I just got back from voting, and while I was in the booth, I noticed something very peculiar.
Bernard Goetz was listed as a candidate for Public Advocate. At first I thought I read it wrong, so I re-read it, then I thought, 'wow, that poor guy, imagine being named Bernard Goetz'.
So I came home and I googled Bernard Goetz. And I think it's the same guy, the (in)famous gun-toting 'subway vigilante' who is now advertising himself as a vegetarian squirrel-lover. Maybe I'm hopelessly misinformed, but when did this guy get involved with politics?
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4 comments:
Hi new reader here. Bernie has been running for office for years. In fact he ran for Mayor one year, I think when Dinkins won.
I'm really interested in seeing how many people voted for him.
hi evil...thanks for stopping by. according to the nytimes this morning, bernie received 17.829 votes.
I just read about Goetz in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point. I'd vote for him. At least, you know he won't back down from a position.
mansoor: that whole chapter in the tipping point was fascinating...i had forgotten what the city and the subways were like in the mid-eighties
stretch: ha! i almost DID vote for him...i almost wish that i had, given the bizarre randomness of his 'platform'
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