Ex-candidate for NY governor survives school board challenge
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A wealthy developer and Trump campaign co-chair in New York has been re-elected to a school board by narrowly defeating his 18-year-old student challenger.
Unofficial results show Carl Paladino beating high school student Austin Harig by a little more than 100 votes out of about 3,000 cast in the Buffalo school board race Tuesday.
Harig took on Paladino despite Paladino's experience as a former candidate for New York governor and current campaign co-chair for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
In this April 27, 2016 photo, Austin Harig, 18, speaks to reporters in a hallway outside of a Board of Education meeting in Buffalo, N.Y., on April 27, 2016. The high school senior is challenging millionaire businessman and former candidate for governor Carl Paladino, who is helping to run Donald Trump's New York campaign, for his seat on the school board. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
Paladino won his first three-year term on the school board in a landslide in 2013, becoming part of a new voting majority. Two other members of that majority were defeated Tuesday.
In this April 1, 2014 photo, Donald Trump, left, is joined by Carl Paladino during a gun rights rally at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y. Paladino, who is currently who is helping to run Donald Trump's New York campaign, is being challenged for his seat on the Buffalo school board by an 18-year-old high school senior. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
