The Hill reports that Dr. Ada Fisher of North Carolina, one of three black RNC members, is circulating an e-mail among her fellow RNCers calling for Michael Steele to resign as chairman. But Fisher herself deserves a close examination, providing a very interesting look at just what sort of people make up the current GOP machinery and how it all works.
She was one of the documented Potemkin candidates of fundraising firm BMW Direct, which raised large amounts of money for GOP contenders in solidly-Democratic majority-minority districts, then kept almost all of it for themselves. As she said at the time, once the truth was revealed: “They sort of — what shall I say? — screwed me.”
It also has to be noted — which The Hill does — that Fisher was a supporter of Steele’s rival Katon Dawson during the chairmanship campaign, and even after Steele won she’s been vocally criticizing him.
In an ominous sign, Fisher cites the danger of Steele having angered…Rush Limbaugh! “Limbaugh has already promised that ‘His Conservatives’ won’t be giving to the RNC. I would suggest to you that that is a real bet,” Fisher wrote. “If we can’t raise money and continue to allow the alienation of the few varifiable (sic) red states remaining, we are foolish.”
Fisher is also quite disgusted with Steele’s public mannerisms: “I don’t want to hear anymore (sic) language trying to be cool about the bling in the stimulus package or appealing to D.L. Hughley and blacks in a way that isn’t going to win us any votes and makes us frankly appear to many blacks as quite foolish.”
