Want to Be Mayor of Los Angeles? Fix the Potholes
Rivals for the top job hype their low- and high-tech approaches to roads
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Wendy Greuel calls herself the “Pothole Queen” because she once spent a weekend helping volunteers fill 747 of them. Eric Garcetti came up with an app that allows citizens to report potholes. Both want to be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
Voters in the U.S.’s second-largest city go to the polls on May 21 to choose a successor to term-limited Antonio Villaraigosa, who’s known for hobnobbing with Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, Kirk Douglas, Drew Barrymore, Jessica Alba, will.i.am, and … the list goes on. The country came to know Villaraigosa as a leading Latino politician when he served as chairman of the Democratic National Convention last year.