"The Board of Education's action today is certainly not an illustration of a profile in courage or leadership," he said. "City of Buffalo council members, legislators, the mayor and county executive have joined in the chorus of those board members seeking my removal so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teachers' contract or their complicity in trying to unfairly settle the board's $450 million lawsuit against Lou Ciminelli for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo. I will fight to the end to continue to expose the corruption."