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FiscalRangers.com Lake County, FL Voting Guide PLUS Tips to Ensure your Ballots & Votes are COUNTED!!

Tavares, FL - Nov. 1, 2012 Here are the FiscalRangers Lake County voting guide & recommendations, followed by tips to ensure your ballots or votes are not denied due to stupid voter mistakes (which are infrequent, but do happen). FiscalRangers.com Lake County Voting Recommendations (Cities not Included) By Vance Jochim Many offices were decided during the primaries, thus I don’t list them here. My bias is I mostly vote Republican and for candidates who are intelligent, create initiatives and exercise sound fiscal decisions. If you don’t have a sample ballot, go to this Lake County Elections page, select your precinct and print or download your specific sample ballot: http://elections.lakecountyfl.gov/sample_ballots/index.aspx President : Romney/Ryan – duh! Or did you forget that Obama ran the deficit up to $1-trillion per year, and the national debt up to $16-billion for your kids. Don't even get me started on all those Executive Orders or Obama failing to provide security, resulting in the murder of a US Ambassador in Libya. US Senator: Vote for Connie Mack, NOT Nelson. Democrat Nelson voted like Obama and is part of the problem we have with the economy. US Representative – District 10: Vote for incumbent Daniel Webster (not Deming).... Read more →

What is a Florida Millage Tax? A Tax RATE on Private Property like Residences, Commercial Buildings, etc

Here is a great article explaining what a millage tax is, also known as a property tax in Florida. http://www.floridapoliticalpress.com/2012/10/30/what-is-a-millage-tax/ What is a Millage Tax - from Florida Political Press - Written for Seminole County (FL) property owners By Ed Ghiglieri (TIP: First, Florida residents and home or commercial property owners, get out your house's property tax TRIM Notice from your County Property Appraiser (estimates of pending millage rates and property values for the coming tax year) OR your most recent actual Property Tax Bill (from the Tax Collector). Both is better. Millage rates don't affect renters except that the tax WILL be included in the house or business building rent you pay to the owner. If the local city, county or government agency increases a millage rate, your rent will probably go up.) Recently the Seminole County School Board proposed “up to a 1 mill” increase on property taxes in Seminole County to increase the school revenues. In talking to residents, homeowners, business owners and renters of all types there is some confusion of what a millage tax is. I have been told from some people that it’s a mileage tax on your cars and it’s used for road... Read more →

EPA Delays Excessive Regulations Until AFTER Election Day so Obama Doesn't Look Bad

Tavares, FL - Oct. 24, 2012 The Federal EPA is delaying onerous new, costly water & other regulations until the END of November, AFTER elections, so voters don't find out. Water and sewer bills could increase by $700 per year, according the the analysis below. Here is another reason why we can't afford Obama or his EPA. From Andy Dubois, President of the North Lake Tea Party (FL) and the Tri-County Association - a group fighting excess environmental restrictions like the recent septic tank inspection regulations. Vance J. =========================================================================== Subject: Editorial - The Sludge Report - “The Domino Effect” - EPA rules have been postponed until after the election Vance, important FiscalRanger posting - Why has the Obama-EPA postponed implementing crushing rules until after the November 6th election? Andy Dubois http://www.thesludgereport.org/reports/sludgereport-10-22-2012.html http://www.tricountyassociation.org/ Report for 10-22-2012 By Andrea Samson President, Tri-County Association – Health Environment Legislation Policies (H.E.L.P.) The Domino Effect We are all about to get blindsided! It’s not rocket science. It’s simple cause and effect. The EPA has postponed until after the election implementing rules that will literally crush us….not an overstatement. Economically devastating is the only way to describe the impact of those rules on families, local and... Read more →

Voter Fraud Alert: VA Democrat Rep's son & Field Director Explains How to Submit Fraudulent Votes

Voter Fraud Alert: Project Veritas video of Virginia Democratic Congressman's son & PAID campaign Field Director telling how to submit fraudulent votes... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT77qP2Nai8 Thanks to Project Veritas for uncovering these - about one a week now. Vance Read more →

