MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis on Tuesday pitched a contract with a Montgomery-based lobbying firm that he argued would give the city more firepower.
Under the one-year contract, the city would pay The Bloom Group $156,000.
The mayor told reporters that the firm would help the city make its case during the upcoming legislative session, particularly with respect to his top issue – sales tax reform. Mobile and other large cities have argued that they are shortchanged by the way the state collects and distributes tax revenue from online sales…