More mirrored signs for Mayor Muscles in Miami Lakes?

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Well, at least one more sign.

No sooner had I published the post about the mirrored campaign sign for Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi‘s re-election campaign than — wham — I get a photo of another peculiar get-out-the-vote tactic taken from Hialeah politics.

This one, to the left, is sent by an alert reader and is on the corner of 60th Avenue and Northwest 154th, from what I am told, in front of a Marathon gas station, as you can see.

Pizzi told me over the weekend when I published the first post about the first, uh, post, that he didn’t know anything about the sign Ladra spotted at the corner of 154th and 79th Avenue, in front of the Royal Oaks shopping plaza, in the photo below.

Last year, mirrors pasted onto the campaign yard signs of Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez and Council President Isis “Gavelgirl” Garcia-Martinez (follow her @isisgmartinez67) in what many said was a known santeria gesture to ward off any “evil eye,” which, let’s face it, sounds plausible. In the 305, where people run secret campaigns for plandidates and pornography aficionados run for office, it is not such a stretch to think that politicians desperate to keep their seats would turn to a higher authority. Or several.

Mayor Muscles told Ladra on Saturday that he knew nothing about the mirrored signs. “Maybe it’s someone trying to help me,” he said. Help you a lot, it looks like. And maybe you shouldn’t have chuckled when you heard about the Hialeah mirrored signs, like you told me you had when I reminded you the “significance” of the mirrors.  “I thought it was the funniest thing,” Pizzi told me about his reaction when he read the story about Hialeah campaign signs last fall.

A word of advice, or, four, as it were: Don’t laugh at Chango.

Heck, it’s not necessarily a bad idea, even. I say we propose a despojo on Tallahassee on Nov. 20. No, that is not a typo. Not just Capitol Hill. All of Tallahassee. Again, it can’t hurt.

Maybe Pizzi — who is a known getting-closer-every-day kind of ally with Hernandez — didn’t think it was a bad idea, either. His signs are nicer, though. Full frame mirrored borders. The Lakes version.

Because, while this may be (again) yet another sign (Ladra loves a good pun when she sees one) that — at least in terms of politics — Miami Lakes is, indeed, becoming Hialeah North, it’s still not Hialeah.