Staffers Join Money Chase

Fundraisers Tout Opportunity to Schmooze Aides

• By Tory Newmyer
• Roll Call Staff
• July 14, 2008, Midnight

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), her top staffer, a dozen Democratic challengers and scores of lobbyists gather later this month on the roof of the Jones Day Building at the foot of Capitol Hill, it will mark the second time in as many months that lobbyists have opened their wallets at the request of a senior Democratic staffer.