State Rep. La Shawn Ford said the governor’s office will meet with lawmakers, including members of the Black and Latino caucuses who have objected to the licensing process. Many of the finalist companies involve politically connected or big-money businessmen, including former Chicago police Superintendent Terrence Hillard, restaurant owner Phil Stefani and Bob Morgan, former head of the state’s medical marijuana program, which critics say flies in the face of the program’s goal of adding minority newcomers to the largely white-owned industry.