New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has removed Rochester’s David Gantt as chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee and named him to the position of Assistant Majority Leader.
Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli of Syracuse Tweets that he’s been appointed as the new chairman.
Gantt has represented Rochester’s 137th Assembly District since 1983 and has chaired the Transportation Committee since 2001. He was forced to miss much of the last assembly session due to ill health.