The NYSUT Action Center has sent the following message:
"Racist Carl Paladino has no business setting education policy for our kids.
As a member of the Buffalo School Board - in a majority minority school district, no less! - Carl Paladino has proven time and again that his own biases won't allow the business of that board to proceed without distraction. He clearly lacks the moral authority to be involved in setting education policy for our children, and it is time for him to be removed from the school board once and for all.
Carl Paladino's most recent comments should be the absolute last straw. In an interview with Artvoice about his hopes for the coming year, Carl Paladino gleefully wished death to outgoing President Obama, suggested that First Lady Michelle Obama move to Africa to live in the company of a gorilla, and fantasized about the decapitation of another long-time African American public servant and respected civic leader.