"We have an open line, and we aren't condemning them without hearing what they have to say," the staffer told Ars.

"As secure as we can make it," the staffer at the foot of the table told her.

In the early part of the campaign Bradley was winning easily in the polls, so his staffers told him to play it safe.

"You'll have to go through the producer," the wary staffer told them.

The staffers tell jokes now and then, but they're not very funny.

"Your boy is asking for trouble," the staffer told him.

Later, a staffer told me that that meant that I would get a gig there.

They put us in our place," a staffer told me.

Black's staffers told him his appointment calendar was booked till 2009.

As the players were getting their room keys, a staffer told Chris Basak: "You're not going to need this.