Fiscal Rangers

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 →