John Tedesco, the Republican nominee for state Schools Superintendent, is denying it was inappropriate for him to have taken campaign contributions from officers of a company that does business with the Wake County school system.

At last week's Wake school board meeting, Democratic activist Greg Flynn accused Tedesco, a Wake school board member since 2009, of a "breach of trust" for having taken the donations and voted for the contract with the company.

Tedesco said today that "we don't believe we did anything wrong" when his campaign accepted around $275 in campaign contributions from those people. But Tedesco said he'd be willing to return the money if he got legal advice that it was inappropriate for him to keep the "nominal amount."