A member of the Republican National Committee from North Carolina, Dr. Ada Fisher, is calling for Michael Steele to resign as chairman of the Republican National Committee, in the wake of the scandal involving the use of party funds at a sex-themed nightclub — though it should be noted that this is not the first time this particular RNCer has called upon Steele to go.
Fisher told David Weigel that she agreed with the call by Tom Fetzer, her state party chairman, for Steele to go: ” Whether others in the RNC will have the courage to push past the bravado to the heart of the issues, which compelled me to do what I did in light of financial accountability and transparency concerns — as well as the perception of many at the grass roots that they aren’t being heard — is something other RNC members will have to decide for themselves.”
Fisher has been a Steele critic for quite a while, and called for his resignation over a year ago in the wake of his apology over dismissive comments made about Rush Limbaugh. During the RNC leadership race in January 2009, Fisher had been a supporter of Steele’s final rival, former South Carolina GOP chairman Katon Dawson.
Fisher was also one of the documented Potemkin candidates of fundraising firm BMW Direct which raised large amounts of money for GOP contenders in solidly-Democratic, heavily African-American districts, then kept almost all of it for themselves. As she said at the time in 2008, once the truth was revealed: “They sort of — what shall I say? — screwed me.” BMW Direct has since changed its name to Base Connect.
