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Trump Flag Waving in Lake County, FL to offset NY trial decision

The New York Trial of President Donald J. Trump just resulted in him being found guilty on many counts. The Lake County, FL Republican Party (REC) will organize TWO Trump flag-waving events on Friday, May 31 from 4-6 pm to still support him, one in Tavares, FL, and one in Clermont, FL. Read more →

Lake County, FL Election Integrity Town Hall, with Tom Vail, Mike Levine, Becky Sirolli & LCEIVPC!

Lake County, FL Election Integrity Town Hall, with Tom Vail, Mike Levine, Beckie Sirolli, Sue Parent, Mary Vanatta, June Lang, Diane Venetta, Andy Dubois. Learn what is needed to ensure local election integrity. Read more →

Tavares, FL holds update for Tavares Planning & Zoning Comm - Apr. 18, 2024

This Apr. 18, 2024, 65-minute meeting video was not a regular Tavares, FL P&Z meeting, but an apparent annual update for the P&Z Committee on Tavares commercial and residential developments, a good overview of the Planning profession history, and an overview of the Florida Live Local Act. They also provided large maps (see attachments) of pending residential and commercial developments and discussed them.  Read more →

FL House Dist 26 Candidates Addie Owens & Mike Levine on Video

Lake County, FL Republican Residents in North-West Lake County need to know who is best for them by watching this video.  These are the two leading candidates in the elections for FL House Dist 26, 2024. Read more →

City of Leesburg, FL loses special magistrate hearing over residential development

The City of Leesburg, FL Commissioners lost a special magistrate's hearing regarding a developer litigation over Sunnyside Lake Landholding and planned construction of a 159-residence subdivision. Reading this article may give members an insight into how bad it can get when elected officials actually stand up to a developer proposal. Notice one of the contentious issues is the effect of the proposed development on local traffic where the traffic study said in my opinion "no problem here..." but City Commissioners believed the opposite. "Mayor Jimmy Burry also felt the roads were not adequate despite the traffic studies presented by the developer...". Residents need to hold Florida House & Senate members accountable until reform legislation is passed. Legislation is needed to require that affected cities or counties hire the Traffic Impact Study (TIS) engineers, not the developers. Here is a link to the Leesburg-news.com article. https://www.leesburg-news.com/2024/03/30/leesburg-commissioners-sidestep-costly-lawsuit-over-disputed-development/? And here is a link to the Sunnyside traffic impact study (TIS). Become familiar with them because in my opinion, they are biased toward the developers because the DEVELOPER, not the city, hires them for an "objective" study. Note: This TIS was published in Oct. 2019 or five years ago. A more current one may... Read more →

Video of FL House Dist. 27 Republican Candidates, Beckie Sirolli & Steve Shives

The two Republican candidates for FL House District 27, Beckie Sirolli and Steve Shives, appeared at the Lake County, FL Republican Party HQ in Tavares, FL on Feb. 23, 2024. This video was edited and uploaded Mar. 30, 2024 by Vance Jochim. Read more →

Video of Lake County, FL County Commissioner Kirby Smith at LFRWC lunch Feb. 14, 2024

Lake County, FL County Commissioner Kirby Smith spoke at the Feb. 14, 2024 lunch organized by the Lake Federated Republican Women's Club (LFRWC) in Tavares, FL, and here is our video of his talk. Read more →

Tom Vail - Candidate Video for Lake County, FL Supervisor of Elections -Tavares, FL - Feb. 16, 2024

March, 2024: Tom Vail is running for Lake County, FL Supervisor of Elections against incumbent Alan Hays. This post included links to a full video of Tom Vail on both YouTube and Rumble speaking at the headquarters of the Lake County, FL Republican Party HQ in Tavares, FL on Feb. 6, 2024. Read more →

Idaho County Library flips to conservatives and leftist staff quit

A Leftist County Library Board in Idaho was voted out by parents and replaced with conservatives due to anger over existance of left leaning children's books in the Libary. The activists were assisted by Mass Resistance, that works on reversing leftist controls over libraries. One of the villains in this issue is the left controlled American Library Association, ALA, in which membership by libraries has been banned by some Florida libraries as well as in Idaho. Read the details here: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/ID-library-staff-quitting/index.html Vance Read more →