Video of Why Christian Churches are Avoiding Discussion of Islam Activities

Central Florida - Oct. 22, 2012 Before the 3rd Presidential Debate, I attended a meeting to hear a speaker on judicial activisim. Unfortunately the speaker's airplane had problems and he could not make it. So they asked a local pastor to talk about why Christian Churches are avoiding discussions of Islam. I videotaped the talk. Here it is below - very good oversight, and issues explained with some preaching thrown in. Points to consider. There were about 200 people attending and they constantly clapped at the points he made. "God loves everyone, but Islam hates many..." he pointed out. He also made some other points: Christianity focuses on goodwill, Islam focuses on hate and violence (killing infidels, stoning, lying to non-believers, resistance to the US First Amendment when they are verbally attacked while using those rights to attack other religions, committing violence or inciting assassination when someone exercises free speech). People of faith should watch this speech which runs 36 minutes. The speaker, who is a pastor at a Church, charges that many Christian Churches are "asleep". He will soon depart for Papua New Guinea to lead a Christian effort to convert Muslims to Christianity in Indonesia. "The media doesn't... Read more →

Smackdown Debate between FL Senate Candidates - Republican Connie Mack VS Liberal Bill Nelson

Tavares, FL - Oct. 19, 2012 The only public debate between Republican Connie Mack and Liberal Bill Nelson was on TV two days ago. Just in case you wonder, we are biased towards Mack. Here is the link to the 1 hour, 24 minute full debate - the moderator held the speakers to a strict 1:15 minute limit. TV stations only gave them 60 minutes of air time, but the link below is the full 1 hour 24 minutes of the debate . However, after the first hour ends, and after the intermissions (move the slider forward to the last off air segment at 59 minutes), they repeat earlier segments, so you are not missing anything after 59 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpDF1TwCDxI& This complements yesterday's visit to Lake County's Republican Headquarters in Tavares. Here are my observations: -This is good to watch at least 30 minutes to get a perspective on the two candidates, but many of Nelson's lines come directly from the Obama camp. - Nelson speaks very slowly, maybe to prevent making mistakes, or because his mental processes are slowing due to age (and I am 67). But Mack is a quick speaker, and if you pick someone on perceived... Read more →

How 1938 Austria Became a Socialist, Nazi Country in Five Years

My older sister sent me this - a first person narrative by a woman now living in the US who was a kid in 1938 Austria and witnessed how the Austrians were conned by Hitler to vote him into power, and how he turned them into socialists in five years. A lesson for America today. 1938 Austria Kitty Werthmann is 85 years old. America truly is the Greatest Country in the World. By: Kitty Werthmann What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books. I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they... Read more →

Videos of Panel Discussion on Agenda 21 at Oct. 12 Meeting of South Lake County (FL) 912 Tea Party

Clermont, FL - Oct. 14, 2012 The South Lake County (FL) 912 Tea Party hosted a presentation and panel discussion on Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development programs harming Property Rights. For detailed background info on Agenda 21, see our FiscalRangers White Paper at www.tinyurl.com/HaltAgenda21 Part 1 Video - Dan Petersen from Coalition on Property Rights The meeting included a 20 minute overview of Agenda 21 by Dan Petersen from the Orlando based Coalition on Property Rights. Agenda 21 affects many areas of US freedoms and property rights is just one area. Petersen's overview is normally 90 minutes, so much of it was skipped (unfortunately - but I have seen it). HOWEVER, FiscalRangers.com previously taped his longer presentation, and it is HERE. Part 2 Video - A panel of three local elected officials discussing Agenda 21. - FL Senator Alan Hays read text from a bill he is initiating with others to ban Agenda 21 practices in Florida. He admitted the wording could change before he files it, that others may file similar bills, and then wording could change in the early 2013 FL legislative session when bills are considered. His hope was to implement a bill similar to one already... Read more →

Voter Fraud Alert: Broward County Purges 5,000 dead voters & Republican Party finds 450 more

