Ladra will always love the Miami Herald and be grateful for the incredible talent and drive there that has made her who she is today. But times have changed. And it’s a good thing that the Miami Herald’s editorial recommendations in elections are not worth their weight in the paper that prints it anymore. Perhaps […]
The voting in the Hialeah elections has reached record levels already — five days before Election Day. But if you think the big push over the top is happening in early voting at the JFK library, think again. It’s by mail — fueled by absentee ballots. While there have been 2,232 ballots cast at the library […]
A robocall urging Hialeahns to oust Councilwoman Vivian Casals-Muñoz — because she had the audacity to vote “no” twice in the Seguro Que Yes crew — was received by some voters Tuesday while the candidate and both her opponents were at the JFK library greeting early voters. But niether former cop and current Hialeah Housing Authority employee Danny […]
We had been suspecting it for a while, ever since gunshop owner Tony “Phony” Vega changed groups in the Hialeah Council elections back in the middle of September. But on Tuesday, Ladra Vega and su alcaldito Carlos Hernandez came out of the political closet and showed their love for each other. “We love Tony Vega,” […]
Hialeah hairdresser Aida Perez, whose introduction is always followed by “she’s Felipito’s mom,” doesn’t live in the City of Progress. So she can’t vote there. But she drove her sister to early voting at the John F. Kennedy library Tuesday and got to spend a little time with former Mayor Raul Martinez and some of his Back […]
Among the deferential, diplomatic decencies displayed during early voting liftoff over the weekend at the JFK library in Hialeah, was Council President Isis “Gavelgirl” Garcia-Martinez making nice with Ladra. No, really. First, she said “Good morning,” as she walked by, totally taking me by surprise because she had been completely ignoring me — just like el alcaldito […]
A thick, bright, white stripe line that appeared out of nowhere and meantnothing became the most exciting part of the first day of early voting inHialeah Saturday. When candidates and campaign volunteers arrived at the JFKlibrary on West 49th Street, they found a freshly painted stripe boundary thatseemed further from the polling place than the 100-foot […]
He’s baaaaaaack. Again. Hialeah voters got a blast from the past on the phone Saturday when former Mayor Julio Robaina — a relative recluse after his ruinous run for county mayor — reached out with a recorded robocall for his former sister-in-law Councilwoman Vivian Casals-Muñoz on Saturday, the day that early voting started at the JFK library. […]
The numbers are simply staggering. Ladra took a stroll down the Miami-Dade election department’s website and the absentee ballot report as of Tuesday’s totals show that a whopping 17,780 absentee ballots have been mailed in Hialeah. That’s 20 percent of the 88,565 or so voters registered. There are more than twice as many ABs already […]
While everyone is watching the candidates and their campaigns, PACs have proliferated at an alarming rate as four cities known for raunchy races — Hialeah, Homestead, Miami and Miami Beach — get within the two week mark of Election Day. We will get to the other cities later (really, we will… there is just too […]