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 […]
More absentee voters have cast ballots in the June 28 mayoral runoff than in the May 24 primary already, with six days left for people to return them. As of today, the Miami-Dade Elections Department reports that 75,471 absentee ballots returned of the 126,980 requested. That’s almost 60 percent. And it could top 80,000 by […]
Maybe Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez digs Hialeah, after all. The former county commissioner has taken some disproportionate flack for a robocall that disses the City of Progress, which he says his campaign has nothing to do with (more on that later). But he sure spends a lot of time there. Saturday’s caravan through the […]
Former Hialeah councilman Alex Morales, who was director at the Hialeah Housing Authority until he was fired under a political cloud in 2009 and is an avid critic of the former mayor and his administration, did what some close to him expected on Monday: He filed documents as a candidate for the council seat being […]