Randall Broz

Randall Broz owns Washington's longest list of House Democratic fundraising clients. He doesn't advertise. He mostly stays out of newspapers. He doesn't use Twitter, and has only a skeletal website. Angerholzer Broz and a predecessor firm have been paid more than $8 million, including expenses, by the campaigns and political action committees of House Democratic incumbents and challengers since the start of the 2004 election cycle. A Pennsylvania native, Broz got a taste of politics at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was a member of the college Senate. Broz worked as a finance director on a state and congressional campaign and as an independent fundraising consultant before he and a friend started Political Development Group in 2003. Broz, 37, co-owns an investment property with James Clyburn's longtime chief of staff, Yelberton Watkins. Clyburn's political action committee treasurer and brother, John Clyburn, at times works out of the Angerholzer Broz offices. Since 2003, when Broz founded Political Development Group, the firm he merged into Angerholzer Broz, he has had about 50 clients in Congress, according to federal records. That includes about 20 members of the black caucus. Angerholzer Broz is now branching into gubernatorial races, raising money for Democratic candidates in Maine and the U.S. Virgin Islands.