This YouTube video by Mario Nappa is very well done and illustrated showing how a City Council like Leesburg keeps approving expanded housing and commercial without fixing the traffic gridlock first. Watch it to understand how stupid city councils keep approving developments without fixing traffic congestion first. https://youtu.be/6--ZaYWm2JQ?si=wK64uSnEUr01Raor Vance Jochim Continue reading

We all need to start 2025 with some humor, so check the LeesburgNews.com article (linked below) on an altercation between a Lake County, FL Wendy's drive-through customer and a Wendy's employee at the drive-through window. In college, we called this a food fight. One lesson is if you throw drinks at anyone, and they call the police, you could end up getting arrested, having your picture published in the newspaper and having to pay a $6000 bond to get out. Read, and learn...but no one was hurt. https://www.leesburg-news.com/2024/12/31/wendys-employee-allegedly-punches-customer-after-confrontation-at-drive-thru-window/? Vance Jochim Continue reading

This is a link to a personal experience reference page I wrote on reducing weight, avoiding Covid using YouTube influencer videos, and moving to a keto diet and intermittent fasting. Continue reading

This long article includes an overview why Lake County, FL Property Appraiser lost his position due to dirty tricks by a Dirty Tricks Cabal setup by David Jordan, Tax Collector, and Mark Jordan, his brother. The main article is written by Tom Vail, with many personal opinions and comments by FiscalRangers.com editor Vance Jochim. Continue reading

This article gives a great, detailed overview of states moving to encourage residents in mobile home parks to create a co-op group to buy out the park owner and create a co-op owned by all the residents. I have written about how good they are, and recommend potential mobile home owners to buy in those parks, not leased land parks. https://dailymontanan.com/2024/11/24/to-save-affordable-housing-states-promote-resident-owned-mobile-home-parks/ Continue reading

How to join RFK's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement Continue reading

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. Continue reading

Harris County, TX District Attorney Kim Ogg announced criminal charges Monday against five people accused of participating in a teacher-certification cheating scheme that allowed unqualified teachers to work in local school districts. Continue reading

Since my first name is Vance, I approve his performance. Walz kept looking like he was ready to cry. I watched the debate on the Rumble channel for Louder with Crowder where they gave a play by play review, and then after the debate, presented a SIX page list of VERIFIED fact checks on what Walz said. Hilarious. Continue reading

Advocates for the FL ballot item Amendment 4 (abortion) got the ballot item certified earlier this year to be on the Nov. ballot. But now Gov. Ron DeSantis's Election Crimes group is asking several SOEs for copies of petitions signed by voters to support the Amendment 4 being on the ballot. Continue reading

We have updated our Florida Mobile Home Buyers guide to warn potential buyers of Florida legal loopholes that allow unethical owners of mobile home parks to screw over elderly, retired, and veteran homeowners by forcing them out of their homes without compensation. Continue reading

Laura Loomer, political commentator and former Lake County, FL candidate for Congress published an expose of how Kamala Harris voters are paying social media influencers $150 for each NICE post about Kamala. And, without explaining that, the mainstream media are claiming Kamala has more social media followers than Trump. Laura is in the picture on the right during a Lake County, FL Republican Party parade event. On the left is past president of the Republicans, Walter Price. Loomer corrects all of that in her Loomer.locals.com article HERE! Visit her X channel or the above linked Locals channel to get all of her investigative stories about the Presidential 2024 elections. Vance Continue reading

The August 20, 2024 Lake County, FL election primaries for mostly Republicans are over. I describe my opinion on the results and provide links to my earlier voter guide recommendations and the official results on the Lake County, FL Supt. of Elections website. The cartoon is AI generated and had BAD spelling. Continue reading

We Have Updated Our Republican Voter Guide for Lake County, FL as of August 8, 2024. Find it under "Elections" in the right column of FiscalRangers.com, or go to: https://www.fiscalrangers.com/elections-2024-lake-county-fl.html We have included more coverage of judges and some updates. More updates will be included by August 15, 2024. Vance Jochim Continue reading

Tom Vail, who we endorse, is running for the Lake County FL Superintendant of Elections and this is his list of endorsements so far. Continue reading

WATCH our Lake County, FL area REPUBLICAN election candidate interview videos at the links we include, PLUS visit our FiscalRangers.com Voter Guide for Lake County area election candidates. Continue reading

We will update this page below through the end of July. It is under "Elections" in the right column of this blog. https://www.fiscalrangers.com/elections-2024-lake-county-fl.html You can use it to find video links to many candidates we interviewed and find our (FiscalRangers.com or Vance Jochim's) recommendations for candidates. Check it out and bookmark it for when you are ready to vote for Lake County, FL area 2024 Election candidates. Vance Jochim https://www.fiscalrangers.com/elections-2024-lake-county-fl.html Continue reading

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. Continue reading

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. Continue reading

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. Continue reading

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. Continue reading

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. Continue reading

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... Continue reading