Over the past few weeks, a series of communications between the rightfully outraged chairman of the Seminole County Commission and the state’s unelected chief financial officer have pulled back the curtains on the state’s DOGE-and-pony show.

It’s a financial sham, based on shaky numbers that never held up, and justifications that the state accepts as valid in one county but wholly ignores in the county next door. Despite that reality, this entire sorry episode carries a real risk: That Floridians will remember Blaise Ingoglia’s allegations last month of wasteful spending in local budgets across the state, without understanding how budget figures were manipulated to produce the big, round numbers printed on accusatory signs.

That’s exactly what Ingoglia and Gov. Ron DeSantis (who appointe

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