Lake County Fiscal Rangers

Local Blog Supports Continued Hospital Tax without Oversight vs Our Recommended Candidates

The writers of the local Lake County (FL) blog, Right Side of the Lake, just came out with an eblast supporting three candidates for the North Lake County Hospital District Board who are all Hospital supporters and want to continue the 1-mill tax without any specific improvements.

In contrast, I have written of my support of three alternate local Tea Party members who are running for the Board, and they are listed below.  

You can get more details at www.NorthLakeCountyHospitalDistrict.com  or at the Faceblook page "FixLakeTaxes".

Below is what I posted on the Right Side blog in response to their "left sided" article:

So, for the first time, Right Side endorses people who all want the hospital tax to continue without any specific improvements in oversight or accountability.

Here are reasons why I want Frances Grossi, Walter Dobruck, Jr. and Richard Riker to be elected to the Board of the North Lake County Hospital District:

- Both hospitals that split about $10.5 million in 1 mill property taxes this year are "non-profits" yet they have shown millions in investments, assets and funding of facades, spending on huge ads in local papers to sell high value medical services, etc.   Part of the deal when being a non-profit hospital (i.e. not paying property and other taxes at all) is that THEY are supposed to absorb the costs for indigent care.   So, if a baby is left without treatment, the hospital is not meeting their non-profit obligations and should lose that status.

- There hasn't been a vote by local taxpayers on this constant tax in 20 or more years. It is time to have a referendum.  This law is a redistribution of taxpayer assets and represents socialism in a local level.

- The law that establishes the District and the tax is vague and very badly written, so it does not define what is an acceptable or non-acceptable use of taxpayer funds.  In contrast, Disney Corp. gives out local grants to charities for kids, AND they have very specific rules about what is an allowable expenditure.  But, our Hospitals have no such requirements, and they could spend the funds on a trip to the Bahamas, and the current Hospital District Board wouldn't even know and would not take action anyway.  Thus the current Board, except for Marilyn Bainter, is avoiding any responsibility to ensure oversight of taxpayer funds. They are all "cronies" of the hospitals, and do not represent taxpayers at all.

- The Hospital District law does not mandate a separate set of accounting so that all spending can be traced and verified.  Instead, the hospitals dump their share into their general account and no one from the Board has ever (to my knowledge) verified exactly where the funds went.  Funds can go to the parent company of Waterman Hospital, or in the past could have been used to fund a new hospital in the Villages that benefits mostly Sumter county residents and not Lake County residents.  In such cases, the Board has not investigated this, has not ensured proper "audit trails" or  attempted to define what were allowable expenses.

This is why, as a former corporate audit manager and Certified Internal Auditor with 20 years experience, believe a total change in the Board is needed, and I support Frances Grossi, Walter Dobruck, Jr. and Richard Riker to be elected to the Board of the North Lake County Hospital District.  The hospital lobbyists wrote the original law so that it was so vague, and Right Side of the Lake, all the current Board members, and the candidates should all be embarrassed over the lack of oversight of the funds.  All the current board except for Marilyn Bainter should resign, since for two years they have refused to make any improvements in the regulations.   Additionally, the hospital managers could have developed a set of procedures to ensure adequate tracking, held public hearings on what was an acceptable expenditure and improved oversight and transparency over the spending on their own, but they have not. 
Vance Jochim

www.FiscalRangers.com   or get more details at www.NorthLakeCountyHospitalDistrict.com .

 

 

 

Smartphone App to Report VOTER Fraud during the elections - Try It!!

A group called American Majority Action has created a voter fraud reporting app for smartphones so you can report voter fraud as you encounter it. 

NOTICE:  After testing the app on my Droid, it appears to be sending data and doesn't explain what it is doing.  I turned it off.   I suggest to ONLY use the website, because this MIGHT be an app that is "FREE" but runs up phone charges without telling you.  I am especially concerned because this app only came out days before elections, and could get a lot of data or connection income before the users find out.   Check Google for reviews of this app - there currently are none.

HERE is the website for it - if you have an iPhone or Android OS phone (like Droid) , you can download the app and use it (but I don't recommend doing that until credible reviews can be found on what the app actually does).    Go to this website and click the "read more" icon to see more details .  You can download the app via iTunes or Droid's "Market" functions.

One of the founders was a former Republican advisor.   Most reported voter fraud benefits Democrats or union candidates, thus it is important for conservatives to monitor any observed incidents of voter fraud.

