logroller (?.)
- Machiavellian
- behind-the-scenes operator
- eminence grise
- finagler
- five-percenter
- fixer
- four-percenter
- gamesman
- gray eminence
- influence peddler
- kingmaker
- machinator
- operator
- pork-barrel politician
- power broker
- strategist
- wheeler-dealer
- wire-puller