This announcement was released today by Dr. Ada M. Fisher, NC Republican National Committeewoman and candidate for NC House, District 77.

St. Paul, MN – The day after the Republican National Convention, in one of many historic moves for the Republican Party, Dr. Ada M. Fisher, NC House District 77 Republican Candidate officially became her state’s Republican National Committee Woman.  That committee of over 150 representatives comprises the state’s party chairman (Linda Daves from NC),  National Committeeman (Representative David Lewis from NC) and National Committeewoman (Dr. Ada M. Fisher).  That body has some say in the functioning of the Republican Party on the national level.  It has a voice in the party platform, convention planning and efforts to elect candidates as well as fund raising efforts for races.

Preceding the convening of the first 2008-2012 Republican National Committee meeting, several historic occurrences unfolded in its wake.  The beginning of the 2008 convention was modified in view of the pending hurricane Gustav where many candidates were sent home to make sure their families were protected while the Republican Party helped raise millions of dollars to assist hurricane victims.  Retooling on September 3rd featuring a presentation by Mrs. Cindy McCain, a salute to women, first responders and those involved in our home place security was begun.  Introducing a hurricane of its own, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska rocked the house and energized the party in her acceptance of that honor becoming the first female Republican Vice Presidential nominee.  Concluding the official events of the convention, John S. McCain in a thoughtful rousing speech highlighting his status as a true American hero, through the chants of USA appealed to the best of us across all party and ethnic lines as he implored us all to put Country First.

Likewise a historic moment for Dr. Fisher, whose grandfather rose from slavery to be instrumental in laying the groundwork for the nomination of the first black man to serve the Republican National Convention in the early 1900’s, Dr. Fisher became the first known black woman from the United States to serve as a Republican National Committee Woman.  Lost in the democratic focus of Obama as the first African American candidate to receive the democratic nomination has been the efforts of black Americans in the Republican Party with North Carolina showing unheralded successes with African Americans as a County District Chairman-Joseph Avery, County Chairman-Dr. Timothy Johnson from Ashville, and six candidates running for the NC Legislature representing Burlington, Charlotte, Gastonia, Greensboro, Fayetteville and Salisbury.