She is the Conservative Party's co-chairman and minister without portfolio (party fundraiser and close friend of David Cameron, Andrew Feldman, is the other co-chairman but he will not be attending cabinet).

In April 2001, according to a front-page story in The Washington Post, Rather spoke at a Democratic party fundraiser in Austin, Texas, where he was the featured speaker.

He was also a prominent Republican party fundraiser and was actively involved in politics, serving as chairman of the 2004 Bush-Cheney election campaign in Northwest Ohio and a former chairman of the Lucas County Republican party, also in Ohio.

In 2004 he had a donation controversially rejected by the then party fundraiser and Middle East envoy Lord Levy.

Paradis is also facing allegations of providing favorable treatment to construction contractors seeking Federal Government business during a Conservative party fundraiser in the Montreal-area riding of Bourassa in January 2009.

The poll is primarily a party fundraiser.

Most notably, Wong was staffed on political campaigns at the local, regional, state and federal government levels, including the Congressional run of Representative Richard Gephardt, California Governor Jerry Brown, and party fundraiser and delegate liaison for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush.

What distinguished this event from the standard party fundraiser wasn't just Mr. Nader's radical agenda.