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Wolves-Only Roadway Cost Estimate (Roosevelt Room slide — $900M, S01E05)

An oversized projection/handout staged in the Roosevelt Room dominated by a bold "$900 million" headline. High-contrast type, glossed projection sheen, and black-and-white ledger columns present a fiscal breakdown; inset images of Pluie the wolf and map graphics suggest an 1,800-mile wolves-only corridor. Presenters jab at line items while C.J. scoffs, and the slide remains the visual fiscal anchor when Pluie’s death surfaces.

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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women

Pluie Pitch — Wolves-Only Roadway vs. Political Reality

An oversized slide with a bold "$900 million" headline is invoked/projectioned as the financial pivot; the figure provides the leverage for C.J.'s political rebuke and reframing of priorities toward schools.

Before: Prepared as part of the presenters' packet; ready to be shown to justify costs.

After: Shown and instantly weaponized in political terms; verbally rejected by C.J. as an inappropriate taxpayer expense.

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S1E5 · The Crackpots and These Women

Pluie's Death and C.J.'s Political Reframe

A projected cost estimate (the $900 million number) is introduced verbally as the fiscal anchor of the proposal, transforming idealistic talk into a concrete budgetary proposition that C.J. seizes on to reframe the matter politically.

Before: Held as a rhetorical or slide element to justify scale; not yet the focus.

After: Becomes the center of the exchange as C.J. ridicules and reassigns it to alternate spending priorities, deflating the pitch.

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