Blaise Ingoglia

Right.

And then the, the, the flip side of that is, you know, uh, Ron DeSantis and his, um, his sort of appointed chief financial officer, Blaise Ingoglia, who's now running for election for a full term, they've had, like, more than a year in which they've been, like, gallivanting around the state claiming to be find- uh, claiming to be auditing local governments and finding, like, examples-

Yep

... of, of wasteful spending, except they've completely failed at that task.

What they find is they find stuff they don't like, but it tends to be like, for instance, uh, Blaise Ingoglia came to, like, Orlando, and it was s- one of the things he highlighted was something like, uh, the, the, uh, the exact number's wrong, but the, this is spiritually right, like $6,000 for a poet laureate, right? Like, as a, as an example of the bloat in the city of Orlando budget.

And when you, when you sort of like set aside the fact that, like, uh, you know, paying a poet laureate isn't, isn't waste or fraud, it's just that you might not like it, but that's just-

You just don't like art.

So this is, this is a, this is, um, a campaign to essentially hide information from voters right as they go to the polls.

And while we're here talking about some of these last-minute shenanigans, there are a couple of others that I wanted to address that I don't think we've talked about on the podcast before.

And one is I alluded at the top to one of the stories we had – We've written one of the election stories we've written this year involves Blazing Golia, who is another one of our statewide elected officials.

He's the chief financial officer, never elected to the job.

Another guy who was appointed into the position by Governor Ron DeSantis because the previous incumbent stepped down and ran to run for Congress.

Uh, so pop quiz.

Does anybody even know who's running for like CFO? There's someone out there that is running against Blaise Ingoglia.

Blaise Ingoglia is the CFO.

He was also appointed, uh, by Ron DeSantis when the, uh, previous CFO went, uh, and ran for Congress.

I'll tell you what, I've...

She's got plenty to say about these last few weeks before election day.

Also, the CFO of Florida, Blaise Ingoglia.

Yes.

Talk about the cleanup efforts after the hurricane hit the Panhandle.

Uh, and, uh, we all lost our power here on and off for about an hour or so, and we all acted like the sky was falling.

Uh, the- they're made of different stuff down there in Florida when they've got hurricane season on their back porch.

Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia joins us now to talk about, uh, how Florida is coping with the aftermath and the cleanup.

Uh, sir, thanks for carving out some time for us.

Yeah, I mean, you could talk about that.

Uh, Blaise Ingoglia and, uh, Annette Tad- Tadeo, she's a Democrat.

Both former state senators.

Ingoglia was, uh, appointed to be CFO last year.

I mean, to be honest with you, the three guys that, that went before the invasion and how that all unfolded, that, that, that could be an interesting story.

We come back, the CFO for the state of Florida, Blaise Ingoglia, joins us next.

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Well, it's not exactly Operation Storm Watch, but there is now a hurricane out there, and, uh, joining us to talk about the storm and its impact potential on the western part of the state from the Big Bend to the Panhandle is State CFO Blaise Ingoglia.

Uh, Mr. CFO, how are you today?