Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Tony Bui

41. Tony Bui

A V.P. with the California Apartment Association, Tony Bui has rapidly earned a reputation as a lobbyist to be reckoned with both for his ability to build key relationships and as the point person in all the group’s independent expenditures. And make no mistake, the CAA is writing some big checks these days.  He is one of a group of similarly young, fast-rising, business-oriented phenoms around the Capitol who are flexing their political and fiscal muscle in ways that have a true impact on both ballot measures and candidate campaigns. Bui is managing the spending on the former, and has already been a factor in getting more business-friendly Dems into the fall runoff races. You want juice? You got it.