QUOTE(Cla68 @ Sun 11th December 2011, 8:25pm)
Jimbo
answers, but not before scolding Cla68 for asking such a "hostile" and "bad faith" question!
Dow Lohnes is
not registered with the U.S. Senate as representing the Wikimedia Foundation.
Neither is Dow Lohnes so registered with the U.S. House.
Sounds to me like Jimbo remembered the name of the firm that Godwin told them they should work with, but that the WMF hasn't actually hired them yet, but Jimbo wanted to sound like the Big Man on Capitol Hill, so he started dropping phrases like "our paid lobbyists" when he really meant to say "that lobbying firm that Godwin mentioned we ought to consider working with", because "our paid lobbyists" sounds so much more mature.
No Wikipedia article about Dow Lohnes. Must be an insignificant, non-notable firm without any substantial accomplishments. After all, there's a Wikipedia article about
Ponyta and Rapidash, and they never successfully lobbied a single case for their clients!
Or, it's possible that the WMF only hired Dow Lohnes in the
past 44 days:
QUOTE
(1) General rule
No later than 45 days after a lobbyist first makes a lobbying
contact or is employed or retained to make a lobbying contact,
whichever is earlier, or on the first business day after such
45th day if the 45th day is not a business day, such lobbyist
(or, as provided under paragraph (2), the organization employing
such lobbyist), shall register with the Secretary of the Senate
and the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
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