Lake County Fiscal Rangers

Fiscal Rangers Voting Recommendations for Nov. 2nd Elections for Lake County, FL

Updated Nov. 5 - All our recommended candidates, even Mike Yost, were elected EXCEPT for two of the watchdog candidates for the North Lake Hospital Tax District, Richard Riker and Walt Dobruck.   And, stupid voters didn't understand Amendments 5&6 and how they will give the liberal courts power over deciding gerrymandering of political boundaries, and Amendment 8 failed.  AND, all the judges were retained, but maybe they got the message.  Well, maybe next time! vj

Revised and expanded - Wednesday, Oct. 27 - (added more info on FL 5th District Judges, School Board races and Lake County Water Authority races).  As we get additional details, we will add them to this document.  This document will remain at the top of the blog until after Nov. 2 elections, but scroll down to look for other issues posted after this page was written. vj

Here are our recommendations for your votes for the Nov. 2nd ballot, whether you mail it in, vote early, or wait and vote at a precinct polling location on Nov. 2.

I recommend you use your sample ballot and fill it in while reading this.

You can find your Lake County voting precinct HERE.

We do not have any recommendations for CITY elections or issues here. 

Our focus is on fiscally conservative County, State & Federal candidates, and we also include recommendations on JUDGES (not all should be retained) AND Florida State Amendments.  Most of our recommendations are

FiscalRangers Recommendations for August 24 Primaries in Lake County, Florida - Sullivan, Metz, Campione, Parks, Miller, Howard, Fischer need your vote

Below are my recommendations for local Lake County elections (not cities) for:

- Lake County Commissioner - Dist 2 and Dist 4

- Lake County School Board - three openings

- Congressional Dist. 8 (Alan Grayson is the Dem. incumbent)

- Florida State Rep. Dist 25

- Judges - nope - I don't have enough information because it is really hard to find information on Judges, and, they don't really affect most fiscal issues of local government.  However, Hodges & Miller are incumbents, and if you don't want incumbents, then go for Lyn & Odette. 

I have written various postings on specific candidate recommendations, but now need to summarize them and make recommendations on all the positions up for local voters in Lake County to decide.  I have attended most School District Board meetings AND workshops (i.e. for budgets) in the last four years, and I have attended most County Commission meetings in the last 18 months.  I ran for a while for Lake County Commissioner, District 4, until I realized I didn't have the funds or "army" of supporters like Leslie Campione.    My principle guidelines on selecting a candidate are:

- They aren't naive or inexperienced in intelligently evaluating spending requests from staff.  This is important because

Clout of Tea Party grows vs Republicans or Dems, According to Rasmussen Poll

A major political polling firm, Rasmussen,  has published a study that indicates the Tea Party groups have much more clout in the minds of voters than you might think.  Here is what they said:

Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
December 4-5, 2009

Suppose the Tea Party organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district or the Tea Party candidate from your district?
Democratic	36%
Tea Party	23%
Republican	18%
Not sure	22

However, the study above is misleading, because the REAL Tea Party folks do NOT intend to be a separate party, and many Tea Party followers consider themselves Republicans, as we explain below.

Florida's Lake County 8th Congressional District Candidate Patricia Sullivan on Fox News

Sarah Palin was in the Villages and Orlando at book signing events this week, and after Fox News interviewed Palin, they interviewed local Lake County resident Patricia Sullivan about her campaign for the 8th Congressional district position currently held by Alan "My Congressman is Nuts" Grayson.

Here's the link to Patricia's interview November 25th on FoxNews Fox & Friends, in case you missed it, or want to send it to some of your friends.  Enjoy.

 

http://patricia-sullivan.com/patricias-newest-video/

 

Have a great Thanksgiving Day!

Vance

New FiscalRangers.com Page on Lake County, Florida's 2010 Elections

Tavares, FL - The 2010 Lake County, Florida State and Federal Election cycle is ramping up, so I created a separate page to track the incumbents, candidates, issues and media sources.

It is titled "Elections 2010 for Lake County, FL" and is in the "Pages" section in the right hand column, or you can reach it with THIS LINK.

I will be adding details on the candidates as it comes, and will later rank the candidates and make recommendations regarding their support of fiscal conservatism and initiatives they have taken to improve efficiency, economy and effectiveness of government operations.   I plan to create a vetting process with interviews to also extract background on fiscal skills of incumbents and candidates.  A candidate who does not even know how the budget works for the agency they are running for will receive an F.

Vance Jochim

Chief Fiscal Watchdog...

FiscalRangers@comcast.net

Orlando & Lake Tea Parties Protest Liberal News Bias at Three Orlando TV Stations

Conservative protesters were scheduled to demonstrate in front of more than 100 local network TV stations around the country today.  They were protesting the liberal bias of the press and how they ignored the recent Tea party protest in Washington DC where over 1-million people showed up to protest the pending health care plan and continuous Federal spending by the Obama administration.

You can get the story of the planned events HERE.

So, today I went along with members of the North Lake County Tea Party to demonstrate in front of the ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates in Orlando.  About 100+ people from many locations (even Jacksonville residents showed up) joined together to demonstrate at all three local Orlando TV stations.

Here are SOME pictures.   I will post more later, plus tomorrow I will include a link to a website where all the pictures are.

Protesting liberal news bias at Channel 6 - CBS

Protesting liberal news bias at NBC WESH2 in Orlando

 

Protesting liberal news bias at CH 9 Orlando ABC

8th Congressional Candidate Patricia Sullivan and supporters at NBC TV

 

 

 

 

 

North Lake County Tea Party organizer Dave VonGunten signs petition expressing outrage at NBC liberal bias.

Alan Grayson Town Hall on Health Care was STACKED - Only 15 Conservatives admitted

Tavares, FL - US House Rep. Alan Grayson (Democrat) had his first Lake County Town Hall meeting last night in Tavares to mostly "get input" on the proposed Federal Health Care plans (aka Obamacare).  So I cover that meeting below plus first a report on an earlier event the same day.

Earlier, about 50 members of the North Lake County Tea Party who are against Obamacare "ambushed" Grayson at an earlier 5pm dinner at KiKu restaurant on the east side of Mount Dora.   Apparently a Grayson supporter had organized the event for members of the Mt. Dora Chamber of Commerce, and sent out an invitation that appeared to be from Chamber officers, but it was not.   One source told me that the