AI Generated List of 15 Liberal Books with examples of a liberal policy followed by a "Conservative Critique"

This post used AI, Chat-GPT-3.5 to generate a list of 15 "woke" books with a woke policy example, then added a conservative critique to each example. It shows the power of AI, but this information was not vetted and intended to show a use for AI. Read more →

Hysterical Parody: Hitler calls Biden to ask him to retire... Read more →

Sabbatical Time for 2024

I plan to take a 2024 first quarter sabbatical from posting here on FiscalRangers.com while I work on some projects listed below. I expect to return after the first quarter, 2024. Learning AI techniques to do article research and develop side income - it is the most technically disrupting influence on humans since the gasoline engine, electricity and the internet. I was just elected again to be Chair of the local School District Audit Committee, so I need to handle some issues related to recruiting a new Internal Audit Director, etc. I need to finish my Kindle ebook draft on internal audit operational case studies from my years of experience in that field. Develop a YouTube channel showing videos on topics related to operational internal auditing as described in the pending Kindle book above. Build a database of the 14 cities in Lake County to use for comparisons - some cities have twice the millage rate of others and potential home buyers should know those facts. Most city council members are ignorant of efficiency tracking methods and I need to sell them on performance auditing, performance tracking dashboards, etc. Finishing my 1965 Mustang, owned for 53 years so I can... Read more →

Why the Lake County, FL School District Needs to Embrace AI and prepare students and teachers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expanding at a rapid rate. This is my commentary to the Lake County, FL School District to adopt, rather than reject AI and use it to teach students, administrators and teachers how to use it to be more competitive in the new AI world. In my opinion, AI is a more important skill than algebra or Read more →

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas was just fired by the Board. This is his final statement to the staff today, Feb. 20, 2023

James O'keefe spent 49 minutes today, Feb. 20, 2023 explaining in a video the entire, not well known, train of events leading to his departure from his investigative watchdog group Project Veritas. It happened strangely forced by a hostile Board just days after their huge expose of the Pfizer executive admitting apparent improper actions related to their Covid vaccines.   Read more →

Lake County, FL Republican Party to meet at the Howey Mansion in Howey-in-the-Hills, FL on Jan. 24, 2023

The Lake County, FL Republican Party meets next week on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 7pm at the Howey Mansion in Howey-in-the-Hills, FL and it should be exciting with a new Chair, Anthony Sabatini, and a vote on supporting Trump. All Lake County, FL Republicans should attend and see the Mansion. Read more →

Video of New stash of Joe Biden Top Secret evidence found in blogger's trash can in Lake County, FL

Amazingly, it seems that Joe Biden's Top Secret stuff is everywhere. A local blogger (Me - Vance Jochim) found an entire box labeled "Top Secret - for Joe Biden Only" in his trash can in Lake County, FL on MLK Day, Jan. 16, 2023. Most prior Biden stashes were Top Secret Federal documents, but this Top Secret Joe Biden box contained highly questionable publications and T-shirts. Watch the short video to see the contents. https://youtu.be/SLTtyNJFIVk Note: If YouTube shuts down this video, go to our Rumble account Rumble.com/FloridaVance for the backup copy being uploaded soon. Vance Jochim - [email protected] Tavares, FL Read more →

New Artificial Intelligence software tool from Microsoft's OpenAI's ChatGPT will change professions and cost jobs

The new tool, ChatGPT from Microsoft's OpenAI is exploding in coverage on the internet with many YouTube videos on how to use it for professional fields, to make money, to write term papers, to write programming code, etc. I cover some of the benefits and issues and strategies needed for my local Lake County, FL School District. Read more →

Texas Election Integrity voters combine efforts, plan big TX Legislators full day briefing on Jan. 24

Conservative Texas vlogger Debbie Georgatos of AmericaCanWeTalk.com had a great video segment on Rumble on Jan. 12, 2023, explaining a growing TexasFirst.org movement to uncover and document election integrity issues and get legislative changes to improve election integrity. Read about the event and get the links here. Read more →

