Troglodyte Teabagger crushed by Andrew Cuomo in gubernatorial race wins school board seat

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Tea party favorite Carl Paladino, the unsuccessful 2010 Republican nominee for New York governor, won a landslide victory Tuesday night for a seat on the Buffalo Board of Education.

Paladino easily defeated Adrian Fitzgerald Harris 79 percent to 20 percent to capture a seat representing the south Buffalo neighborhood. The move comes 2 1/2 years after Paladino lost the race for the governor's mansion to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) by 29 percentage points after upsetting New York's Republican establishment in the GOP primary.

Paladino, a millionaire developer, entered the school board race in January vowing to "destroy" the nine-member board. He has long been at odds with board members, filing a lawsuit against the board last year to challenge the appointment of a new schools superintendent. He said he wants to fire the school system's entire top leadership and has challenged the Buffalo teachers union.

Paladino has described African American women school board members as a "parasitic black sisterhood." In 2010, the Buffalo Common Council considered a resolution condemning Paladino for racial insensitivity. .................(more)

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1. Poor Buffalo