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Bernie Goetz is back! And he'd like to be known as Bernard now, not Bernhard, okay? The man who famously shot four black teenagers in a subway car in 1984 is now running to become an Independence Party state committee member. (And his chief challenger may be as crazy as he is: Dr. Fred Newman, a controversial "former Marxist who is now a psychotherapist.") Goetz isn't new to the local political fray: In 2005, he ran for Manhattan public advocate on a platform of instituting vegetarian diets in public schools and assisting the city's population of infirm squirrels. Really. Fortunately, Goetz hasn't updated his website since his last run, so you get a taste for his nutty politics here. After the jump: footage of Bernie playing with with one of his rodent pals!