Newly-elected Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo replaced Police Chief Sergio Velazquez Monday, but it reportedly had nothing to do with the dressing down of a sergeant at his swearing-in ceremony last week. Bovo relieved Velazquez of duty and named George Fuente the interim chief as he starts a national search for a new permanent top cop. […]
Chief Sergio Velazquez abuses his position to retaliate and embarrass Ending three months of medical leave for an off-duty injury, Hialeah Police Sgt. Marvin Alvarez was set to come back to work on Monday. But after attending the swearing-in ceremony Friday for newly-elected Mayor Esteban Bovo, Alvarez was relieved of duty — and stripped to […]
Hialeah Councilman Carl Zogby, the former police department spokesman, won re-election outright in a three-way Group 5 race Tuesday, with 57% of the vote. Mayra Jimenez got 27% and Salvador Blanco got 16%. But the other two council races, the open seats which had five and six candidates vying, are headed into a runoff after […]
Pobre Hialeah. They were Esteban Bovo‘s second choice. But one year after he lost the race for Miami-Dade mayor, the former county commissioner — whose political career began on the Hialeah council — voters chose him over four others to be the next mayor en la ciudad que progresa. The city might have to come […]
Fight nearly breaks out at early voting, caught on video There are actually five candidates in the Hialeah mayoral race that ends Tuesday, but three of them don’t really count. This election has become a head to head war between former Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo and former Hialeah Councilwoman Isis Garcia-Martinez. They’re sucking all […]
Alina Garcia, a longtime Republican attaché who has worked in the elected offices for Congressman David Rivera, former and disgraced State Sen. Frank Artiles, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Petronis and Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo, has moved to the city of Miami to work for Joe Carollo. For the quinfecta. Garcia has worked two […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava beat her colleague on the dais to become the next county mayor — making history as the first woman elected to the position, the second most power political job in Florida. Levine Cava won with 54% of the vote, an 8-point lead over Commissioner Esteban Bovo, according to the Miami-Dade […]
Brandon Rosado, Ladra’s cachorro intern, has a keen eye for campaigns and elections. He wanted to provide his own analysis of his ballot for our readers. So just in time, without any further ado (and tiny bit of editing for syntax, not style or substance), is Brandon’s ballot picks for Tuesday’s elections — from top […]
While he came in first in the first round, Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo was the least funded of the four viable county mayoral candidates. He’s all but caught up now, getting within $30K of Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, with more than $1 million raised since the Aug. 18 primary. According to the latest campaign […]
When Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez endorsed Esteban “Stevie” Bovo for county mayor, political observers raised an eyebrow. When his son, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, endorsed Renier Diaz de la Portilla in the Miami-Dade District 5 race, we did a double take. On Wednesday, former Mayor Alex Penelas — who came in third in the first […]