Mayor of Hialeah Esteban Bovo to withdraw, get a job with a lobbying company in Washington – AOL

The Mayor of Hyaliah Esteban Steve Bovo plans to withdraw to join a prominent lobbying company in Washington, which expanded his operations after Trump entered the post, according to several sources in the political circles of Miami-Dad.

BOV received an offer from the Southern Group company with a compensation package exceeding its current salary of $ 150,000 plus $ 40,000 to cover the cost of work, according to sources familiar with private discussions of The mayor of the first term of office with trustees.

The Beovo service did not respond to Miami Herald’s efforts to reach him.

Two sources familiar with the mayor’s plans said Bovo is expected to leave his post to become a lobbyist at the Southern Group Washington Office. The website of the lobbying company lists Daniel Diaz-Balart, the son of former congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart and a nephew of US representative Mario Diaz-Balart, as one of the company representatives. In addition, the office of the company in Miami is working and Oscar J. Brian II, Democrat and former Senator of Florida.

Two months ago, Bovo told The Herald that he was engaged in his work in the city of Hialeia and did not intend to get involved in “fantasies that do not exist” regarding speculation about his accession to the Trump administration.

When asked about BOVO’s future plans, his political consultant David Critin told Herald on Tuesday: “This week I’m not talking to the press about the mayor Bovo’s political, personal or professional decisions,” he said. “Ask me again this month.”

This career change is not Bovo’s first lobbying. He has experience in the consultations by working as an internal lobbyist in Florida for the Miami Children’s Hospital and collaborating with the Hialeah Park casino during his term in the Hyale Municipal Council.

The transition of Bovo to Washington has become more likely after the confirmation of former US Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, further reinforcing his political ties. Rubio’s long -standing relationship with the Bovo family, especially through Bovo’s wife, Viviana, who has worked with Rubio since her days as a speaker of the Florida House, has strengthened their political relationship.

After Rubio left the State House, he made Viviana Besto a consultant, noting a significant step in her political career, which began in 2004 as a legislative assistant to the then state representative Manuel Manuel Priiges. Viviana Bovo has played a major role in providing lucrative contracts by key organizations such as memorial hospitals in Miami and Jackson. Bovo, meanwhile, serves as an internal lobbyist for Miami Dists’s, contributing to successful cooperation, which provided significant funding for both hospitals.

Their relationships continued through Esteban Bovo’s career: Rubio swore him as a commissioner in Miami-Dad, and later served to swear the Bovo, Oscar de la Rosa, in the Hyale Municipal Council. Rubio supported BOVO all the time, supporting his candidacy for the Florida House of Representatives to help launch his Mayor-Dad mayor campaign.

Bovo’s ties with Rubio intensified when he approved him over Donald Trump as president in 2016, but later became Trump’s defender, even recommended the renaming of Palm Avenue to President Donald J. Trump Avenue “in 2023, celebrating the first time in the Aventure of President Donald J. Trump’s sitting or former US president was so honored with Hyalea.

When BOVO retired, the Mayor of the Municipal Council Jacqueline Garcia-Reshes will take on the role of the temporary mayor of Hyallea, making her the first female mayor in the almost 100-year history of the city. It will serve as the rest of Bovo’s term, until the next elections in November.

Garcia-Rowons, a relatively low-profile figure of the Council, has served since 2019 and has been re-elected without opposition in 2023. Its Council Council will become free and completed by appointment, requiring at least four council members voting within 30 days.

Two places on the council were filled in this way in 2024 Garcia-Romenes would return to the council after the mayor’s position was filled in November, unless he decided to run for mayor. The place of the mayor and four council seats, including two temporary positions, will be for grabbing in November.

The 62 -year -old Been, born in Queens, New York, is the son of Cuban immigrants Marilyn and Esteban Bovo Karas. His father was a member of the failed bay of pigs in Cuba in 1961.

Bovo met his wife Viviana in 1997 at Hialeah Park, where he was a marketing director of the race track and she applied for a job. The two married two years later, and Viviana became a US citizen. They have five children.

Bovo’s political journey began in 1998, when he was elected to the Hyalea Municipal Council with the support of the first and only democratic mayor of the city, Raul Martinez. He later served as a state representative for district 110 of 2008-2011 before joining the Miami-Dadd County Commission in 2011, where he represents district 13 until he was running for mayor of a district in 2020 D., a competition that lost to Daniela Levine Kava.

BOVO continued to win the mayoral race Hialeah in 2021 with significant approval by former President Trump. Since then, he has held the position of the mayor in Hyalia, a city with a strong mayoral form of government that gives him considerable executive power.

Several local political figures are regarded as potential candidates for mayor:

▪ Rene Garcia, Commissioner of the Miami-Dad District for District 13, which includes the hyaliah, has not yet confirmed his intentions. The former state senator told The Herald: “Until I hear from Steve Bovo directly about what he or he does not do, it doesn’t make sense to discuss what I can or can’t do.”

▪ Jesus Tundedor, the current member of the Hyalea Municipal Council, which was first elected in 2019 and re -elected in 2023 without opposition, has also weighted. Previously, he was the chairman of the council, Tundedor said: “Hyalia has always been in good hands with the mayor Bovo, Tundedor,” Hyalea has always been in good hands with Mayor Bovo, Tundedor, “Hyalea has always been in good hands with Mayor Bovo , Tundedor, “hyleia has always been in good hands with Mayor Bovo, Tundidor,” hyleia has always been in good hands with the mayor Bovo, Tundedor, “Hyalea has always been in good hands with the mayor Bovo, Tundedor,” Hyalea has always been In good hands with Mayor BOVO and Senator Garcia. I will follow their lead. “

▪ Louis Rodriguez, the current Vice President of the Hyalea Council, elected in 2019, is expected to seek re -election in November. “We should definitely wait for the mayor to make a decision or message,” he said. “Then I will see how I can help my city in the long run.”

▪ Brian Kalvo, a former member of the Hyalea Municipal Council, elected in 2021, who resigned in 2024 to run for a tax collector in Miami-Dad, but lost in the Republican primary, said: ” “.

Miami Herald Douglas Henx’s writer has contributed to this story.