Swett's name is listed on a 1997 federal Lobbying Registration form for Dick Swett Associates, Inc., in a section requiring the "name and title of each employee of the registrant who has acted or is expected to act as a lobbyist for the client."
...Another form, a Lobbying Report filed in 1999, lists the registrant firm as "Katrina Swett Associates (formerly Dick Swett Associates)." The form was signed by chief operating officer Shireen Tilley.
...Based on those forms, the Swetts were described as registered lobbyists in a 2007 report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The Swett Associates website archive from 2007 lists "government relations" as chief among its services, with clients including the U.S. State Department, Design Futures Council, Computer Generated Solutions, Hans Christian Andersen Foundation, Gold Coast Innovation Center, Raytheon, Guardian Industries and EUA Cogenex.
But do click the link to read the painful pretzel logic Dr. Swett uses to explain this away.
Here's the thing. This wouldn't have been much of a story. But Katrina Swett spent the summer going negative on Kuster for her work in New Hampshire. It's been a one-note campaign.
When Kuster spent yesterday outlining her clean energy jobs plan, Team Swett simply hit send on yet another negative LOBBYIST!!!1! release, to use just one of many examples.
