However, the potential for embarrassment is much greater, especially given a judicial finding upholding Internal Revenue Service penalties against Pace on accuracy-related issues and the fact he represented himself and his wife, who is a co-party.
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Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat representatives are standing alongside UKIP, the Green Party, BNP, Labour and Co-operative Party, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) and Socialist People's Party, as well as a number of independents.
But it is clear that she can contemplate inter-party co-operation only on her terms.
Mr Barak's party co-ordinated and often instigated such activities but did not report them as contributions.
In 1990, facing electoral annihilation, the party co-opted him to serve as prime minister for eight weeks.
Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi denied the Conservatives had deliberately fought a lacklustre campaign to benefit their coalition partners.
The commission is to fine the BNP, the Co-operative Party and Scottish Lib Dems for filing their accounts late.
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But Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi said the previous Labour government's Future Jobs Fund had "squandered millions" on short-term placements.
MP, who sits jointly for Labour and the Co-operative Party, is energetic and well-respected, and argued against holding the election in May.
Among notable promotions, Maria Miller and Theresa Villiers join the cabinet as Culture Secretary and Northern Ireland Secretary and Housing Minister Grant Shapps becomes Tory Party co-chairman.
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Others on the council include six Labour members, six from UKIP, four from Mebyon Kernow, two Labour and Co-operative Party members, two councillors declared as "unspecified", and one Green.
Others, including Pirate Party co-chairman Gregory Engels, seem to prefer the idea of a low-Earth-orbit satellite that would be harder to launch but easier to keep airborne than a slowly-deflating balloon.
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Alex Salmond in overall command, his deputy as the day-to-day minister and Kevin Pringle starting work next week back at the SNP, co-ordinating party effort on the referendum after demitting his government post.
He defended the decision not to refer Mr Hunt, but to refer Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi, saying the Leveson Inquiry into media standards was already looking into issues of Mr Hunt's conduct.
Led by Kettering MP Sam Perry, father of Wimbledon star Fred - once an enthusiastic Co-op political activist - the Co-operative Party proved too small on its own to reverse the divvy tax.
Labour MSP Ken Macintosh, Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, SNP MSP Gil Patterson and Green MSP and party co-convener Patrick Harvie all paid warm tributes to the retiring ministers and wittily welcomed the new appointments.
This in turn will make it harder for any Flemish party to co-operate comfortably with any Walloons.
But I think the Tea Party got co-opted along the way by career politicians who saw a feeling in the country they could exploit.
On December 15th David Cameron, the Conservative leader, invited them to co-operate with his party on decentralisation.
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Now he has called on his party to stop co-operating with Herri Batasuna in local councils, where the extremists have strongest roots.
He upholds the right of genuine non-profit organisations to engage in political activities, and does not regard these as campaign contributions unless they are directly co-ordinated with a party's campaign.
But: this living room conversation, earlier in the month, was between two clashing political titans: the co-founder of MoveOn.org, Joan Blades, and the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, the largest and most authentic of the Tea Party groups, Mark Meckler.
She co-founded the Liberal Egyptian Party (2006-2008) and served as a member of its political committee.
Mr Lawlor resigned from Fianna Fail last year, after failing to co-operate with an internal party inquiry into alleged planning corruption.
Scottish Labour MSP James Kelly, who is also a co-convener of the cross party group on fairtrade, said the debate was an excellent way to start the fairtrade fortnight.
Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, an umbrella organization for some 3, 000 local groups, called for a congressional investigation and said that those responsible should either be terminated or resign.
"New Zealand has the oldest, dirtiest and least efficient car fleet in the whole of the developed world, " said Jeannette Fitzsimons, co-leader of the Green Party, which is a member of the coalition government.
In proposing to form a minority government (in coalition with the Greens), Ms Ypsilanti was breaking an SPD campaign promise that it would not co-operate with the Left Party, the successor to East Germany's communists.
The Labour Party is divided on co-ops.
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