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Stoneridge Group sends “redacted” Christmas message, pokes fun at Hillary Clinton emails

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With Christmas just around the corner, and New Year close behind, so arrives a flurry of politically themed holiday greetings, each providing a little bit of cheer (not to mention a few chuckles) to usher in 2016. One standout comes from Georgia-based political consultancy Stoneridge Group, a conservative firm for candidates looking for “bleeding-edge campaign know-how combined with an avant-garde approach to campaign execution” (as the Stoneridge website proclaims). Stonebridge offers a warm – yet highly redacted – Christmas message…

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Florida and Georgia governors hold private meeting on water

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The governors of Florida and Georgia are discussing how to resolve a long-running water dispute. Florida Gov. Rick Scott met for an hour Tuesday with Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal at the governor’s mansion. The meeting comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge from Florida seeking to limit Georgia’s withdrawals from the Chattahoochee River. Deal requested the meeting with Scott. The meeting was held behind closed doors. Florida argues that Georgia is guzzling more than its share…

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Rick Scott’s agenda amended to include meeting with Georgia governor Nathan Deal

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In a revision issued less than two and a half hours before the meeting was slated to take place, the office of Gov. Rick Scott released an amended daily schedule that includes a 3 p.m. meeting with Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, a defendant in a lawsuit Scott filed last year in the latest episode of Florida’s decades-long “water wars” with neighboring Georgia and Alabama. The delayed transparency may not be entirely on Scott’s end, however: Deal is reportedly going about a series…

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Court to issue confidentiality in Florida v. Georgia water case

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An official appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court to oversee a lawsuit filed by Florida against Georgia over water use says he will issue an order providing for confidential talks among the states. Robert I. Lancaster, a Maine attorney who is serving as special master in the case, in a conference call also called the media “relentless and ruthless” and said “they will do everything they can to publish everything that they can find out.” Claiming that Georgia’s unchecked growth…

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