19 apply for Paladino’s seat on Buffalo School Board

There is no shortage of candidates willing to take Carl Paladino's place on the Buffalo school board following his ouster by New York's education commissioner. Paladino, through his lawyer, has indicated he will appeal Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's August decision to remove the one-time Republican candidate for New York governor from the board.

The Latest: School board hopes ouster ends distractions

In this June 22, 2017 file photo, Carl Paladino, right, walks with his lawyers outside the state Department of Education building in Albany, N.Y. The one-time Republican candidate for New York governor whose insults of Barack and Michelle Obama preceded calls for his ouster from the Buffalo school board has been removed from the post. State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced her decision Thursday, Aug. 17, following a five-day hearing in June.

Ex-NY governor hopeful who insulted Obamas kicked off board

One-time Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino, whose published insults of former President Barack Obama provoked a public uproar, was removed from Buffalo's school board Thursday for improperly discussing teacher contract negotiations. State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced her decision Thursday, a day after Paladino protesters disrupted the school board's latest meeting with calls for his ouster.

Trump supporter who insulted Obamas says it was a ‘mistake’

A businessman who co-chaired the Trump campaign in New York state said Tuesday his recent derogatory statements about President Barack Obama and his wife weren't meant for publication but were nevertheless "inappropriate" and a "mistake." Carl Paladino said he intended his email response to a weekly alternative publication's survey to only go to a couple friends, not the newspaper.

Relax, Carl Paladino Will Continue To Be Booked On Fox As A Moral Scold

Carl Paladino, who was the Republican candidate for governor of New York in 2010 and a co-chair of Donald Trump's campaign in the state this year, is at it again: The Buffalo real estate developer who served as New York co-chair for Donald Trump's campaign said his greatest hopes for 2017 are that President Barack Obama "dies" and that his wife Michelle is "set loose in the outback of Zimbabwe." Paladino: Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford.

Trump co-chair wishes death on Obama, calls 1st lady male

A wealthy businessman who co-chaired president-Elect Donald Trump's state campaign confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that he told an alternative newspaper he hoped President Barack Obama would die from mad cow disease and that the first lady would "return to being a male." Carl Paladino , a millionaire real estate developer who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2010 as a Republican, made the comments in response to a survey by Artvoice , a Buffalo publication that asked local artists, performers and business owners for their New Year's wish list.

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A surrogate for Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump told a group of urban school superintendents on Friday that Trump would seek to do away with "corrupted, incompetent" public school systems in America's cities, replacing them with charter schools and vouchers for private schools. Such an approach would "encourage competition in the marketplace and eventually dismantle the corrupted, incompetent urban school districts that we have in America today," said Carl Paladino, Trump's New York State co-chairman, drawing audible boos from an audience composed largely of people who run the school districts Paladino criticized.

Trump NY co-chair: People won’t allow Ryan’s ‘treachery’

Donald Trump You can't trust polls: Clinton leads, but our polling methods are bunk O'Malley: Trump 'hijacked the Republican Party's nomination' Trump NY co-chair: People won't allow Ryan's 'treachery' MORE 's New York campaign chair said the American people won't let leadership in Washington get away with the "treachery" he's seen this year. Hillary Rodham Clinton You can't trust polls: Clinton leads, but our polling methods are bunk O'Malley: Trump 'hijacked the Republican Party's nomination' Trump NY co-chair: People won't allow Ryan's 'treachery' MORE , this is about the direction this nation is going to take in the next 30 years," Carl Paladino said in an interview with John Catsimatidis that aired Sunday.

Trump’s New York Co-Chair Says ‘He Made a Big Mistake With That Mexican Comment’

Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino-the 2010 GOP candidate for governor and co-chair of Donald Trump's New York campaign-admitted the presumptive Republican presidential nominee erred in some of his comments about Mexican-Americans. Paladino used most of his time at the Upper East Side gathering of the Metropolitan Republican Club attacking 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, House Speaker Paul Ryan, strategist Karl Rove, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox, President Barack Obama, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo-who defeated him six years ago.