Orange County Tax Collector: David Freeman and Scott Randolph

[@berviffy30]

I live in orlando, district 9, why are they not on my sample ballot?

[@natheaeyaacarter1123]

The Official Primary Election ballot has them on it. For the Property Appraiser race Kevin Pribell dropped out which leaves Amy Mercado. Wishing you a great evening. 🤩

[@honestone490]

Just vote for Scott Randolph when you see his name on the ballot. If you saw the interview here with the Sentinel it wasn't exactly seeing Mr. Randolph in the best possible light. Yet he's still the only qualified candidate running.

[@natheaeyaacarter1123]

@@honestone490 I agree with you but I did have cause for concern. Him closing a dmv that I used to use so private DMVs could open up. I still would like more information on that. That's not working for the people in my eyes

[@honestone490]

Congratulations to Scott Randolph on his successful Election Victory today. Scott Randolph *(D) 59,184 86% David Nelson Freeman (D) 9,679 14%

[@myd0gr3x]

enforcing property taxes on private property is a felony 👈

[@honestone490]

It's impossible to think that the Orlando Sentinel moderators thought that with this interview between these two candidates it wasn't going to turn into a full blown drag down out shouting match. If they didn't see that coming, they were obviously just kidding themselves.32:07 This wasn't an interview or even a debate by normal political standards. It was instead an embarrassment for all parties involved including the newspaper.8:27 I especially blame the 12 year incumbent Scott Randolph for allowing this all to happen here by not acting more professional and frequently losing his cool likely on and frequently off camera too 27:48. He should've known better than to lower himself down to the level of his opponent. 31:55 However, each of them acted like children and were given equal access time to throw mud around at each other. 22:54 However, the moderators who needed to have intervened earlier 6:41 like a disciplining parent instead simply sat still rolling their eyes about eventually reaching for the mute button for both candidates but often when it was way too late.24:16 However, putting all of that aside some important useful points were actually brought up if you can stick with this video right up until the very end. Scott Randolph is not like your greedy bank out there he's not out to steal your home from a default with your property taxes. He's done a lot to try and prevent tax deed sales 14:03 Scott Randolph since taking over for his predecessor Earl K Wood has made significant major improvements in efficiency in the tax collector's office and the DMV over the last 12 years. Just try to imagine if you can what it was like before Mr. Randolph eventually took over for the legendary Mr. Wood. Earl K Wood stayed in as the tax collector for over 50 years right up until his sad passing in 2012 at the ripe old age of 96. Wood ran the office like it was still 1962 for all these years and technology to say the least was something he definitely frowned upon. You expected to wait just like Mr. Randolph said 3 hours to get your drivers license card renewed or even tag sticker for your current vehicle license plate. Appointments didn't exist and it was very much like entering a building made up of employees moving around like the walking dead. I'm actually very serious here it was that bad. 4:48 Fast forward now to 2024 and it makes a world of a difference comparable to that of Night and Day. Wait time in line with appointments is really only around 15 minutes.5:31 Much of that attributed to the management style and expertise of one Scott Randolph. 5:01 Orange County definitely owes him truly a debt of gratitude. However, putting all of that aside. Any suggestion of impropriety which is what David Freeman is making is not something you simply laugh off or claim as nothing more than your opponent crying sour grapes. It should be investigated or at least further researched and discussed. 22:43 28:17 You would think it would be easy enough to look up whether Randolph indeed has a $100,000 campaign war chest and how much of that money indeed comes from Comcast masked instead as a different entity. 16:36 17:01 I tend to agree with the current incumbent that the controversial public tag agencies closed were likely a part of a county wide consolidation of local offices. Insuring offices closed also had replacements available that where only15 minutes away or shorter driving time from the offices that were previously open.9:11 However did Mr. Randolph accept money from these 3 private tag agencies he allowed to open near the closed Apopka public offices and did it result in some type of kick back money paid to him directly. 6:11 17:33 18:50 Personally, I don't know and he didn't seem to want to answer that question directly either. 19:27 However, granted the person making the accusation is David Freeman. Mr. Freeman doesn't appear to be any more of a credible source to listen to versus what Mr. Randolph has to say here. In fact, Mr. Freeman sounds like he may have his own fair share of skeletons in the closet he doesn't want to talk about either.22:10 Consequently, it looks like both men are mainly addressing accusations in this video based mostly on here-say and implied innuendo. I'm at a loss for now to come to any logical conclusions here as too many questions are still left unanswered as to what really happened here. So I guess you take all of this knowledge at least for now, and take it for what it's worth. However, the bottom line is still that historically Scott Randolph has been a very competent office holder. He's been steadfastly advancing positive changes especially in the DMV office for these last 12 years. On the other hand, it seems Mr. Freeman is more interested in simply ousting Mr. Randolph than he is in wanting to aggressively reform the current tax office to date.26:36 29:39 30:46 The sad fact of the matter is that I'm not even sure that Mr. Freeman even knows the difference between what a Property Appraiser is supposed to do versus the duties for of the Tax Collector which is the office he's actually running for. 23:41 Just being honest here. Ordinarily I would enthusiastically endorse Scott Randolph for another term without question. However, now with some clouds of uncertainty hanging over his head and still without a more credible candidate to run against him, he obviously remains our only choice . Personally speaking for at least the time being, I really don't have a serious problem with that. After all, consider the alternative choice we have here with that being the under- experienced. controversial and flamboyant style of David Freeman as demonstrated here in this interview.

[@donnieb9005]

I've been going through these & your comments are always insightful. Thank you for your public service!

[@honestone490]

@@donnieb9005 Thank You very much for your kind words.