New York Times published a piece on Ed Koch’s “last hurrah”.

“Throw the bums out!” Mr. Koch, the former mayor of New York City, shouted from the steps of a city hall 400 miles from his Greenwich Village home.

The bums in question were four local politicians who had failed to sign on to what could be Mr. Koch’s most difficult campaign yet: to remake the ineffective government in Albany. In front of a lone local news camera and a few curious onlookers, he called out each offender with a jumbo photo.

“You’re either on the side of the angels, or you’re a bum,” Mr. Koch said with customary bluntness, the Buffalo wind muffling his words. “And if the angels betray their pledges, I’m going to run around the state screaming, ‘Liar, liar, pants on fire!’ ”