The Judicial Inquiry Commission has considered your request for an opinion concerning
the following question:

“May a Circuit Judge serve as an Area Coordinator for the State Democratic
Committee Dinner and as such Coordinator, organize the sale of $25 per plate
tickets, arrange for the place of the dinner, including all necessary details,
appear on the speaker’s platform with the Democratic officeholders within and
without the State and introduce the occasion’s principal speaker, who will be a
visiting Democratic United States Senator?”