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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]