A Guide to Your Longshot Mayoral Candidates
Joe Lhota
Someone explain to me how this guy thinks he’s going to be mayor. Lhota is running for the Republican nomination (which, already, this is by all accounts a Democrat’s year), and he has two distinctions: one, he’s the favorite candidate of Rudy Giuliani; two, he’s the former head of the MTA. Both of these are terrible things: Giuliani is widely despised—no?—and the MTA is the most hated agency in all of New York. Lhota’s last act before leaving the MTA was to raise fares. And now he thinks people will make him mayor? Because the MTA did a good job getting service back up after Superstorm Sandy? Seriously, what the fuck? [photo]