By Aaron Liebowitz and Joey Flechas
The mayor of Hialeah, the second-largest city in Miami-Dade County, (click here) said Tuesday that he was denied entry to a roundtable that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was holding with several city mayors to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic.
DeSantis announced plans Tuesday morning for the 1 p.m. in-person roundtable at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami, and members of his staff contacted the mayors of several cities in Miami-Dade County to invite them to the meeting. Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez said he didn’t receive an invitation, but Miami Mayor Francis Suarez informed him the roundtable was taking place.
When Hernandez tried to walk in, he told the Miami Herald, a member of the governor’s staff told him he wasn’t invited and couldn’t enter....
Carlos Hernandez (click here)
June 17, 2020
By Layron Livingston
...“I’ve been saying from the beginning, (click here) there’s many many people out there that do have the coronavirus that we don’t know about, and I wish the governor, from the first moment, would have come to Hialeah and help us more. Because he hasn’t done much for the city of Hialeah, to be honest with you,” Mayor Carlos Hernandez told Local 10 News by phone Wednesday.
Hialeah is one of the state’s most populous cities, with more than 230,000 residents densely packed.
Of the 80,676 Florida residents who have tested positive for COVID-19, 3,080 are from Hialeah. That’s the second-most for any city in the state, behind only Miami (13,740)...
