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Leesburg Council Meeting on Growth Limiting Resolution - Citizens Denied Support for Annexation Moratorium

After a contentious Leesburg, FL City Commissioner meeting last night (Apr. 14, 2025), four of five commissioners voted against perhaps 300 citizens there to support a resolution to limit residential annexations for 1+ years. Read more →

About Vivek & Elon's DOGE or Dept. of Government Efficiency and how to apply

Here is the new, official X account for Vivek and Elon's DOGE or Department of Government Efficiency, and how to apply for a job. Read more →

Lake County, FL Republican Party passes resolution Censure of David & Mark Jordan

In June, 2024, Lake County, FL Tax Collector and his brother Mark Jordan, committed an underhanded dirty trick to fool incumbent and 2024 re-election candidate Lake County Property Appraiser Carey Baker into thinking he had no opponent, and at the last minute filed Mark Jordan for the position while Carey had filed as a write-in, thinking he had no opponent. This post includes the details and an approved resolution by the Lake County, FL Republican Party calling for Mark Jordan to drop from the race. In my opinion, David Jordan, who had no opponent, should also drop from his race and let the Governor appoint a new Tax Collector. 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Florida 2020 voter registration database analysis shows questionable fluctuations. Did ERIC Cause it?

2020 Florida voter registration analysis and questionable fluctuations in different party registration volumes are shown in this 10-minute video of the Florida statewide voter registration database. Also, could there be a pattern of fake registrations? Speculation is that Florida's membership in "ERIC" may be the reason. Go to the Rumble channel to see the 10 minute video. Vance Jochim FiscalRangers.com Read more →

Got Septic? New Distributed community Septic System discussed at Lake County, FL Board meeting March 22, 2022

Got Septic? If you have a septic tank or considering a replacement, or buying a new home outside city limits, you need water and sewage connections. A new "Septic to Distributed System" method for new homes and small developments (50 homes per system) that do not have direct access to city sewage systems was discussed at yesterday's (Mar. 22, 2022) Lake County Board meeting. You can watch the tab 30 agenda item meeting video by going to the Lake County website, clicking and scrolling to about 1 hour, 55 minutes and watch it, plus you can click the agenda tab and scroll to tab 30 to see the agenda documents. This new system was solicited by the Lake County Board to reduce pressure for developers to annex into cities and approve HIGH-density homes to justify costs for city proviced sewer pipelines. Instead, they found a vendor ( http://www.onsyte.com/ ) that can provide small, stand-alone, more advanced community septic systems. They also had an earlier presentation by the vendor several months ago. They were the only ones to respond to a request for proposal. They are not discussing mandating these for older homes with septic tanks (at this time). Both Lake... Read more →

New Video: America Supports Ukraine Rally held on Mar. 1, 2022 in Tavares, FL

New Video: America Supports Ukraine Rally held on March 1, 2022 in Tavares, FL. The Lake County Board sponsored the rally for one hour with several speakers, including one Ukraine support group manager who had just returned from Ukraine. Great speakers. The video is on Rumble dot com because YouTube is censoring my videos. Vance Jochim Read more →

Katie Hopkins warns us to not get taken in by the Democrats' latest diversion to avoid discussing their screwups

Katie Hopkins from the UK, currently in Texas, advises us all to avoid the next "shiny, sparkly thing" crisis thrown at us by the Biden administration. I know these tricks as the next Saul Alinsky crisis to fill media and political speeches to avoid discussion of Biden and the Communists screwups on immigration, economy, inflation, energy security, etc. Vance Jochim Read more →

We interview Tom Vail about apparent manipulation of Florida Voter Registrations and Vote Counts

We interviewed Tom Vail, a vote integrity activist in Lake County, FL about evidence uncovered from analysis of Florida's 2020 elections vote dtabase (15-million voters) and suspicious trends found in voter registration data as well as mysterious appearance of Democrat and NPA registrations to match Republican counts. Then there was the database analysis showing ALL Florida addressses where more than 10 voters were registered, with some having 9000 or more registered voters to a single adddress. FAKE???? Read more →

Lake County, FL School Parents Alert: The School Board will review and approve several new math "instructional materials" (aka textbooks, etc.) on Feb. 28 - You need to comment

