Longtime Hialeah Planning and Zoning Board member and council candidate Ramiro Sicre sat on a bench on the third floor outside the clerk’s office at City Hall Friday afternoon and waited. And waited. And waited. Sicre, sitting here next to former councilwoman Cindy Miel, who filed to run against Council President Isis “Guttergirl” Garcia-Martinez in […]
The first endorsement is out in the Hialeah mayor’s race — which is becoming more contentious (read: interesting) by the day — and the firefighter union’s pick of former mayor Raul Martinez is both surprising and expected. It may surprise those who remember Martinez’s reign and hostile “If-you-don’t-like-it-here-go work-at-the-city-of-Miami” rapport with the firefighters that the […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has been silent on the upcoming elections in Hialeah, where one of the mayoral candidates and several council wannabes worked hard for his campaign and recruited family members and friends — even contributors. But that silence will be broken before the Nov. 1 election. Ladra had to find Gimenez at the […]
A poll of 300 Hialeah residents paid for by the city’s firefighters union puts former mayor Raul Martinez in the pole position for the mayoral race this November with a double-digit lead over incumbent mayor, Carlos Hernandez. But while former State Sen. Rudy Garcia has been in the number three position before, he is now […]
Though he has been a non candidate for weeks, State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez formally dropped out of the Hialeah mayoral race Thursday with a statement on his facebook page that took a swipe at the interim incumbent running for re-election. What it didn’t say is that Gonzalez still plans to run for the seat — […]
Campaign teams are forming as paid political operatives attach themselves to candidates and slates in the upcoming Hialeah elections. Most recently, interim alcaldito Carlos Hernandez and Council President Isis “Gavelgirl” Garcia-Martinez were spotted at a Starbuck’s on West 49th Street Thursday morning with absentee ballot queen Sasha Tirador and gypsy con artist and Tiradorita-in-Training Vanessa […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]