Did I miss something? I can’t find the registration for either Whole Foods or Sentry listed on the City’s website.
One of the lobbyists for Sentry is Michael Christopher and he contacted me on Monday, but Sentry is not listed under his name. I didn’t see anyone else registered as representing Sentry. Of course, he has 5 working days to register, so even if he does register, we probably won’t see it on the city website until after the decision has been made.
I scrolled through the names to try to find anyone representing Whole Foods, but I didn’t see anyone. David Schwartz and Lee Pearson appeared at the Plan Commission on behalf of Whole Foods but they may have slipped through one of the new loopholes. If they didn’t do anything outside of the Plan Commission meeting, they don’t have to register.
Joseph Freed, of course, is registered with multiple lobbyists, at first I thought that they may be missing a few folks tho it is incredibly hard to tell since Dominic Lanni is listed on the City’s website as representing the Simpson St Free Press, even tho if you look at the form its clear he represents Freed on the Hilldale project.
So, it could be that some of these folks are registered as some LLC or another and its just not apparent who their representing. It’s interesting tho, we won’t know until July who actually lobbied whom and how much they spent on those activities, well after the decisions have been made.
This new lobbying ordinance is useless.
