On the eve of the grand opening for the West 12th Avenue campaign headquarters he shares with three of the four council incumbents (more on that later) on the November Hialeah elections, there appears to be a question as to whether Hialeah Alcaldito Carlos Hernandez can even run in the mayoral race. Oh, Hernandez qualified […]
As expected, the endorsement from the Unity Coalition for the Miami city election in District 2 went to Kate Callahan — who pays the group’s political director, Vanessa Brito, $4,500 a month to manage her campaign against incumbent Commissioner Marc Sarnoff. What was not expected is that the organization took it back four hours later. […]
The man acting as mayor in Hialeah must have forgotten that voters did not put him there. If he had remembered that he is but a temporary placemark puppet placed in power by his mentor/master Julio Robaina — who Ladra feels somehow still pulls the strings at City Hall — he may not have dared […]
The first endorsement is out in the Hialeah mayor’s race — which is becoming more contentious (read: interesting) by the day — and the firefighter union’s pick of former mayor Raul Martinez is both surprising and expected. It may surprise those who remember Martinez’s reign and hostile “If-you-don’t-like-it-here-go work-at-the-city-of-Miami” rapport with the firefighters that the […]
Hialeah council candidate Frank Lago resigned from his job as chief of staff to Sweetwater Mayor Manny Maroño this week in order to concentrate on the campaign. But the permanent exit — Lago took a leave of absence earlier this year to run for Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo’s vacated state house seat (R/District 110) — […]
The political advisor of a LGBT group that intends to make endorsements in the Miami city elections is also the campaign manager for one of the candidates. And while that appears to be an enormous — and possibly planned — conflict of interest to everyone in the universe, however, is defended as business as usual […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has been silent on the upcoming elections in Hialeah, where one of the mayoral candidates and several council wannabes worked hard for his campaign and recruited family members and friends — even contributors. But that silence will be broken before the Nov. 1 election. Ladra had to find Gimenez at the […]
Recalled Miami-Dade Commissioner Natacha Seijas has said several times since she came out of hiding a few weeks ago, first in an El Nuevo Herald and then on WQBA, that Mayor Carlos Gimenez — who served on the dais with her for six years — didn’t actually run for his seat. “He didn’t run for […]
Breakfast came with a side of budget matters Tuesday morning for a new county elected and his predecessor at a Miami Lakes Latin American cafeteria — and Ladra is the luckiest dog in the world to have been put in the right place at the right time (more on that later). Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo […]
A poll of 300 Hialeah residents paid for by the city’s firefighters union puts former mayor Raul Martinez in the pole position for the mayoral race this November with a double-digit lead over incumbent mayor, Carlos Hernandez. But while former State Sen. Rudy Garcia has been in the number three position before, he is now […]