In an Op-ed in the Daily News former New York City Mayor Ed Koch names names in his crusade to fix Albany. Here is some of what he has to say.

“The leaders of our state Legislature are not well known. The two I worked with over an extended period were Speaker of the Assembly Stanley Fink, a Democrat, and Majority Leader of the Senate Warren Anderson, a Republican. Compared with today’s leaders, Fink and Anderson were giants devoted to the public’s needs.

Regrettably, the two current leaders - Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, and Majority Leader of the Senate John Sampson, also a Democrat - are not in the Fink-Anderson tradition of public service. Indeed, at this moment, New York Uprising, a political action committee - in which I have a leadership role - is dedicated to cleaning the Augean Stables known now as the dysfunctional Albany Legislature.

New York Uprising has designated Silver and Sampson as “Enemies of Reform.” Their names and many others are posted on our Web site, www.nyuprising.org.

About six months ago, along with Dick Dadey of Citizens Union and Henry Stern of New York Civic and others, I decided to undertake this crusade. We are taking on the state Legislature, which almost every New Yorker sees as a disgrace, shaming us with its antics and its inability to adopt a state budget.

As we speak, adoption of the budget is more than three months late. That lateness is not simply a delay without consequences. Municipalities dependent on state funding, as well as nongovernmental agencies similarly dependent, are suffering and have to privately or publicly borrow monies to keep operating - paying interest on loans. Commentators now compare New York with the bankrupt and equally scorned state of California.”

To read the entire op-ed click here.