Tuesday night’s loss in Doral was double whammy for political consultant Sasha Tirador, who worked for both incumbent Mayor Luigi Boria and council candidate Adriana Moyano, who both lost their runoff elections. The victories by their opponents — JC Bermudez and Claudia Mariaca, respectively — was pretty solid, and that includes very comfy leads in […]
Pete Cabrera’s move to fire the city clerk will hinge on one vote — Mayor Luigi Boria’s. But the two men have one thing in common: Campaign consultant Sasha Tirador. The war between newly elected Doral Councilman Pete Cabrera and City Clerk Barbara Herrera has escalated pretty quickly, even for Doral’s standards. Cabrera, who won […]
With one hand, Sweetwater Mayor Jose Diaz fired a bunch of people to “clean house” and get rid of the cronies left over from the administration of former and disgraced Mayor Manny “Maraña” Maroño, who is now serving three years in the pen on federal public corruption charges. With the other, Diaz hired Alexis Martinez, […]
Three of the six city employees let go by Sweetwater Mayor Jose Diaz last month in what he called a “clean sweep” were re-instated by the commission on Monday. Former Human Resources Director Joanna Rubio was the only department head to be rehired by the minimum required 5-2 margin. But I hope she doesn’t get […]
In what has been characterized as a political ploy a full year before what is shaping up to be a heated local election, Sweetwater Mayor Jose M. Diaz — a 12-year commissioner who took over last fall after the previous mayor was arrested on federal public corruption charges — said he has absolutely no idea […]
Almost everyone in the political 305 has the same basic theory about the very public and nasty breakup between consultant/lobbyist David Custin and campaign attorney JC Planas — that it has to do with newly-elected Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine. Oh, and money, of course. A couple of sources close Beach government have suggested that […]
Everybody saw it coming: Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez and the two councilmen up for re-election coasted back into office Tuesday on what looks like a mandate from the people. But what most people don’t realize is that, much more than simply an absentee ballot problem, Hialeah has a wider “hostile election climate” where many […]
Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador — who has diversified in the kind of shenanigans she specializes in — is the subject of at least two investigations into her campaign practices. One is sorta new and has to do with last year’s mayoral bid in Doral. One is sorta old and revolves around the alleged mingling […]
An assistant of Doral Mayor Luigi Boria‘s, who had worked on his campaign last year, resigned Monday amid allegations that there were campaign finance law violations related to the rental of the campaign office. Gonzalo Bello, who pretty much ran the day-to-day operations at the shopping strip campaign office and later became the mayor’s administrative […]
Is she at it again? Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador is under investigation for co-mingling campaign funds from her judicial and municipal campaigns last year (more on that later). But that doesn’t stop her from flirting with the same kind of disaster for the upcoming Hialeah elections. Tirador doesn’t only represent Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez […]