[Note the last paragraph, she's horsetrading for immigration reform and H-1Bs]

Pelosi Plugs Into Silicon Valley Confidants for Policy Feedback, Donations
By Patrick O’Connor and James Rowley - Jul 29, 2010 12:12 PM MDT

In two weeks, Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul, will host a two-day retreat at a Mediterranean- style inn in Napa Valley, just down the street from the legendary French Laundry restaurant. The guests, as in years past, will include some of her biggest benefactors and some of the most prominent names in corporate California; often they are one and the same.

The financier Bill Hambrecht, who helped Apple Inc. and Google Inc. go public, usually attends the annual conference, as do Charles Geschke, the co-founder of San Jose-based Adobe Systems Inc., and George Marcus, the chairman of the Palo Alto- based commercial real-estate developer Essex Property Trust Inc. The retreat is part thank-you, part intellectual gabfest. Last year’s theme was the economy; guests were briefed by White House adviser David Axelrod.

Foes have long called Pelosi “bad for business,â€