Jones’ chief of staff, Alexandra M. Hughes, wrote in a Sept. 17 email objecting to the plan to keep the plaque that the “speaker was concerned about the flags AND the language in the plaque. She knows the trust can outvote her, however, she asked me again to highlight the concerns about this plaque hanging in the State House. ... She asks, again, that the trust consider the message that this plaque remaining in the State House sends."