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 — […]
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 […]
An anticlimactic impasse declared by Hialeah city officials on the fire union explains some seemingly out-of-nowhere machinations by intern mayor and opportunist bully pulpit candidate Carlos Hernandez, who falsely fingered the firefighters Friday at a staged press conference that should have had a paid political advertisement disclaimer. The city declared impasse about two hours after […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez has announced, very dramatically, that he wants to cut the mayor’s pay by 30 percent, from $272,000 to $190,000. But what he forgot to say was that he will never feel it in his pocket. No, siree. Hernandez will still enjoy six or seven more paychecks with an almost 400 percent […]
The high-priced consultants and image brokers, communicators and veteran political advisers to our new mayor Carlos Gimenez certainly helped him win that narrow victory last week against the one-time front runner with three times the bankroll. But, in the end, despite what some 1A stories may say, the win came down to Hialeah’s own team […]
In a quick and private, informal ceremony, Carlos Gimenez is expected to be sworn in this afternoon in front of his wife, his parents, his mother-in-law, his sister-in-law — all the retirees, essentially — and Judge Ivan Fernandez, who will administer the oath and make him the mayor. Photographed here at his victory party with […]
The absentee ballot count in the Miami-Dade mayoral race is in and the split is almost 50/50 — which bodes very well for former county commissioner Carlos Gimenez. Ladra is going to predict now that Mayor Gimenez wins by more than five points. Former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina, and his expensive absenteel ballot machinery, had […]