State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez (R-Hialeah), who is termed out this year and was shopping for a new seat to fill, is said to be switching gears — yet again — and jumping into the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser’s race. Any day now. And he will instantly become the guy to beat in what essentially becomes a […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez — who has been denying allegations for years that he committed felony usury — took to the stand in his predecessor’s trial and admitted that he loaned money at 36% interest to a convicted Ponzi schemer who is now the feds’ star witness in the tax evasion and fraud trial against […]
Well, that was fast. Former Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Pedro Garcia was the first one out the gate to file documents that show he will run for the job he was ousted from by the new PropApp Carlos “C-Lo” Lopez-Cantera, who was tapped last week by Gov. Rick Scott to become Lieutenant Governor. Garcia lost to […]
It’s [almost] official. And it is a Hispanic after all. The guv and his campaign team must have seen the writing on the wall. Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera is almost assuredly headed off to Tallahassee to be Gov. Rick Scott‘s No. 2, despite the fact that he wasn’t on the shortlist a month ago, […]
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 […]
It seems that campaign consultant David Custin can’t keep a long-term relationship with anybody. Word is that Custin and his attorney pal JC Planas, who share a multitude of political clients and most recently conspired, er, I mean worked together to elect Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, are at odds with each other. Is it […]
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! No, it’s a plane. Yeah, it’s a plane. A political plane with a message. It wasn’t enough for Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez to win with 81 percent of the vote Tuesday. It wasn’t enough to usher in two of his lackeys on the Seguro Que Yes […]
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 […]
A probable cause hearing has been scheduled on what was a questionable ethics complaint to begin with, filed against one of the candidates in the uglier-by-the-minute Homestead mayoral race, looking very much like a campaign move made simply to bolster Mark Bell‘s chances in the heated runoff against former Councilman Jeff Porter. Note that the […]
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 […]