Updated Jan 15, 2023: Jan. 9, - Lake County, FL Legislators' Delegation meeting in Leesburg - video uploaded and link added

Updated Jan 15, 2023: The video links were added for this meeting for the Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, Lake County FL Legislative Delegation, which is the four FL legislators representing Lake County, FL and they will decide on a local law about Rural Protection Areas, as well as listen to 35+ citizens, agency reps and community groups asking for support or funding for their projects or issues. Read more →

Tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, the Lake County Board has their monthly meeting to review planning & zoning proposals

The Lake County, FL County Board is having their monthly planning and zoning meeting to review and approve P&Z proposals, including high density developments without concern for their effects on traffic gridlock. Citizens need to take action, or you won't be able to drive to work in my opinion. Read more →

Lake County, FL contracted hauler keeps missing recycling pickups - should the County adopt a new logo of an overflowing trash can?

A garbage hauler newly contracted by the Lake County, FL government has missed at least five recycling pickup runs in my County residential area, and we discuss the issue. Read more →

Phone fraud cost Mt Dora, FL business $30,000. Read this to protect yourself.

A Mt. Dora, FL business lost $30,000 through a sophisticated phone scam where the victim shared info that allowed $30,000 to be transferred out of his checking account. Read the details and protect yourself. Read more →

Lake County, FL Republicans elect new 2023 Chair, Anthony Sabatini and other officers

Dec., 13, 2022 Tonight's Lake County, FL Republican Party met in Eustis, FL to elect new officers. Former State Rep. Anthony Sabatini was elected Chair, 1st Vice Chair was Tom Vail (recent candidate for FL House), 2nd Vice Chair was Sam Durrance, Corresponding Secty was Sue Ferrera Parent, Recording Secty was June Lang. Additionally, five District Managers were elected: 1 - ?? Benoit (Chuck?), 2 - Kris Jurski, 3 - Loretta Garretson, 4 - Alex Whicher, 5 - Apóstol Ludy López. Congratulations to all. The trend was to elect people who were active or supporting of more aggressive policy stances on election integrity, and other policies needing action by the RPOF. Vance Jochim Read more →

Oct. 5th is the TEN Year Anniversary of FiscalRangers.com - so naturally our computer motherboard crashed!

Tavares, FL Oct. 2, 2016 Our TEN year anniversary is this coming Wed., Oct. 5, 2016, so naturally our main 7 year old Windows 7 desktop computer, "Miami", crashed and is in the shop for a new motherboard. THUS I have to use an older backup laptop, Atlanta, to post to the blog, which is a pain. BUT, we are using this as an excuse to celebrate our anniversary and build a new computer, Dallas, from scratch to handle editing and video editing duties. I describe the new system below for you computer geeks. Fortunately almost every application I use is cloud based, so they can be used on my older alternate laptop. EXCEPT, I use Outlook email on my PC which uses contact lists, email archives, etc on the PC. Everything is backed up, but it is a pain to move email lists etc. to the old reliable HP laptop I am using ("Atlanta"), so there will be no email distribution until Miami is back. I also cannot edit videos on this old TEN year HP laptop purchased about when this blog started, so I can't upload videos yet to the "FiscalRangersFlorida" YouTube channel. However, to celebrate the ten... Read more →

Tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 22 is the Investiture of the two re-elected Lake County, FL Board members

This is a quick commentary on the investiture of two re-elected Lake County, FL County Commissioners, Leslie Campione and Sean Parks. In addition, I make a recommendation who should be selected on Dec. 6th as the next Chair of the Lake County Board. Read more →

Lake County Issues Plans for improving yard waste and garbage collection timeliness

Lake County has announced action steps to speed up collection of yard waste and garbage due to delays caused by Hurricane Ian cleanup tasks. This is for the Lake County residents, and City Residents are affected separately by their city trash hauling operations. Before Hurricane Ian, I gave public input at the County Board meeting about missed trash pickups after finding out the staff had no method to track hauler follow ups when a pickup was missed and complaint filed with the County. "Managers" in government need to "MANAGE" actions under them with status reports etc. and not just hope a contractor like a hauler follows up on a complaint. When residents send a complaint about missed garbage pickups, the County needs to TRACK such complaints to completion like IT departments do with incident reporting and status tracking software. Not doing so is in my mind management malpractice. As of Nov. 6, my yard waste trash has been sitting now in my driveway for THIRTEEN days. I have resulted in putting some of it in the normal garbage bins which ARE picked up on the assigned date (Fridays). If Lake County misses collecting your yard waste or garbage, send an... Read more →

Century Link attempts illegal underground fiber optic cable installation in my neighborhood.

