36. Robert Zimmerman

This guy is connected. As a partner and founder of Zimmerman/Edelson Inc., he has walked in high Democratic circles, even being appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Presidential Commission. With the Dems back in power in Albany and the U.S. House of Representatives, this nationally known committeeman is poised for another quantum leap into the Power Zone. Don’t say we didn’t call it when he is standing about 3 feet away from the next president.