Martin said she believes that as long as she abstains from voting on potential legislation dealing with Axon body cameras, she would avoid a conflict of interest in her dual roles.

“I would just abstain like any other elected official does when they have a conflict of interest,” she told the Post-Dispatch, adding that she has seen other aldermen who work as lawyers or bankers have to abstain on issues affecting their clients.

“When I ran for office, I’d been a lobbyist for a long time. This was part of my campaign literature. I’ve always complied with the law,” she said Tuesday.

She has indicated in her ethics paperwork that she lobbies only state officials. Martin has long been a fixture in Jefferson City, first as a policy director and later as a lobbyist. Her husband is state Sen. Jacob Hummel, D-St. Louis.

Also lobbying for Axon is David Sweeney, who served as counsel to the Board of Aldermen before taking a job at the Clayton law firm Lathrop & Gage in 2015. He now works for Lewis Rice and has represented Axon for more than a year.

He is registered to lobby both state and local government officials, according to the Missouri Ethics Commission.

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