Lake County, FL School Parents Alert: The School Board will review and approve several new math "instructional materials" (aka textbooks, etc.) on Feb. 28 - You need to comment. Read more →

Texas Pediatrician rants about dangers of masks, Covid vaccines and lack of health improvement discussions - Debbie Georgatos show

Click HERE to see a Debbie Georgatos video interview on America Can We Talk of a 25-year Pediatrician, Dr. Angelina Farella, describing the DANGERS of masks, DANGERS of Covid vaccines and asking hard questions ike "why isn't anyone preaching good practices to BUILD immune systems, or good health to reduce OBESITY which is the main contributor to serious Covid Cases?" Debbie Georgatos is a well-known conservative vlogger in Texas who interviews many working professionals like doctors about the REAL FACTS related to issues like masks, Covid, election fraud, etc. Her main website is: https://americacanwetalk.org/. You will not support masks at all, or vaccines or the Biden regime's Covid rules after watching this America Can We Talk interview held by Debbie Georgatos on Sept. 15, 2021. https://rumble.com/vmmsft-dr.-angelina-farella-acwt-interview-9.15.21.html This is one of many sources I have gathered for my "Masks are dangerous.." webpage at: https://www.fiscalrangers.com/masks-are-dangerous-and-here-is-why.html By Vance Jochim - published Sept 17, 2021 Fiscalrangers.com [email protected] === Read more →

MASKS are Dangerous in our opinion and should not be mandated - FiscalRangers.com Factsheet

Contrary to advice of Dr. Anthony Faucie, the Biden Administration, WHO and the CDC, masks for students or adults are DANGEROUS in our opinion and we list the reasons and sources that you can use to make up your own mind. Read more →

Massive Trump Rally 7pm tonight, Aug. 21, 2021 in Alabama. RSBN Coverage has already started with crowd interviews.

Tune in early to get your seat. FREE. https://youtu.be/aSx-CtvLG5Y Read more →

Lake County, FL Parents rant at School Board over CRT and other issues

Yesterday, June 14, 2021, there was yelling and emotions by parents at the Lake County, FL School Board meeting about CRT (Critical Race Theory) being taught in at least one school and about retention of a teacher with a questionable background. Read more →

Our video of Col. Phil Waldron, cybersecurity and election fraud expert at Conservative Watch, USA Apr. 28, 2021

The video of the recent Conservative Watch USA-Villages April 28, 2021 meeting featuring Election fraud and cybersecurity expert Col Phil Waldron was uploaded at: https://youtu.be/AWq4f-3UKaM About the speaker, Col. Phil Waldron, Cybersecurity and Elections Integrity and fraud prevention expert: Colonel Phil Waldron(Retired) served in the US Army for 30 years and is a decorated combat veteran with extensive experience in Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Strategic Communications; Joint Information Operations; Cyber/Computer Network Operations; OPSEC; All -Source Intelligence Analysis; Unconventional Warfare and Operations Integration. He is most well known by the public for his recent testimony regarding the foreign and domestic interference in our election used by the Dominion Voting Machines that he presented at a hearing in front of the Arizona legislature defending President Donald J. Trump. Video by Vance Jochim of FiscalRangers.com Read more →

New Conservative Watch USA chapter launched at The Villages, FL - VIDEO

A new Sumter County, FL conservative political group, Conservative Watch USA - Villages Chapter, had a kickoff event with three great speakers. Here is the link to the full video. Event was March 24, 2021. https://youtu.be/z0zFS_NdC-Y The speakers were: Col. Douglas MacGregor - Defense & Foreign Policy Inside Story Anthony Sabatini​ - FL Legislation update Bev Kilmer​ - Education Update The meeting was led by: Suzanne Days​ Annie Marie Delgado​ Conservative Watch USA - The Villages​ ========================================================================= For other conservative issues, join us at FiscalRangers.com and our Facebook Group: FiscalRangersLakeCounty​ The video is about 2-hours long with three speakers. We had to leave the songs and music out due to YouTube policies. Vance Jochim FiscalRangers.com Read more →

