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Mary Fisher

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The Resume

    (April 6, 1948- )
    Born in Louisville, Kentucky
    Birth name was Lizabeth Davis Frehling
    AIDS activist and artist
    Twice addressed the Republican National Convention (1992,1996)
    Member of the National Commission on AIDS (1992-93)
    Founded the Mary Fisher CARE Fund

Why she might be annoying:

    She dated Mitt Romney when they were students at the same prep school.
    She checked into the Betty Ford Center to be treated for alcoholism (1984).
    She said about the National Commission on AIDS, 'Its members were well-intended and its organizers were earnest. But our achievements were, in a word, lame.'
    She stopped taking her anti-HIV drugs, complaining of the side effects (1999).

Why she might not be annoying:

    She served on the staff of President Gerald Ford as the first female 'advance man.'
    She suffered several miscarriages between the birth of her first son and the adoption of a second son.
    She contracted AIDS from her second husband.
    Their children tested negative for HIV.
    The New York Times credited her speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, along with Elizabeth Glaser's address to the Democratic National Convention the same year, with having 'brought AIDS home to America.'
    Seven of her sculptures are displayed at the Geneva headquarters of UNAIDS.
    She and her doctors found a combination of drugs that suppressed her HIV without unmanageable side effects (2001), which she has called a turning point in her life: 'For years, it was waiting to die, and then it was turning everything and trying to figure out how to live.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1256 Votes: 67.52% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1188 Votes: 59.09% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 109 Votes: 69.72% Annoying