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  "text": "First of all, Jake, great job on this op-ed. FYI to you both: I've reached out to Amanda on the 5th floor and asked to chat with her sometime this afternoon about op-ed optics , timing, pros/cons, -- or if an alternative delivery method (interview with a reporter? press release?) would be more ideal. I got some more time to sit and digest what you wrote, Jake over lunch (lots of digesting happening over here...) and I'm honestly thinking that an op-ed could be Step 1, and Bill could piggyback it into follow-up interviews if this makes a big enough splash (which I think it could, given what a key tenet this whole \"wealth tax\" argument is to certain people in the news cycle these days).",
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  "text": "One flag I wanted to raise for you both to start chewing on in case we get the green light from Amanda and need to get ourselves into gear: This line is bugging me: \"...Vermont the people with the highest income in a given year are often not the wealthiest.\" I know exactly what you mean by it, Jake but I fear it could cue the world's tiniest violins for those reading. I'll think about ways to rephrase the same message.",
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  "text": "Thanks for engaging the 5th floor on this, Sarah. Feel free to pitch alternatives. Noting that was a Claude sentence and I actually liked Jake's OG a bit better! Does it land any different to your populist ear?  \"It sounds counterintuitive, but Vermont's wealthiest are not necessarily the ones with the highest income\"....[in a given year?]",
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  "text": "What about: \"Cue the tiny violins, but the Vermonters with over XXX of income in a particular year are not necessarily the state's welthiest\"",
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