Tavares, FL - Lake County - Oct. 11, 2012 This "killer" video below is from Florida Watchdog and includes a series of questions from a TV reporter about how Broward County has dead people on the voter rolls, etc and the Supt of Elections says it is not her job to investigate, but the State Elections department says she can initiate her OWN investigation. Scott avoids a question about whether the Supt. of Elections should investigate, but says they are elected officials and the local voters can decide if she is doing her job. Then on the same video is a interview with Congresswoman Ileana Ro-Lehtinen who also says voter ID is good and people should not be objecting to efforts to ensure voter rolls are up to date and accurate, and that only valid voters are voting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okdj143DbRw&feature=player_embedded#! ==================================================================== Broward County Republicans Investigate and find hundreds of dead people still on county voter rolls, and over 5,000 were purged from rolls: HERE are articles about how Broward County purged 5,000 dead people from voter rolls, and then the Republican Party found 480 more to remove. In comparison, in Lake County, no such public report has been issued on voter... Read more →

Factors in Successful Applications for New Florida Charter School Approvals

Tavares, FL - Oct. 11, 2012 Florida has regulations that provide incentives to create charter schools, and most School Boards are seeing charter school applications increase. The proponents of a new charter school must apply to the local Countywide School Boards for approvals. In Lake County, FL, we have several "conversion" charter schools, where existing County schools convert to Charter schools, and we have several other schools run by external groups. The Lake County School Board gets 2-3 applications for new charter schools each year, but most of them are incomplete and end up not going anywhere. This article about a wave of Charter School applications in Duvall County, FL (Jacksonville area) indicates some unique reasons for charter school applications: - Counties with POOR school rankings are a target for new charter schools since the parents are more easily convinced that alternative schools are needed. - Counties without poor rankings, like St. John's County, rarely see charter school applications and local parents reject them because the local public schools are highly ranked and respected. Thus the big lesson for school district staff and officials is that if you get the school rankings up, there is less public support for charter... Read more →

Voter Fraud Alert: Undercover Video of Obama Campaign Office Advising How to Vote in More than One State

Tavares, FL - Oct. 10, 2012 Voter Fraud Alert: Texas office of Obama campaign group Organize for America Provides Advice to undercover videographer on how to vote twice - once in Florida, once in another state. James O’Keefe is the undercover videographer who exposed ACORN with the undercover videos of them telling a pimp and prostitute how to avoid taxes. One of his other operatives conducted this video investigation. His group, Project Veritas, posts many similar undercover videos on his YouTube channel which can be seen below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_iJfnbMzI0&feature=share Once again, Democrats and Obama supporters demonstrate a willingness to implement voter fraud to get the candidate elected. What is interesting is that I was in the REC office recently and a man came in and asked similar questions. When I told him to call the Elections Office to get his answers, he wasn’t very happy that I wasn’t giving him an idea how to “Handle” voting in Florida when he lived in NC and had an NC driver’s license and was not registered in FL because his voting registration in Florida had “expired”. Vance Jochim Lake County Fiscal Rangers Chief Fiscal Watchdog Volunteers Searching for Ways to Improve Local Government Fiscal... Read more →

Voter Fraud Update: Pascoe, FL County Allows Dems to Register Students but not Republicans

Tavares, FL - Oct. 8, 2012 Democrat Voter Registration Dirty Tricks: Pascoe County, FL schools let Democrats register students to vote without any balanced presentations ... gee, I wonder which teacher's union they have. The let Obama supporting "Organize for Tomorrow" representatives into the schools, some who said they were from the elections office. One gave Pro-Obama speeches to several high schools. Here in Lake County, FL, the Democrat Supt. of Elections visits all High schools annually to register new 18 year olds. We don't know if the political party is filled out for them on the registration slips like in some Pascoe County schools. I have asked Lake County school leaders if they let political speakers talk to students, and at least at the Administration level, they say no. However, Lake County school Principals are very independent, so if any reader knows of such instances, please contact us. http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/school-lets-dems-register-students-to-vote-but-not-gop.html Vance Jochim Read more →

