It’s not like there’s an official contest or anything, but in the last few weeks, Florida Sen. Rene Garcia — chairman of the state’s Hispanic Legislative Caucus — has been destacandose as the most Cuban of the local Cuban-American electeds. Makes me think of that Laurie Anderson song, Quien es Mas Macho? Except I keep […]
Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Joe Martinez told Ladra that he was not going to change his strategy in Hialeah now that the political machinery there has publicly announced its endorsement of Mayor Carlos Gimenez. He said the endorsements last week of Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez and the Seguro Que Yes Council — my words, not […]
Ladra is still having a hard time with the fact that her Golden Boy Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has crossed over to the dark side and has yet to call her or make any effort to denounce the violation of freedom of press that occurred when Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez barred me from the […]
A decent crowd of more than two dozen people showed up to the Hialeah Miami Lakes Republican Club Guayabera & Domino Night social fundraiser Saturday to darle agua a las fichas and rub elbows with the Miami-Dade Republican Congressional Three Amigos: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart and King David “Nine Lives” Rivera. Except none of the […]
Absentee ballots for the August primary in Miami-Dade started to trickle in the very day they went out and the county has already mailed almost 143,000 of them to voters — indicating that we will very likely beat the 157,000 ABs requested this time two years ago. But it could be even more by November, […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez told me Friday night at the Biltmore Hotel right before the LABA debate that he had no idea Ladra had been barred from the joyful endorsement celebration in Hialeah earlier that day. Yeah, riiiiight. I know Ladra is jaded, but, while I never said it was his idea, there is no […]
Ladra would like to tell you what it was like at the big brouhaha in Hialeah where Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez and his crew endorsed Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez in his bid for re-election in front of friends and the media. Well, most of the media. Ladra would love to tell you what it was […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez stood between Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez and former city councilman Herman Echevarria — who las malas lenguas say is really running City Hall and who admitted to El Nuevo Herald that he sorta orchestrated the endorsement announced Thursday evening — and posed for a photo after they gave the news to […]
As has been rumored for weeks, Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez is expected to give Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez his endorsement tomorrow. At the Hialeah La Carreta. At high noon. Can you hear Ennio Morricone’s famous cowboy western showdown whistling song from “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly?” Yeah, me too. Looks like politics […]
There are no city elections in Hialeah and there are no politicians there up for any county seats, but state seats and the Absentee Ballot Queen of Hialeah’s involvement in the Miami-Dade mayoral race have once again made the City of Progress the center of the political universe right now — at least in the […]