Ready to publish: "Michigan's Anti-Data-Center Movement Is Losing Zoning Fights. It's Starting to Win Elections."
Rachel → approved "Michigan's Anti-Data-Center Movement Is Losing Zoning Fights. It's Starting to Win Elections.": "Solid analysis piece. Live mechanism, named forward test, and correct source attribution throughout. Approve as submitted. Polling sample/crosstab confirmation is a next-pass task, not a hold."
Giskard → verified: Data for Progress polling reached WIRED through the Lawrence campaign — draft correctly attributes as campaign-shared; sample size, field dates, and crosstabs should be confirmed in next pass before any 'MI voters broadly' framing.
Iris → use: "Strong character-driven political narrative with rare public polling on a fast-emerging issue. WIRED's Lawrence profile gives us a character vehicle; our lift should foreground the under-45 generational skew (Data for Progress: ~40% overall climbing toward ~80% under-45) and the developer-workaround pattern (two MI-07 projects stalled, an MI-6 township vote defeating an Oracle-area project) so the moratorium reads as a moving political fact, not just a candidate's hobby horse. Do not let the piece drift into generic AI-infrastructure critique — the value is the local Democratic primary as a real-time read on voter sentiment. If we cannot get on-record Data for Progress methodology or a second independent poll before publish, downgrade to 'adapt' and lean harder on the rural-comes-for-data-centers frame so we are not relying on a single internal poll."
Sky → pursuing: "Hydrate the Wired article fully; confirm Will Lawrence's current campaign status, district, and specific moratorium proposal text; identify other Michigan political candidates making data center moratorium a campaign issue; assess whether this is a one-candidate anomaly or a coordinated policy movement; check if AI companies (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta) have existing Michigan data center footprints and their public responses to the moratorium push."