Century Link attempts illegal underground fiber optic cable installation in my neighborhood but we caught them. Read more →

New Research Report on Florida's "Election Syndicate" of Democrat & China connected vendors

Pete Antonacci speaking recently about Florida election integrity before he died mysteriously. This devastating expose report below on Florida voting system loopholes is from researcher and data analyst Kris Jurski of The-Peoples-Audit.org who I have covered before and uploaded videos of him at Rumble.com/FiscalRangers. This information calls into question the "integrity" of Florida's voting system espoused by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Pictured is the recently deceased Director of the Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security, Pete Antonacci, who still has not been replaced. Is that "Office" all a shiny object to distract voters from the evidence shown below by Kris Jurski? WATCH the new Catching Fire News video linked below that features Kris Jurski and also READ the report below. Then use your anger to share this with others and call or email your Florida elected officials. Vance Jochim - FiscalRangers.com Published Oct. 14, 2022 ================================================= The webpage for this report is: https://www.fiscalrangers.com/2022/10/new-research-report-on-floridas-election-syndicate-of-democrat-china-connected-vendors.html Subject: Florida Election Syndicate With less than 30 days left before this crucial election, this video is a must watch: https://rumble.com/v1nsn8o-floridas-election-syndicate.html You would assume that Florida ballots, especially ready-to-mail ballots, were all done locally with the direct supervision of your local SOE, but you would be very... Read more →

2022 Lake County, FL Republican Party Official Nov. 8 Voter Guide - here it is

Here is the web link to the official Nov. 8, 2022 Federal, State & local voter guide of recommendations from the Lake County, FL Republicans. It includes recommendations for Judges and city council officials in Lake County, FL. You can download the front and back page pdf's and print them. Read more →

Routine Yard Waste pickup in Lake County, FL areas has been delayed due to Hurricane Ian'

Here is info on why Lake County, FL yard waste haulers are not picking up routine yard waste - Oct. 13, 2022. Read more →

Lake County, FL Republican Party approves Resolution 2022-02 to request FL Governor Investigate the Aug. 23, 2022 Florida Primary Election

The Lake County, FL Republicans passed a resolution to send to FL Gov. DeSantis and other officials calling for an "investigation and review" of the August 23, 2022 Florida Primary Election based upon significant evidence uncovered by researchers. I will post it on this page as soon as it is issued - probably tomorrow, Oct. 5, 2022. They also voted for Barbara Price to be the new Lake County, FL Republican State Committee Woman. Vance Jochim Oct. 4, 2022 FiscalRangers.com Read more →

Will Hurricane Ian Damage cause major Nov. 8, 2022 voting issues for Florida?

This linked article covers issues affecting the Nov. 8th election voting due to Hurricane Ian damage. Read more →

New Trustees Appointed to Lake Sumter State College by FL Gov. Ron DeSantis

Governor Ron DeSantis recently appointed five new or renewing members to the Lake-Sumter State College District Board of Trustees. I was at the recent Sept. 21m 2022 LSSC Board meeting and the picture is from there. Here is the Link to the LSSC Board of Trustees which has pictures of the members. Below is the official press release. Governor Ron DeSantis Appoints Five to the Lake-Sumter State College District Board of Trustees On August 26, 2022, in News Releases, Recent Appointments, by Staff TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Bret Jones, Timothy Morris, and Marlene O’Toole and the reappointment of David Hidalgo and Ivy Parks to the Lake-Sumter State College District Board of Trustees. Bret Jones Jones, of Clermont, is a Lawyer for the Law Offices of Bret Jones, P.A. He is a member of Cornerstone Hospice Foundation and Imagine Schools at South Lake. Jones earned his bachelor’s degree in management from Webber International University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida. Timothy Morris Morris, of Leesburg, is the Vice President of Ernie Morris Enterprises, Inc. He is a member of the National Office Products Association, and Rotary International and is the Treasurer... Read more →

