The Politico has a story this morning on D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s ties to real estate developers. A long list of powerful developers have recently made contributions to her re-election campaign, many of whom have projects underway that have benefited from Norton’s political support.

The list of Norton’s donors reads like a “Who’s Who” of well-connected real estate developers: the Ratner family, which controls Forest City; Victor MacFarlane, a San Francisco developer who owns D.C. United and has sought to build a new soccer stadium on federal land across the Anacostia River from the Washington Nationals’ new ballpark; John E. “Chip” Akridge, who wants to build a different, 2.7-million-square-foot project near the baseball stadium; Ted and Mark Lerner, owners of the Washington Nationals and major developers in their own right; Christopher Smith, chairman and CEO of William C. Smith Co., a large commercial and residential management company in the District; Benjamin R. Jacobs, managing member of The JBG Companies, a player in the D.C. real estate market for decades; and William Chang, CEO of Westlake Development, co-owner of the San Francisco Giants and a business partner of MacFarlane.

Norton is currently chairwoman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. Notably, she’s also played a big role in luring many of these same developers to the areas around the Navy Yard. The story notes that 46 percent of the over $200,000 Norton raised as of March 31 came from real estate interests, an amount far beyond what Norton received from the industry previously. In the minds of big time developers, the business of the District’s nonvoting representative this election cycle appears to be real estate.