BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Every Democrat in the state Legislature's Western New York delegation ate dinner at the Governor's Mansion on June 1 and discussed priority projects should the state get an expected major influx of federal money.

According to a Buffalo News report, attention apparently shifted away from long-standing conversations to tear down the Buffalo Skyway as legislators expressed more interest in other projects, including transforming sections of the Kensington and Scajaquada expressways.

Spectrum News 1 reached out to all the members at the meeting for more details, but received no more information, with some saying they'd let the previous report stand on its own and others simply not responding.

State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt said he does believe Republicans should be involved in these decisions but he doesn't want to normalize any meetings — public or private — with the governor as he remains under several investigations and the conference is calling for his resignation.

"If we were willing to take the power back and exercise our full authority, we wouldn't have to go to his house, which for some women maybe is a house of horrors, but to go there and to have these discussions, whose under all these allegations and investigations, including by some of the members in the room, I think is a bridge too far," Ortt said.

Ortt referenced one of the sexual harassment accusations against the governor allegedly happened in the Governor's Mansion. He also said he would have specific concerns if any members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee who are handling an impeachment investigation into those allegations and others were at the dinner. Assemblywomen Monica Wallace and Karen McMahon were reportedly in attendance and are part of the committee.

McMahon did not respond at all Tuesday, however, Wallace in a statement said it was her job to an attend an important meeting with Assembly and Senate colleagues to voice concerns of her community as she's done thoroughout the pandemic when she reached out to the executive to complain about unemploymeny and COVID restrictions.

She said, like the attorney general who is investigating the governor while continuing to defend him in court in other cases, she can "walk and chew gum at the same time" and the Legislature still needs to do its job while the investigation is pending.

The state Republican party chair plans to hold a press conference Wedneday to call for Wallace and McMahon to step down from the committee.