Ada Fisher
Miles Mark Fisher of Durham, North Carolina, himself the son of a former slave[6] and his Seminole Indian wife.
[5] Before retiring in 2000 due to a leg disability, Fisher served as Chief of Occupational Health Services at the W.G.
[5] 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.
[5] Fisher ran against incumbent Congressman Mel Watt of the North Carolina's 12th congressional district in 2004.
[2] In 2008, 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.
[6] He claimed that Watt ignored his constituents at the expense of travel related to his chairmanship of the Congressional Black Caucus.
[2] Fisher's campaign theme was "Get a Doctor in the House" and she recommended a "prescription" composed of ten platform planks.
His nomination for President was seconded by Dr. Helen G. Edmonds, a black professor at Durham's North Carolina College.
It was President Eisenhower, a Republican who appointed Earl Warren (previous California Republican Governor) as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court who wrote for the unanimous court in 1954 that separate but equal is a myth, and schools and society should become integrated for all Americans.
[6] Fisher continued: "In the rush to find fault while looking for a rightward turn, people forget that it was the Democrats who brought in poll taxes which kept us from voting; were behind the Jim Crow laws which separated us into white and colored; vigorously supported the Ku Klux Klan; and kept us out of their party and from unions and opportunities dictating a say in the course of our lives...
The Great Society of Lyndon Johnson took on segregation but, in so doing to some, possibly undermined the social fabric of an independent people in its push for a safety net, which abolished individual responsibility and accountability for behavior and actions.
[2] Fisher was in favor of tort reform for medical malpractice lawsuits and a free enterprise system of health care: "If you socialize medicine, you will lose the creativity and innovation that brings us new drugs and new treatments.
"[18] Fisher continued, "As a black woman, I will never support any provision to relax borders with Mexico when we keep turning Haitians away and sending them back to situations we know are equally bad if not worst... granddaughter of a free African boy who was made a slave on reaching these shores and granddaughter of his Seminole Indian wife, I am mad that my peoples were stripped of our cultures and languages to improve this nation and now see others advance with minimum standards set for their citizenship as they become our new underclass.
[18] In August 2008, she emailed a link to a YouTube video of rearranged clips of President Barack Obama "indulging the darkest conspiracy theories about himself."
