directing the rest to its affiliated private vendors, in what echoed previous complaints listed at TPM.

In 2006, Ada Fisher ran against Watt for the second time.

Ada Fisher claimed that Watt ignored his constituents at the expense of travel related to his chairmanship of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Ada Fisher said that she had put 73,000 miles on her car traveling the six counties of the 12th District for her campaign.

Ada Fisher ran for the North Carolina General Assembly from North Carolina's 77th House district in 2018.

Ada Fisher wrote in The North Carolina Conservative that the Republican Party had a long history of black candidates for office, including the first black senator Hiram Revels and the first black congressman, Joseph Rainey, and four of the first six black senators.

Ada Fisher supported a flat tax, small businesses, gun rights, and expanded education options.

Ada Fisher did not support open borders for reasons of national security, nor did she support illegal immigration to the United States or language accommodations for driver's licenses for those who do not speak English.

Ada Fisher believed money sent to Mexico to compensate Social Security taxes paid by illegal workers should instead be given to states whose social services are strapped from illegal immigration, and the United States should commence oil drilling in Mexico, helping Mexicans find jobs and business profits while helping to solve the United States' energy needs.

Ada Fisher believed national standards for driver's licenses should be invoked, as well as voter identification cards.

Ada Fisher never married but adopted two sons, who are now adults.