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 […]
This breaking news just in: An hour or two after Jose Mallea called Ladra to tell her he was only going to be the interim chief of staff for new Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Ladra gets the word that Key Biscayne Village Manager Genaro “Chip” Iglesias — the mayor’s former chief of staff when he […]
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio‘s former campaign manager, local GOP wunderboy Jose Mallea, may have joined the Carlos Gimenez For Mayor team late in the game, but his plays were apparently pivotal in the win. Mallea, 34, was introduced Monday to department directors at the 3 p.m. meeting as the new mayor’s new chief of staff. […]
Voters in Hialeah already see signs of the upcoming city election and will soon get barraged with junk mail and/or phone calls — both robotic and humanly monotonous — from between 10 or so and possibly up to 15 candidates. One issue is already becoming a hot topic: money, of course. The city’s financial state […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez has announced, very dramatically, that he wants to cut the mayor’s pay by 30 percent, from $272,000 to $190,000. But what he forgot to say was that he will never feel it in his pocket. No, siree. Hernandez will still enjoy six or seven more paychecks with an almost 400 percent […]
The heated campaign for county mayor seems to beaten down JC Flores. He’s done with political promotion, he says. Now he wants to promote to politicos. After what some might call his greatest achievement ever — taking an underdog candidate with somewhat lackluster public speaking skills to the second highest post in the state — […]
Although he has been at work since the day after the election and was sworn in privately so he could really start talking with authority to the unions and his staff, Mayor Carlos Gimenez (photographed here sitting next to his wife, Lourdes, between speeches) was sworn in at a public ceremony Wednesday that was more […]
The high-priced consultants and image brokers, communicators and veteran political advisers to our new mayor Carlos Gimenez certainly helped him win that narrow victory last week against the one-time front runner with three times the bankroll. But, in the end, despite what some 1A stories may say, the win came down to Hialeah’s own team […]
In a quick and private, informal ceremony, Carlos Gimenez is expected to be sworn in this afternoon in front of his wife, his parents, his mother-in-law, his sister-in-law — all the retirees, essentially — and Judge Ivan Fernandez, who will administer the oath and make him the mayor. Photographed here at his victory party with […]