So-called speaker boycotting Post

Maybe he forgot his title. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (right), who, as the Democratic leader of New York’s lower legislative house, is one of the three most powerful elected officials in the state, extended his boycott of questions from The Post for a second week Tuesday — and angrily declared he won’t “be disrespected” by New York’s hardest-hitting tabloid.

During a Q&A with reporters in Albany, the Bronx Democrat pointedly ignored Post reporter Zach Williams, who asked why Assembly Democrats were changing committee rules to make it harder for lawmakers to force votes on controversial legislation. “Next question,” Heastie said curtly. The move marked the second time in as many weeks that Heastie refused to respond to inquiries from Williams, who last Wednesday tried to ask about bail reform and charter schools.

On Tuesday, a reporter from a competing news outlet asked Heastie, “Can you tell us why you don’t want to take questions from the New York Post? And what is leading to this? How long it’s gonna last?”

“I’m not going to be disrespected just because I’m an elected official,” the pol responded.

When asked if his stonewalling was prompted by “a particular story,” Heastie said, “I could run down a list, but that’s not why

I’m here.”