While all eyes are on the Miami-Dade County Commission and its budget hearing today, there will be phones ringing off the hook at the homes of 
voters in Miami Lakes and Homestead, where there are city elections Oct. 1.
That is because absentee ballots drop for voters in both cities Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miami-Dade Elections Department Spokeswoman Christina White said the county will mail 2,471 absentee ballots to voters in Homestead, for their regularly scheduled primary, and 2,484 to voters in Miami Lakes — for their emergency election to replace former Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi, who was suspended by the governor last month after he was arrested on federal bribery and extortion charges in a two-year FBI sting
Ladra doesn’t know much about AB operations in Homestead, but I have a lot of malas lenguas in Miami Lakes. And they say that Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador is trying to get in on the Miami Lakes race. In fact, she apparently hates Councilman Nelson Hernandez so much (read: she hates his benefactors, which include State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez and Sen. Rene Garcia), Tirador, who has worked for Pizzi in the past, will work for any other candidate for free.
Luis Espinosa, a retired Hialeah firefighter, was told by a friend not to work with Tirador after someone else told him that she had offered her services. He didn’t know who she was. So he googled her — and decided not to use her.
But that doesn’t mean she won’t help him anyway. Sasha is just the type to do her thang with or without a candidate’s permission. Especially if she doesn’t need to get paid. I’ve heard she’s done it before, even helping Danny Bolaños in his race against Hialeah Councilwoman Vivian Casals-Muñoz, who we understand she hates more than Hernandez.
And in Miami Lakes, especially in a low turnout election like this, a Tirador and a couple 100 votes could make a big difference.
Ladra hopes the FBI is still watching.
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