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Final Voting: Papandreou v Penalosa in “Fantasy LADOT G.M. Ballot”

The results are in from our Streetpoll and Streetsbloggers have narrowed the field for our "Fantasy General Manager Election."  Now it's time for the final vote between Tim Papandreou and Gil Penalosa.  Penalosa is an international figure famous for his relationship to CicLAvia.  Papandreou is more of a "local boy does well" story, even though he's currently stationed in San Francisco.  You can read more about Penalosa here, and more about Papandreou here.

The winner won't just be our first Streetsie winner of the year, but we'll also do our best to track the winner down and interview him.  I'll tally the votes Friday morning.  For anyone just joining us, none of our candidates were consulted before being nominated, thus the "fantasy..."

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