Why Tavares, FL Taxpayers Don't get all the details on City Council decisions

The City of Tavares, Florida's City Council met yesterday, April 7, 2021. We describe how they are leaving important details related to Council decisions out of the online agenda packet, and they need to provide that online in the future. This is one of several Tavares practices that result in lower transparency than other Lake County, FL cities. Read more →

Masks Don't WORK in my opinion - This video explains a medical doctor's research

America's Frontline Doctors is composed of experienced medical doctors and researchers who provide FACTS about why masks are not safe and can be harmful. They oppose the Federal and Fauci recommendations to wear masks. Watch their video describing many sources of research which are eye-opening. You won't want to wear masks after watching this video. Read more →

The Big CPAC 2021 Conservative Conference is NOW in Orlando

I am covering it and have a press pass. (Feb. 26-28, 2021) I am posting pictures and some comments on my FiscalRangersLakeCounty GROUP. You can also view it live on RSBN HERE. More detailed posts will be posted there and here later in the first week of March, 2021. Read more →

Lake County Republicans: Register NOW for the annual CPAC Conference in Orlando, Feb. 25-28

The big, annual CPAC convention is coming to Orlando, FL this Feb. 25-28, 2021, so Republicans should register now before the cheaper tickets are sold out. Read more →

REDUCE YOUR Lake County, FL Property Taxes by 50% by buying property in a low tax Lake County city

Buyers of residential, rental or commercial property in Lake County, FL can SAVE 50% on property taxes if they pick the right, low millage rate city in Lake County. This article describes the 2020 millage rates for all 14 cities plus the unincorporated Lake County areas so you can decide to buy in a LOW or HIGH property tax location. Read more →

Caveat Emptor when buying a manufactured or mobile home in a Florida park where you pay lot rent

Owning a mobile home in Florida on leased or rented lots is dangerous and we describe some reasons why. The industry and the Florida legislators need to take action against mobile home park owners who are bullies and harass and threaten mobile home owners so they give up and leave so the park owner can take over the home and sell or rent it for a profit. Read more →

Lake County, FL Board to have final millage and budget hearing tomorrow, Sept. 29, 2020

The Lake County, FL Board is having the final State required meeting to approve millage rates and budgets which will result in higher property taxes due to higher valuations. We provide the meeting details and discuss the issue. Read more →

Mascotte, FL implements property tax rollback rate, but VALUATIONS went UP 25%

AAAGH!! Mascotte, FL City Council members, in Lake County, voted for the full millage rate rollback for property taxes. I was going to give them kudos for doing so. Then I read the details in their budget introduction. The property appraiser VALUATIONS leaped by 25%, thus the rollback was minuscule vs the TAX INCREASE that will be faced by Mascotte residents due to the very high valuations. So, they should have reduced their millage MORE than the rollback rate like Minneola did. Why aren't more Lake County taxpayers getting angry at all the local governments like cities and the County and School Board raking in the extra dollars due to high valuations, and some giving out 3% raises and not setting at least a rollback rate in this Pandemic economy? All the subsidies end by December, and then evictions and foreclosures will show just how out of touch the elected officials are. Taxpaying voters need to throw out incumbents if they voted to support anything other than rollback rates. Vance Jochim FiscalRangers.com Read more →

Is Your Lake County City FAILING to provide VIDEOS of tax decision meetings, hiding their decisions?

City Councils in Lake County, FL are RAISING taxes while claiming credit for reducing tax RATES. The problem is property valuations are leaping, and multiply them by barely reduced millage tax rates equals TAX INCREASES. We discuss this manipulation of public information by elected officials. Read more →

Trump Team 2020 Bus stops at Lake County, FL Republican HQ - Aug. 11, 2020

Watch the Trump Team 2020 bus arrive at the Lake County, FL Republican HQ and the dignitaries speak! Read more →

Don't Vote Early - Wait Until You See who mails out nasty mailers, then choose

Lake County Voters should delay their voting in the Lake County primary elections until closer to the final voting day. They need to do that to see if anyone sends out negative mailer hit pieces that may see unethical or inaccurate before finally deciding who to vote for. We point out two candidate races where negative mailers have already been mailed out, and who in our opinion "might" be advising them. Read more →

