 Christie was also a top fundraiser for Bush's 2000 presidential campaign.He helped raise $350,000 for Bush, qualifying him as a "Pioneer", and also donated to DiFrancesco.Democrats seized upon the role played by Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, after Christie's law partner, William Palatucci, a Republican political consultant and Bush supporter, boasted that he had selected a United States attorney by forwarding Christie's résumé to Rove.