Major accounting & auditing firm discloses how "Woke" California is in employment ad

A quick idea of how bad the "Woke" hiring requirements are in California derived from ESG. I was reviewing job postings for internal auditors on Indeed.com. A Protiviti ad for an "Orlando Internal Audit and Financial Advisory Consultant" included the following in their job criteria, saying "Protiviti will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance." The same was specified for Los Angeles. A search on "California Fair Chance Ordinance" indicates it must be a state wide regulation requiring cities to implement it by Ordinance. So, if your employer hires a SF or LA based or California "Internal Audit Consultant" from Protiviti or perhaps any other firm, they may have a criminal history. I wonder if Protiviti discloses that to their clients. Protiviti Internal Audit Heroes Here is the link to the ad posting. Vance Jochim FiscalRangers.com - retired Internal Audit Manager Published Sept. 24, 2022 === Read more →

Florida Ranks #1 of all states in "Education Freedom" in new report by Heritage Foundation

Florida ranks #1 in a new Heritage Foundation Education Freedom Report Card report, announced at the Heritage Foundation launch event in Orlando on Sept. 9, 2022, which I attended. They announced state rankings in a new study to evaluate "Education Freedom" in all the states. It ended with a speech on Education reforms championed by FL Gov. Ron DeSantis. Florida State Education Commissioner Manny Diaz also attended and spoke. A link HERE shows the official Heritage Foundation video stream of most of the conference. See the separate Twitter link below to the ending presentation by FL Gov Ron DeSantis. Event Agenda: https://events.heritage.org/education/agenda I will also be posting my full video of the event soon to the YouTube/FiscalRangersFlorida channel as well as the Rumble.com/FiscalRangers channel, including a speech by FL Gov. Ron DeSantis. But right now, you can use the above link to see all the panels, including an overview of how rankings were calculated, and below you can use the Twitter link to see Florida Ron DeSantis's speech on his Education policies and reforms. Here is the 58 minute Twitter link to Ron DeSantis's speech at the Heritage Foundation Education event. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1djGXlgaeLjGZ Event speaker list with bios: https://events.heritage.org/education/2415719 The state... Read more →

My Twitter search results on "Stolen Election" today

Twitter needs to dump the bias... Read more →

Laura Loomer "loses" in vote counts, but refuses to concede due to fluctuations in vote counts

Yesterday, Aug. 23rd, was primary voting day in Lake County and the rest of Congressional District 11. Laura Loomer was beating incumbent Dan Webster for US Congress Dist. 11 in Florida until the very last hours of the election period with his totals rose strangely. Thus she said she will not concede until an investigation of vote counts is concluded.  Read more →

Fox News visits The Villages to Interview Laura Loomer, candidate for US Congress District 11 in Florida

Aishah Hasnie from Fox News came out to The Villages, FL on August 21 to interview Laura Loomer, candidate for Florida's US Congress District 11 seat. We provide some details and a link to the video. Read more →

Vance Jochim's Election Recommendations for Lake County, FL Election Primaries on Aug. 23, 2022

Here are my (Vance Jochim) recommendations for Lake County, FL primary election candidates for the August 23, 2022 primaries. Read more →

Dirty Politics in Florida's Congressional District 11 Republican Primaries

A couple in the Villages, FL supporting Dan Webster for US Congressional District 11 formed a PAC and funded attack ads against Republican Laura Loomer. BUT, they also approached a third Republican candidate, Gavriel Sorviano, and asked if he would quit the race and endorse Webster. He refused and told his story to VoxPopuli, which printed an expose, which is the source for our story. Read more →

Two Lake County, FL Election Hob Nobs hold election straw polls this week in Clermont & Leesburg

