“Check the numbers. Because they are fictitious. Made up. Phony. False.”

Broward County Democratic County Commissioner Steven Geller blasting Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia’s recent audits of county spending, a central feature of Ingoglia’s newly rebranded Florida Agency for Fiscal Oversight. Geller accused the office of using faulty math to claim Broward County wasted $189 million over five years. Speaking at the Florida Association of Counties’ 2025 legislative meeting, Geller dismissed the findings as politically driven and echoed concerns raised by other county officials who say the audits are more about generating headlines ahead of Ingoglia’s re-election bid than genuinely improving fiscal oversight. (Florida Phoenix)