The app contains the ability to report 10 types of voter frauds such as voter intimidation, or allowing campaigners to be too close to the polling site.  The group will show the reported incidents on a national map, PLUS send reports to election officials.

Even though some areas in the US report major voter fraud (Houston - we posted on this awhile back), we have not see any evidence of problems in Lake County, but it never hurts to have the app installed in case you see something.

Check it out and test it, or just visit the site to see incidents reported on the map.

AND, go to Google images and search on "voter fraud" to see all the cartoons...like we did...

vj

Here is the website address in text:

http://americanmajorityaction.org/voterfraudapp/ 

Fake Tea Party Candidate Dunmire Falsely Claims Endorsement from Patricia Sullivan

 

 

The logo at left is for a REAL tea party organization.

However, the FAKE political tea party candidate for US Congressional 8th District (Orlando & Lake County area), Peg Dunmire, distributed a flyer to many homes by mail that claimed an endorsement from tea party leaders and included a picture of Patricia Sullivan, who ran in the primaries,but lost to Daniel Webster.  (See link below to press release and copy of the mailer) Webster is now the favored candidate by Republicans, this blog, and most REAL Tea Party activists (which is NOT a registered political party on the ballot).  

Dunmire's FAKE political tea party was created by Democrats to split the vote so Democrat Alan Grayson could be re-elected.

Get that?

Anyway, Dunmire is trying to confuse uneducated conservatives and tea party followers by claiming she was endorsed by REAL tea party activists, Sullivan and others, when that is not true.

So, Sullivan has announced a press conference for 8am tomorrow at the Orlando offices of Daniel Webster to denounce Peg Dunmire's attempt to confuse voters.  Dunmire even included a picture of Sullivan in the mailer without permission, and the picture is copyrighted.

Below is the press release from Sullivan in pdf format.  Watch for news about the issue in the media.  REMEMBER, the active tea parties are NOT a political Tea party, and the "Tea Party" that is listed on the ballot with Dunmire's name is a knock off of the Tea Party name by Democrats.

Don't believe them.  Vote for Daniel Webster and ignore Dunmire, Alan Grayson or any other candidate.

Download SullivanPresser RE Dunmire

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 Here is what Dave VonGunten from the North Lake County (FL) Tea Party sent out:

To:  North Lake TEA Party Patriots

Say It Ain't So

OK

I WILL

Patricia Sullivan is NOT endorsing Peg Dunmire
Or any of the other TEA political party candidates.
Unless something has changed since the Unity Rally

Todd Long, Dan Fanelli and Ross Beiling
ARE NOT endorsing any TEA Party Candidates as indicated in the Dunmire mailer.

This notice is in reponse to a mailer sent by Diane Kepus for Peg Dunmire.  It featured Patricia Sullivan's picture which was unauthorized for use by the Dunmire campaign.  It is an absolute LIE that Patricia, Todd Long, Dan Fanelli and Ross Beiling are supporting Peg Dunmire.  Who stands to gain from votes for Peg Dunmire?  Who is underhanded enough to finance this mailer?  A vote for Dunmire is stolen from whom?  Obviously, the answer to that question is Daniel Webster.  Who then gains if a vote is cast for Dunmire?

This is the lowest of low in political dirty tricks.

A Press Conference Is Scheduled!

Patricia Sullivan will give a Press Conference from Daniel Webster's campaign headquarters on Monday, October 25, at 8AM.
Daniel Webster Campaign Headquarters
3506 St. Valentine Way
Orlando

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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

Video of Last Saturday's 1000 Patriot Walk - Very good!

Below is a link to a great, short video of last Saturday's walk in Orlando AND Eustis, and includes shots of Lake County citizens like Patricia Sullivan, Senator Carey Baker and others.

Watch it, then sign up for more neighborhood walks to help get the word out to support FISCALLY conservative candidates and trounce liberal Alan Grayson and others.

Be part of the solution to end Democrat efforts to implement socialism.

Matter of fact, help Obama implement socialism by LAYING off a Democrat today!  Let them experience the benefits of relying on big government and Obamacare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjSvbVm6Yp4 

vj - have you posted conservative candidate signs in your yard yet?  Git it done!

MASSIVE Voter FRAUD during Obama Campaign Disclosed in Houston

The Reuter's Article is HERE.   It was posted on Sept. 25th, and already has over 550 comments posted.