Tomorrow, Monday, Aug. 8th, 2022 and on Tuesday, Aug. 9th, there are two election "Hob Nobs" run by local Chambers of Commerce to let the public meet and greet all local election candidates and to vote for them in a straw poll that is administered by the Lake County Supv. of Elections. We provide details and encourage Lake County, FL voters to attend and "vote" in a straw poll to support their favored candidates. Read more →

Laura Loomer, candidate for US House Florida Dist. 11 - Meet & Greet, July 25, 2022 in Clermont, FL

Candidate Laura Loomer, running against incumbent Daniel Webster for US Congress District 11 (mostly Lake County, FL) gave a rousing speech during her Meet & Greet event at Clermont's River Church on July 25, 2022. We missed the first 10 minutes, but there were many standing ovations for the points she focuses on, such as the incumbent's low voting attendance records, lack of support of Donald Trump, etc. In my opinion, one failure of Webster was to vote for billions to be sent to the Ukraine, which was bad enough, but then there was no oversight requirement, thus corruption will run rampant over all the equipment sent to the Ukraine. Vance Jochim [email protected] Read more →

Florida US House Dist. 11 Candidate Laura Loomer is having an open house in Leesburg

Laura Loomer, candidate for the Florida US Congressional Dist. 11 (mosly Lake County and nearby county areas) is having an open house in Leesburg, Tue. July 26. Read the details and flyer here! Read more →

Florida & Lake County, FL Election Fraud expert Kris Jurski on CatchingFireNews vlog.

IT Election fraud expert Kris Jurski explains on Catching Fire News how an analysis of Florida State and Lake County, FL election data shows possible thousands in unexplained or fake votes. Kris is a member of the Lake County, FL Election Integrity & Security Committee. Read more →

Lora Lumer (you know who we mean), candidate for Florida US House District 11, spoke on July, 12, 2022 at the Villagers for Trump

Lora Lumer (you know who we mean - Laura Loomer), candidate for Florida US House District 11, spoke on July, 12, 2022 at the Villagers for Trump where opponent Daniel Webster did not show up, and here is their video. Another opponent who attended and spoke was Gavriel Rosario.  Incumbent US Congressman Dan Webster, could not attend. Read more →

Chinese Government discovers even THEY have WOKE school text books!

The South China Post tells us that a controversy arose when people complained about some "inappropriate" illustrations and text in some elementary student MATH text books. "State-run People’s Education Press hit by claims of sexually and ideologically inappropriate pictures" The SCMP hid most of the article behind a paywall, but you can read enough to get the idea how WOKE culture is not being investigated by the CCCP. One accusation was that illustrations seemed to make the kids look "ugly". Vance Jochim Read more →

New May 15, 2022 Biden Affordable Housing Action Plan described by Realtor vlog in Louisiana

On May 15, 2022, the Biden Administration announced an Affordable Housing Action Plan, and this post describes it via a video, plus links and observations. Read more →

The Movie Rigged2020 is out, which documents how Zuckerbucks stole the 2020 Election for Byden

The movie "Rigged2020" is out online. It documents how Facebook Founder Mark Z. helped Byden steal the 2020 election. Read more →

Homeschooling? Thinking about it for any reason?

Here is the site of the Florida Parent Educators Association (FPEA) which has all sorts of info, and is holding its annual conference in Orlando in May 2022. Bookmark it to send to others when they discuss this later. Lake County, FL schools are pretty well run, but you never know when an alternative is needed to government-run schools such as when you are across the border in Orlando. Vance Jochim FiscalRangers.com Read more →

Is your County Supervisor of Elections Intelligent Enough to Prevent Phishing attempts to get office logins?

Election thieves are targeting Superintendents of Elections and employees with fake emails in phishing attempts to get their office login info. Are Florida SOEs smart enough to prevent their logins being hijacked? This article explains it and the notice sent out by the FBI warning them. And, HERE is the official FBI notice to SOE's. The question is, is your Florida SOE and staff intelligent enough to avoid such phishing attempts to get their password? In my opinion, as a retired information systems auditor and anti-corruption manager, I personally do not think so. Vance Jochim FiscalRangers.com [email protected] Apr. 4, 2022 Read more →