Florida Voter Fraud Update - Thousands of Florida Voters also Registered in NY, Ohio & Rhode Island

Tavares, FL - Oct. 8, 2012 Florida Voter Fraud Update: Thousands of registered voters in Ohio, New York and Rhode Island are also voting in Florida, according to this research from TrueTheVote.com . This is a continuation of an earlier study showing duplicate Florida and New York registrations. And, it is important to note that the New York duplicate registrations are based on only a ONE percent sample of New York registered voters. This is possible because the STATE Elections departments and County Elections Superintendents have never setup a combined database of all voters to detect duplicate registrations in two or more states, but True the Vote HAS done this. Read the excerpt below and the details at the linked article, which contains statistics on duplications of Florida voters with Ohio, New York and Rhode Island. When we asked our local Lake County Elections Superintendent, Emogene Stegall, what her department did to prevent double voting between states, she said there was no database to compare voters between states, so she has no program to detect double voters voting in Florida and another state. That is why we need a new elections Superintendent in Lake County, someone who understands computer database... Read more →

Florida Voter Manipulation Games Practiced by Obama Campaign Group

Tavares, FL - Oct. 4, 2012 According to Breitbart.com, here is a new dirty trick being pulled in Pasco County, FL to dilute Republican votes by an Obama campaign organization, Organizing for America. They are sending Robocalls to Republican voters telling them incorrect, earlier dates for early voting. And according to the Tampa Bay Times: "Pasco County Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley is warning voters about potentially misleading early voting information after his office received hundreds of inquiries from voters Tuesday wanting to cast early ballots.Early voting in Florida doesn't begin until Oct. 27 and lasts through Nov. 3. Corley traced one of the complaints to a robocall from Organizing for America, an arm of the Democratic Party." This is an attempt to wear people out if they trek to the polling locations and find they can't vote. Or, it could be a test for the real plan, which is to tell selected voters not to vote until Nov. 8th. Watch for it and be wary. Confirm any such calls by NOT using any phone number or website given to you by such calls, but look them up independently and call to confirm what you were told. If any of... Read more →

Lake County School District Lunch Food Waste Problem Reported by Huffington Post, NBC & Dennis Miller

Tavares, FL - Oct. 3, 2012 MORE on the Lake County School District lunch waste program. We wrote two blog entries on it, and the Orlando Sentinel wrote an article, then the Huffington Post reported it, then today NBC reported it and last night Dennis Miller talked about it. Get the scoop. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/03/14199709-florida-school-district-considers-trash-cams-in-lunchrooms-to-study-wasted-food?lite If you missed our earlier posting on this issue, here it is: http://webworks.typepad.com/lakecountyfiscalrangers/2012/10/lake-county-school-lunch-programs-fail-to-track-waste-food-thrown-out.html Note: This issue is not about the School District wasting food, but about Michelle Obama's school lunch program rules to from a Federal funding mandate that each kid gets a fruit and vegetable, and reduced calorie counts. Many kids are throwing out that food and wasting it, but the staff of the Lake County school district is hesitant to spend the staff time to MEASURE the amount of waste so policy makers know the cost of the mandates. Our opinion is they could at least do a sampling program and contact local Federal legislators and request modification of the mandates. Vance Jochim Lake County Fiscal Rangers Chief Fiscal Watchdog Volunteers Searching for Ways to Improve Local Government Fiscal Management, Efficiency & Effectiveness PO Box 1042 Tavares, FL 32778 Mobile: 352-638-3578 [email protected] www.FiscalRangers.com TWITTER: @FiscalRangers... Read more →

Online Petition Started for Florida Property Rights & Anti-Agenda 21 Bill & We Analyze It