It seems that a get out the Vote project run by a member of a local chapter of the Houston SEIU union (similar to Acorn programs) resulted in huge numbers of fake voters who voted during the Obama elections in Harris County, TX.  Harris County has 1.9-million voters and is the second largest county in the country with almost 900 voting precincts. 

Read the article to know more.   It seems a local activist got 50 friends to monitor voting operations and witnessed much fraud., such as id's not being checked for each voter.  They then expanded the search and researched precints where houses listed more than six voters.   The average precinct had 1800 - 2400 voters, but they found one precinct with 24,000 voters, and then researched why.

Quotes from the article:

"But we came across one (precinct) with 24,000, and that was where we started looking."

It was Houston's poorest and predominantly black district, which has led some to accuse the group of targeting poor black areas. But Engelbrecht rejects that, saying, "It had nothing to do with politics. It was just the numbers.”

“Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address,” Engelbrecht said. “We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."

Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications

from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.

Finally, when the voting fraud was disclosed by officials after their own investigation, a fire conveniently destroyed $40-million of voting machines the day after the disclosure.   That will leave the elections department only six weeks to devise a replacement voting system.

I am going to use this article to do some research about whether similar fraud has occured in Lake County.

When I worked as a consultant in Iraq, one method they used to prevent voter fraud was to require each voter to dip their thumb in black ink that could not be removed for several days.   That prevented the same person from voting more than once.   However, that did not prevent ballot box stuffing, etc.

This also indicates why it is important to volunteer to monitor polling places.  Each political party has a program to assign volunteer monitors at each voting precinct location to ensure voters follow the rules.  If you have not done this before, consider asking your political party about volunteering to monitor a voting location. I did that in the last election, but I has in a retirement community where they were very well run and hardly any problems occurred.   As this article describes, the problems are in low income communities, not the wealthy areas. 

VJ

Republican Victory "Party Trend" Explained by Political Consultant Dick Morris

FiscalRangers has received an exclusive email briefing from political consultant Dick Morris explaining how the Republicans may achieve a massive victory in November.   Well, actually, it came in a canned email we subscribe to, but it did only show our email address, so our email must be exclusive!

Morris is the political consultant and FoxNews consultant who once worked for Bill Clinton, and switched to the Republican side later.

Morris Explains the theory of "Party Trend", which happens in the last 10 days of elections, when many undecided voters swing one way or another.  He is forecasting a

Dirty Politics Strikes Lake County

Today I received an attack political flyer in the mail from a stealth "527" attack group in Tallahassee.

Their name is "Florida First Forever, Inc" and it is one of several front corporations apparently setup to attack election candidates without easily being able to find out who did it.  There are three people as officers in the group, Daniel Burns, Tom Wheeler & Jonathan Andrews.  THIS link shows you a diagram of various corporations connected to Andrews, including FFF.  Scroll down on that website to see the diagram showing the connections.  It is a Florida 527 Political Filing organization, as described HERE.   The group was setup in 2008, and the above website indicates they have received no contributions or spent any funds, so the website must be out of date, or funds were received just recently before required reports.  We will follow up on this.

The flyer attacked

Roadside Snipe Signs & Political Sign Capers Abound in Lake County, and our Cheerleader Solution

Aren't you tired of all the advertising signs on roadsides?  We have some sign caper stories and a proposed solution involving CHEERLEADERS.

City or County ordnances define what is legal regarding business signs, and what is not, but it seems more and more businesses, and even politicians, are ignoring the rules. There are usually separate ordnances defining when political signs can be posted and where.

We will describe the two types of signs, and some capers going on, and maybe a possible solution  involving CHEERLEADERS (which increases our readership also!  We could not find pictures of local Cheerleader car washes).

1 Commercial business signs - posted illegally

Lake County towns like Tavares are infested with "snipe" roadside signs... you see them sprout like mushrooms on corners, medians and anyplace where drivers might see them.  They are placed there by businesses that would rather trash the roadsides with signs selling printing, medicine, real estate, or signups to private kids sports programs.  My understanding is that such signs are illegal if placed in roadside medians, which are usually defined as the space between roads (median strips), or in the grass between sidewalks and curbs.  On some highways, like State roads, the state property might be 6-8 feet from the curb, even on the other side of a sidewalk.  You can usually tell where the line between government right of way and private property is located because the responsible government will mow the grass more often, leaving a cut line indicating the median setback.

Recently, at two different times, while driving, I spotted people setting up illegal business signs on HWY 19 near 441 and told them

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