WHITE PLAINS — Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch brought his reform revolution to the city
Monday, proclaiming that his upstart movement is about to reshape Albany politics.

The former Big Apple boss, 85 and feisty, said New York Uprising, the grass-roots group he founded
this year, has gotten 301 state legislators and candidates — both Republicans and Democrats — to
sign a pledge to support the movement’s reform-minded agenda.

“There were very few people who thought we had any chance of prevailing,” Koch said outside the Westchester County office building. “I now believe we’re going to win.

“There’s time left for everybody to become a hero of reform and we will welcome them like prodigal sons
and daughters,” Koch added. “No hard feelings. We want them to come to join us.”

The former three-term mayor was joined by more than a dozen Lower Hudson Valley incumbents and
legislative hopefuls, all of who have signed Uprising’s three-tier platform: Fair redistricting,
ethics reform and a responsible budget based on accepted accounting principles.

In fact, the bulk of Lower Hudson Valley legislators and candidates have signed on.