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Anthony Foxx Resigns As Charlotte Mayor To Take Transportation Post

President Obama and Anthony Foxx
The White House

Anthony Foxx is scheduled to be sworn in as the nation's 17th Secretary of Transportation.  He stepped down from his old job as mayor of North Carolina's largest city on Monday. 

Foxx called a special meeting of the Charlotte City Council to say goodbye to the city he has led for the past four years.

"Thank you for what you've given me," Foxx said.

"I've tried to give some measure of it back and I care deeply about the future of this place.  I leave it to you in good hands and I hope I come back home and I see the evidence of the things we've been able to do together actually happening."

The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Foxx as transportation secretary last week. 

Shortly after Foxx's remarks,  council member Patsy Kinsey was voted in by her colleagues as the city's interim mayor to fill out Foxx's current term.   Candidates are already lining up for a mayoral race in November.

Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
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