Longtime Republican Southern Tier Assemblyman Andrew Goodell will retire at the end of the year.
Goodell has represented New York’s 150th District – which covers all of Chautauqua County and the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Reservation in Erie County – for 14 years. His retirement at the end of this year marks the end of his seventh term in office.
“I am extremely thankful to have the opportunity to represent Chautauqua County and a portion of the Seneca Nation,” Goodell wrote in a Facebook post Thursday announcing his retirement. “It was an experience of a lifetime, for which I am very grateful.”
Before he was elected to the Assembly in 2010, Goodell was the Chautauqua County attorney in the 1980s and the Chautauqua County executive from 1990 to 1997, according to his biography.
During his time in office, Goodell helped secure $30 million for the National Comedy Center in Jamestown. He sponsored legislation to increase the number of Family Court judges in Chautauqua County and add a judge to the Jamestown City Court, as well as legislation to expand Medicaid eligibility for assisted living in Chautauqua County.
“Our world has become more violent again,” said State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, who is pushing the measure with Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, R-Jamestown.
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