Dr. Ada Fisher on Saturday announced she will not be running for another term as North Carolina Committeewoman for the Republican National Committee.

Her announcement came during the Rowan County Republican Convention, held at the Rowan County Administrative Building.

“(I)f somebody wants this seat please think long and hard,” she said. “It’s a very expensive seat. It costs about $10,000 a year to do all the traveling and participate in various things ….”

Fisher, a retired physician, was elected to serve as North Carolina’s committeewoman in 2008, defeating incumbent Mary Frances Forrester. She was elected to her third term in May 2016.

In this time, Fisher has missed few meetings. She’s been to the White House four times, an experience she called “very interesting.”

Fisher said that the experience of visiting the capitol with Donald Trump as president has been markedly different.

“(W)hen you’re invited to the White House, they’re there to tell you what they want and you don’t necessarily get a chance to let them hear what you want,” she said.

Not so in the case of January’s Republican National Committee meeting in D.C., she said. The group had dinner at the Trump International Hotel and were joined by the man himself.

“They decided to do something different,” said Fisher. “For 15 minutes he talked a little bit about what his accomplishments had been and then for hour and a half hour they opened the floor for questions to the president.”

For now, she said that Republicans should come together and form agendas on several critical issues: healthcare and social security to name a few.

Fisher said she felt the healthcare system had lingering biases left by Obamacare, making treatment of those over 80 a non-priority. Moreover, she said social security is impossible to live on and retired people need more support.

The committeewoman also stressed the importance of the Republican National Committee at large, praising its comprehensive data system used to select and support winning candidates.

Next steps for the party, she said, included broadening its demographics. Some 23.5 percent of North Carolina is black, she said. If current political trends continue, she said a large turnout of this population would hinder Republican candidacies.

“One of the things that we have to figure out is how to get blacks more interested in this party,” she said. “I’ve noticed, we’ve got to get more young people involved in the party and talk about issues that attract young people, because if we don’t have a future, what’s it all for?”