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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]