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, and has detractors.

If he succeeds, he will join President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as transportation Ph.Ds in politics.