For those who knew him, this is very sad news. Damon was bright and inquisitive, with a good sense of humor, and a great journalist. Here is the Roll Call story:
- Damon Chappie, a longtime Roll Call staffer and one of the top investigative reporters in Washington, D.C., died early Friday from complications of heart disease at age 40.
Chappie joined Roll Call in 1995 and quickly established himself as an expert in the Byzantine worlds of Congressional ethics rules and campaign finance. Over the next decade, he was ringside for a period of remarkable change and controversy on Capitol Hill, and Chappie