Photo by Looking Glass.

There are a lot of choices for DC mayor, but one stands (or flies) above the rest: Wonder Woman. Why? She supports building a comprehensive network of streetcars in the District of Columbia.

Wonder Woman is one of eight superheroes in the New Organizing Institute competition, which trains young political organizers to use email lists, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other new media for political campaigns. Regular citizens (like you) can vote for your favorite on Friday.

In addition to Wonder Woman, Superman would make mass transit stronger than steel, and Spiderman realizes that with great power comes great responsibility to make Metro run all night.

Tomorrow: How supervillains can fool some superheroes into supporting bad policy.

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Tagged: politics, streetcars, transit

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.