The candidates who have filed to run so far in the upcoming Hialeah city elections were forced to show their hand by City Clerk David Concepcion this week after he was reminded that state law required candidates who ran in groups to stake claim to one before raising funds. Or should I say slight of […]
Hours after announcing his new $1.2 million (and counting) senior staff, days after he proposed the elimination of 1,300 positions and cuts for the rest, and exactly one month after he was elected in a close and caustic race, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez pretty much coasted through the first town hall meeting on his hurried […]
A poll commissioned by a new candidate in the Hialeah city council race gives former Mayor Raul Martinez quite a comfortable lead over anybody else. No big surprise there. As the city’s mayor for almost three decades, Martinez is king of name recognition, the top brand. No big surprise either that the lead is 16 […]
An anticlimactic impasse declared by Hialeah city officials on the fire union explains some seemingly out-of-nowhere machinations by intern mayor and opportunist bully pulpit candidate Carlos Hernandez, who falsely fingered the firefighters Friday at a staged press conference that should have had a paid political advertisement disclaimer. The city declared impasse about two hours after […]
If at first you don’t succeed, don’t waste the name recognition and run again. That’s a life lesson apparently learned and, now, applied by Frank Lago, chief of staff to Sweetwater Mayor Manuel Maroño, who just took a stab at a state rep seat and lost to cigar czar Jose Oliva (Rep. District 110). So […]
There were more questions than answers after Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez ended his press conference “to discuss the city’s finances” Friday, where he presented misleading numbers. Especially since the information seemed to be pulled from the air, offered nothing to back it up and refused to answer relevant and legitimate questions about his puffed up […]
I have to daily thank any dieties that are responsible for Al Crespo, the blogger who brings us The Crespo-Gram Report, which keeps scooping all the mainstream media and bringing us breaking big stories like Tony Crapp’s resignation and the bribe, er, I mean early retirement offer by Mayor Tomas Regalado to Police Chief Miguel […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez has announced that he will discuss the city’s much-questioned financial situation at a press conference at 3 p.m. Friday. Ladra was off by an hour. “Government should be transparent. For this reason, I will be discussing the city’s finances,” Hernandez said in a media release sent a few minutes ago. But […]
While the mayor’s race in Hialeah seems to be attracting the big bucks — former mayor Raul Martinez and former State Sen. Rudy Garcia (REP, District 40) have more than $240,000 between them — the money is not trickling in as much for council candidates. Not all the campaign finance reports for the upcoming Hialeah […]
Hialeah voters got a look at how nasty the city’s mayoral election may get Tuesday when former Mayor Raul Martinez –– still called Mr. Mayor by almost everybody, even Interim Mayor Carlos Hernandez — challenged the acting boss and fellow candidate to tell him what the city’s financial standing was. The question remains unanswered. Not […]