Clermont, FL Taxpayers protest City Council decisions and rampant development at City Hall

Citizens showed up at the Clermont City Hall on July 22, 2020 to wave signs and discuss issues with those passing by. Led by local Clermont watchdog Dani Page, the group waved signs for two hours. This is a 30 minute segment. Read more →

FL House District 31 Race Heats up - see our Republican updates here - Mt. Dora, FL and nearby

This is our post on the Florida House District 31 elections for 2020, with links to videos, candidate info, etc. District 31 is in the Mt. Dora area in Lake County, FL. Read more →

Orlando Sentinel's Scott Maxwell asks that voters monitor LOCAL elections as much as National elections

Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell encouraged taxpayers to attend local city council and other local agency meetings to monitor what they are doing, and also monitor who are the best candidates for their local government agencies. Here are my additional ideas for reform of City Councils and policies. Read more →

The non-profit domain name .org is being sold to a private equity firm controlled by apparent middle eastern managers

A South African equity capital firm may be buying the non-profit firm that controls .org internet domain addresses, which could lead to increased fees or censorship, since many leaders in the firm have Arabic names. Read more →

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis needs to fix his convoluted Appointments Process

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis needs to clean up the obtuse appointments process he inherited. I really believe it was carried from a prior Democrat and is a deep state operation to only let insiders get information on openings, criteria and appointments. Did Charlie Crist holdovers design this clutterd system? See my video and recommendations to clean up the process. Read more →

Our Review of the Oct. 30, 2019 Tavares, FL Comprehensive Plan 2040 Workshop - lots of Agenda 21 stuff!

The latest workshop of the Tavares, FL Comprehensive Plan 2040 Committee was held on Oct. 30, 2019.  This overview is based upon my fiscal conservative, reduced taxation philosophy.  We provide a link to a video of the meeting, the agenda, relevant documents, the Powerpoint and our opinion on the bias in the meeting. Tavares area property owners beware. Read more →

Confederate Statue Removal? Some states are outlawing it and other cities are leaving them

Democrats, in order to stir up racial division, have launched protests to remove Confederate statues across the country. However, instead of protests and either removing or keeping a statue, a third alternative, "Contextualizing" has evolved and this article describes how it is being implemented to address issues rather than the Democrat objective of stirring hate by destroying history. Read more →

The new Lake County 2019/2020 Property Tax TRIM Notices are Out - and you need to analyze them

The 2019-20 Lake County, FL property tax TRIM notices are out. We provide an example and some analysis, and tips how to analyze YOUR rates to understand if hidden increases are included. Read more →

Tavares, FL property owners should attend this budget workshop, or open your wallet for higher taxes

Tavares, FL residents need to read this about pending millage rate tax hikes at a City Council workshop on July 24, 2019 at 4pm. These issues of escalating taxes are affecting ALL city and county residents in Lake County and the rest of Florida. If you don't act now, then hold out your wallet for tax day. Read more →

Liberal Hyprocrites are facing a conundrum - should schools teach LGBTQ (which angers Muslims & others)

The UK columnist Katie Hopkins comments in this brief video on how Muslim parents are now demanding removal of class topics on LGBTQ issues. It is starting in Birmingham, UK and she suggest it will be a new Muslim demand that will spread to other UK schools. How soon before that conflict affects US schools and colleges? Read more →

North Carolina student quiz contains clear biased attack on President Trump

A North Carolina parent's student showed him a picture of a student quiz heavily biased against President Trump, and posted it with his comments. We share it hear, and suggest such biased classroom content should be prohibited within the mission statement of all school districts, including our local Lake County, FL School District. Read more →

White House creates website to report social media censorship - like Facebook Jail, Twitter shutoffs, etc

The White House has just created a site to report social media censorship, so I reported one example and it works, but is clunky. We include the White House link. Read more →

World's largest website platform, Wordpress.com, Shuts down Islam critic website, Creeping Sharia

Wordpress, the largest internet website platform, and their governing group, Automaticc.com, just shut down CreepingSharia.Wordpress.com, a conservative website critical of Islam. We provide the details and links. May 15, 2019 Read more →