The voting in the Hialeah elections has reached record levels already — five days before Election Day. But if you think the big push over the top is happening in early voting at the JFK library, think again. It’s by mail — fueled by absentee ballots. While there have been 2,232 ballots cast at the library […]
A robocall urging Hialeahns to oust Councilwoman Vivian Casals-Muñoz — because she had the audacity to vote “no” twice in the Seguro Que Yes crew — was received by some voters Tuesday while the candidate and both her opponents were at the JFK library greeting early voters. But niether former cop and current Hialeah Housing Authority employee Danny […]
The numbers are simply staggering. Ladra took a stroll down the Miami-Dade election department’s website and the absentee ballot report as of Tuesday’s totals show that a whopping 17,780 absentee ballots have been mailed in Hialeah. That’s 20 percent of the 88,565 or so voters registered. There are more than twice as many ABs already […]
While everyone is watching the candidates and their campaigns, PACs have proliferated at an alarming rate as four cities known for raunchy races — Hialeah, Homestead, Miami and Miami Beach — get within the two week mark of Election Day. We will get to the other cities later (really, we will… there is just too […]
Not everyone was so surprised to hear about Hialeah alcaldito Carlos Hernandez‘s loansharking business. What surprised some people was that it took so long to come out again. But we can probably thank el alcaldito himself for that — and the campaign. And TV news host Oscar Haza, perhaps. And former Mayor and front-running candidate […]
Two weeks after that infamous lunch with senior residents from public housing at IHOP — you know, where Alcaldito Carlos Hernandez insulted balseros and divorced women and Council President Isis “Gavergirl” Garcia-Martinez had a hissy fit when we caught her in a blatant lie — we still don’t know what the real cost was and who paid for […]
Forget Nov. 1. The election in Hialeah starts today. That’s when absentee voters will begin to get their ballots in their mail. Then, they’ll each probably get a phone call from one campaign or the other to ask if they received their absentee ballot and if they know what to do with it — or maybe want help to fill […]
Wanted: Surrogate reporter to attend the next Hialeah Council meeting or two since Ladra may be ordered to stay 500 feet away. Duties include listening to the back-patting council rubber stamp everything before them. Pay is in shots of Cuban coffee. It was not enough for Council President Isis “Gavelgirl” Garcia-Martinez to have me ejected […]
Some city employees get fired or transferred for real or perceived political alliances that aren’t in line with the current administration. Others get a 17 percent paycut forced on them or threatened with a 40 percent downsizing for retaliatory reasons. But not everybody who works in Hialeah has it so bad. There are created and choice jobs and “salary […]
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) — […]