Missing from the long list of electeds who are hosting Former Gov. Jeb Bush at a breakfast Monday 
morning in Hialeah: Mayor Carlos Hernandez.
Was he snubbed because he’s an admitted loanshark?
Hernandez isn’t on the host committee list. Could be because he hasn’t come out publicly for any candidate yet, as far as Ladra can tell. But it could also be because he admitted last year, during former Mayor Julio Robaina‘s tax evasion trial, to having charged an illegal 36% interest on a personal loan. He must have gotten a deal for his testimony because he’s never been charged.
But you can bet it would have still been in the national news cycle for three days had Jeb! posed for selfies with the self-confessed loanshark.
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Maybe the mayor will be there anyway, just not on the paper. After all, his allies and members of his Seguro Que Yes City Council are among the many electeds who are listed as hosts for the breakfast with Bush at Chico’s Restaurant, which is like Versailles North.
Is this supposed to be a response to the very successful hometown breakfast that Sen. Marco Rubio, the other local GOP presidential wannabe, had earlier this month in West Miami? 
I guess Jeb couldn’t really have such a homey feel in his real hometown of Coral Gables and I suspect he does not have enough support among electeds in Miami to have it at the real Versailles.
Ladra has a feeling that they are going to be taking video for campaign material, so if you’re going, dress nice.
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On the invitation to Monday’s event: Hialeah Council Members Paul “Pablitiquito” Hernandez, Isis “Gavelgirl” Garcia-Martinez and Katherine Cue-Fuente, Miami Lakes Councilman Frank Mingo, State Reps. Manny Diaz, Jr. and Jose Oliva, Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Carlos Curbelo and Mario Diaz-Balart (who will be joined by his joined-at-the-hip older brother, Lincoln), Miami-Dade School Board Member Perla Tabares Hantman, Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz and former State Sen. Rudy Garcia.
But if people thought the Bush campaign was in trouble, this free event confirms it. Because they are scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Diaz was recently arrested on DUI charges in Key West. Rudy Garcia is a lobbyist who is remembered for absolutely nothing during his 15 years in Tallahassee. Garcia couldn’t even get Hialeah voters to support him in 2011 when he lost in the first round of a mayoral race.
But Hernandez would have been a big story and he may have been asked to stay away. A known bully and liar, he was publicly humiliated when he had to 
admit, under oath, that he was indeed a loanshark. He was fined by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust for knowingly lying to the public.
And that’s not the worst about him. The guy is bad news — a creep who abuses his power to punish political opponents. He doesn’t only have a police department that he uses as his own personal G3. He also has his enforcer, Glenn Rice, who bullies any challengers and video tapes employees who campaign for opponents so that they can retaliate later.
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Doesn’t Jeb’s camp realize that “Castro” Hernandez’s absence from the invitation is embarrassing in and of itself? Looks like they are still going after the large number of absentee ballots in Hialeah that are controlled by the mayor and his machinery.
Ladra half expects the Hialeah hoodlums to bring in busloads of elderly who live in city-controlled public housing and are the heart of their AB operation.
In fact, we would not be surprised if someone isn’t handing out absentee ballot requests at the door, which opens at 7:15 a.m. at Chico’s, 4070 West 12th Ave.
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