Tavares, FL (Lake County) - Oct. 3, 2012 (This article was first distributed to the FiscalRangers.com email list). A proposed Florida legislative bill draft is being circulated by a group fighting government property rights transgressions in Florida, and they have started an online petition to be submitted to Senator Don Gaetz. It is similar to one passed by the Alabama legislators recently which is already being enforced. Here is a June 20 article on the bill by Florida Senate President-designate Don Gaetz (“ to strongly reject United Nations Agenda 21…”) http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/don-gaetz-expect-anti-un-agenda-21-2013 Agenda 21, initiated by the UN and implemented by the American Planner’s Association, is most known for rolling out extreme restrictions on private property, which reduces uses, values and freedoms protected by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. A simple example is implementation of land use restrictions in many counties so that the owner could not develop property for business, residential or other uses due to environmental objectives. The result to many is a “taking” of property values without “just compensation”. My FiscalRangers.com blog has published a white paper on Agenda 21 dangers at www.tinyurl.com/HaltAgenda21 . Go there if you want more background, watch various videos or read... Read more →

British Government Bidding Fiasco Provides Lessons for All Government Staff & Officials

British government staff screwed up the bidding process so much for operating a privatized train line that several leaders and staff were fired and the government had to repay four bidders about $60-million in bidding costs they lost. England has privatized their rail system and recently held high stakes bidding for the firm that would operate a major west coast line. Apparently, Richard Branson's Virgin Brand was running it at the time and but lost the contract bidding to renew their operations contract. Branson filed a protest citing problems with the way the bid ranking was calculated, and it turned out he was right. Apparently the method used to score winning bids was faulty and didn't include factors for inflation and accurate methods of forecasting growth in rail traffic. It was so bad that several staff and leaders were fired. A quote in one article said the government needs to get procurement specialists at the same level as the business world. This brings me to recite my mantra - the public deserves the same quality management in government agencies as used in major corporations, and doesn't always get it. That is why it is imperative to elect officials with large... Read more →

Lake County Lunch Progam Waste Issue Hits Huffington Post & We Get a Response

Tavares, FL - Oct. 2, 2012 Yup – Lake County is in the big time now… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/florida-school-leaders-mu_n_1930447.html?utm_hp_ref=food&ir=Food Also, there are some good videos about school lunch programs on that page. Here is a video on comedian Jon Stewart’s take on Michelle Obama’s school lunch programs. Watch the video or read the text. “Kids are throwing out twice as much food as last year…” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/28/school-lunch-fight-jon-st_n_1922703.html “That's where students across the country are waging war against the first lady. Teens from Kansas to Wisconsin have staged protests against the new school lunches, launching Twitter campaigns, boycotting cafeteria meals and filming videos in hopes of bringing widespread attention to their cause: the new rules are too restrictive, leaving kids hungry. Growing adolescents, teens say, require more calories because they're burning more through sports and other activities.” A written response was received to our earlier post on the Lake County School lunched where we stated that there didn’t seem to be much interest in measuring the amount of waste : The earlier post was here: http://webworks.typepad.com/lakecountyfiscalrangers/2012/10/lake-county-school-lunch-programs-fail-to-track-waste-food-thrown-out.html Here is the response from the head of the School Lunch program Gary Dodds – notice he states one of the factors, which is the Federal government MANDATES... Read more →

Lake County School Lunch Programs Fail to Track Waste & Food Thrown Out

Tavares, FL - Oct. 1, 2012 The Lake County School District Board recently received an annual update on School Lunch programs from the head of the school food programs, Gary Dodds. Most of the food is for kids who get free lunch funded by Federal funds. However, Michelle Obama pushed through a "healthy foods" initiatives which among other things, mandates that each kids MUST be GIVEN fruit and vegetables, even if they don't want it, and the kids throw the food out. Dodds doesn't want to measure the waste. Why is it that government won't measure waste or allocate enough funds to track waste AND take action to fix it? You can read today's Orlando Sentinel article about the School food program presentation and Board discussions about food that the kids are throwing out. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-school-food-waste-20120930,0,1993800.story Here are my comments submitted online below the article: I attended the Lake County Board meeting where this was brought up, just like a year ago, when Gary Dodds gave his annual update on school food. As a taxpayer, I am aggravated at Dodd's ambivalence over tracking wasted food - it could be done on a sampling basis either by weighing and counting trash cans... Read more →