Looks like the slate of recycled politicians running for office again is a full house in Hialeah: two former mayors and three council campaign veterans makes for a very nice hand. I’ll stay. So what if they did not drive in together to the Hialeah city council meeting Tuesday? If it looks like a slate, […]
Hialeah’s city council meetings are not only wonderful classes on city history and political plotting, they also provide us with little unexpected treats that may shed light on upcoming elections. Imagine Ladra’s delight surprise to find campaign consultant and absentee ballot queen extraordinaire Sasha Tirador — who couldn’t get former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina the […]
If every Hialeah City Council meeting from now until November is going to turn into a political showdown between incumbent candidates and their climbing competition, well, you know where you’ll find Ladra every other Tuesday. This free entertainment is too good to pass up. Besides, I’d hate to miss it when former councilman, current candidate […]
Frank Lago, the chief of staff to Sweetwater Mayor Manny Maroño, has officially filed to run for Hialeah council — challenging the weakest of the council members on the dais. That is, if Paul Henrnadez — appointed two months ago to fill the vacancy created when the council president was appointed mayor — even runs. […]
The plot thickens like un tamal en cazuela on As Hialeah Churns. When last we left our City of Retrogress, city officials and acting alcaldito Carlos Hernandez — appointed by the lying, thieving former mayor, a political powerhouse that basically imploded in a battle of good versus evil when he tried to seek a higher […]
Yes, people of Hialeah: Former city councilman and current candidate Alex Morales is your neighbor. He moved back into the city last August, traded his half million Miami Lakes house with a yard and a wife for a one-bedroom apartment across from Tinta Latina Tattoo Studio and next to an abandoned foreclosed office building where […]
One of the people with eyes on the dais at Hialeah City Hall is a former veteran water department employee who has been campaigning and had a pretty big, volunteer t-shirted team and a banner at the city’s Fourth of July celebration earlier this month. But how did Daisy Castellanos pay for those yellow shirts […]
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 […]