LYNN SWEET / Chicago Sun-Times | June 26, 2008

WASHINGTON —- Reporters are banned from covering the meeting presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) are having Thursday night at the Mayflower Hotel here with Clinton’s best fund-raisers. It is their first joint appearance since Obama clinched the nomination.

This event has everything to do with big money in politics yet the Obama campaign does not see any reason to at least include a pool reporter.