Citations:velcroid

Noun: "one who stays physically near to an influential person, especially in an effort to increase their own media exposure"

 * 1990 — Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era, Ivy Books (1991), ISBN 9780804107600, page 334:
 * A velcroid is a guy on the airport reception line who attaches himself to the candidate and won't let go.
 * 1991 — Maureen Dowd, "Saving Face Means Having It in the Picture", The New York Times, 16 June 1991:
 * "Velcroids" are officials who form a Velcro-like attachment to President Bush at an event in Washington or on the road, sticking to him everywhere he goes in the hope of turning up next to him in newspapers or on television.
 * 1993 — Jack McKinney, Hostile Takeover, Del Rey (1993), ISBN 9780345370792:
 * She'd no sooner compliantly strapped herself into an out-of-the-way plush chair than Takuma Tanabe and an entourage of staff velcroids entered.
 * 1993 — Maureen Dowd, "Reporter's Notebook; Props and Fuzzy Anecdotes In a Sober, Grown-Up Talk", The New York Times, 23 September 1993:
 * The acknowledged vizier of House velcroids is Sonny Montgomery, the Mississippi Democrat who has been a Congressman since Bill Clinton was a student at Georgetown.
 * 1996 — Jerry Hayes, "Why I'm staying put", New Statesman & Society, 5 January 1996:
 * They are not a great deal different from the Tory velcroids who have made their mark toiling at the coal face of financial services, or screaming abuse in a council chamber along the Thames estuary.
 * 2000 — Steven Burgauer, The Brazen Rule, iUniverse (2000), ISBN 9780595005451, page 39:
 * Now, make no mistake about it, Flix, I very much want this appointment — indeed, I've already accepted it — but instead of just mechanically voting 'yes' every time those velcroids tell me to do so, I would very much like to make a more considered contribution.