Maryland’s PJM army: 59 registered advocates
The governors went to Chicago yesterday to take on PJM, but in Maryland the fight runs through Annapolis — and the Ethics Commission rosters show who’s fielding armies.
I live my life by a series of guidelines which I think of as rules and when I was doing the Chicago PJM story I kept thinking about my Jack and Charlie rule. So if any of you are old enough to remember Jack and Charlie you may know what I’m talking about. But the point is I got this long list of names that the rule dictates. If I’m writing about lobbying and these companies, I should mention their lobbyists. Normally it’s one or two or a handful, but in this case it was hard to fit 59 people into the story in a meaningful way. So I thought I’d do a separate story on who’s working for PJM related companies. You may wonder why I picked the pictures I did. Primarily. They were handy or I like these people or I think they’re worthy of notice. And if you think your picture should be in here, did you ever think of sharing a picture with me?
BGE’s lobbying-year roster runs 19 deep:
Lisa Jones, Sean Malone, Gabriel Auteri, Caitlin McDonough, and Valerie Skvirsky at Harris Jones & Malone; J. Steven Wise, Danna Kauffman, Christine Krone, and Andrew Vetter at Schwartz Metz; Marta Harting, Brian Quinn, and John Stierhoff at Venable; Benjamin F. Andes IV, Brittany Jones, and Dytonia Reed in-house; plus solo shops Roderick Easter and former delegate C. William Frick.
PEPCO
Pepco counters with 24: Patrick Hogan, Bernie Marczyk, Manny Geraldo, Tiffany Harvey, and Delora Sanchez Ifekauche at Cornerstone; a team at Rifkin Weiner Livingston; Joseph Green, Gregory Proctor Jr., and Gregory Proctor III at G.S. Proctor; Peter Hammen and William Kress at Kress Hammen; Carville Collins at Saul Ewing; Robert Glidewell; and in-house advocates Allyson Black-Woodson, Ivan Lanier, Anne Klase, Amber Perry, and Poetri Deal.
Constellation
nearly $1.5 million in lobbying last year, more than any corporation in the state — fields 16,
including former House majority whip Talmadge Branch, David Carroll, Sushant Sidh, and Joy Weber at Capitol Strategies; former senator Roger Manno; Nicholas Manis, Joseph Bryce, John Favazza, and Andrea Mansfield at Manis Canning; and in-house advocates Lael Campbell, Mason Emnett, and Maurice Simpson.
The fresh filings point to the next fights: Rockland Capital’s private-equity energy money registered September 29 (Robert Garagiola, Compass GRP); NextEra Energy Resources and RWE planting flags (Lisa K. Smith, HB Strategies); and Harris Jones & Malone repping both BGE and battery-storage developer Flatiron Energy.
Source: Maryland State Ethics Commission, via The Maryland Wire