Transportation Professor runs for Mayor
Apparently University of Hawaii Transportation Professor Panos Prevedouros (co-author of a well known undergraduate engineering textbook) is running for mayor of Honolulu: Panos for Mayor
He is an opponent of the ~$4 Billion Honolulu rail project, to the extent there is a blog entitled Fire Dr. Panos Prevedouros: UH Please fire him NOW!, clearly a very focused theme.
If he succeeds, he will join President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as transportation Ph.Ds in politics.