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Pension plans in critical and endangered status are required to adopt a plan aimed at ... If you still have questions contact the Department of Labors Employee ..... Retail Bakers Pension Trust Fund · Road Carriers Local 707 Pension Plan ...It is clear to many New York High School Students that the term Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday does not define one and only one day in April 2012.
It is appalling that with tracks running all across the United States every day of the year that New York OTBs are not open to take bettors bets before the OTB goes bankrupt, files for bankruptcy, and/or union leaders talk public finances to members without providing them with a copy of the public financial records so that they can judge the state of affairs for themselves. Even NFL Players know to say show me the books.
Andrew Cuomo can't/won't even say to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman , FREE OPINION , please. See sample draft request below.
Updated: Wed., Mar. 21, 2012, 9:03 AM Union ‘buy’ laws attack
Last Updated: 9:03 AM, March 21, 2012
Posted: 12:35 AM, March 21, 2012
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo yesterday suggested New York’s biggest state employee union could be buying votes by freezing campaign contributions to lawmakers who supported a bill cutting pension benefits for future government workers.
“If you are linking political contributions to a specific vote, you may get a call from the attorney general or the district attorney or JCOPE” — the state’s new ethics enforcement agency, said Cuomo.
“There should be no campaign contributions for specific votes,” Cuomo — a former attorney general who warred with labor unions this month over his Tier VI pension proposal — added during an appearance on Albany’s Talk 1300 AM radio.
Civil Service Employees Association president Danny Donohue said he suspended all political contributions and endorsements on Monday as “a direct result of the political deal between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislative leadership, Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats, trading the future retirement security of working New Yorkers for legislative redistricting lines.”
Asked if Donohue’s move amounted to buying votes — a practice prohibited by state law — Cuomo said, “That’s exactly right.”
CSEA didn’t sound worried.
“Consistency doesn’t seem to be Governor Cuomo’s strong suit,” said union spokesman Stephen Madarasz.
He noted Cuomo’s praise for Mayor Bloomberg, who essentially promised last month to support candidates who backed the governor’s pension plan.
Meanwhile, two Republican state senators told union lobbyists this week that they had no choice but to vote for the pension deal, which the Legislature approved last week.
An attendee at the AFL-CIO’s weekly meeting of labor lobbyists said Sens. Martin Golden of Brooklyn and Joseph Robach of Rochester explained their votes by saying that “the train was already headed down the tracks and couldn’t be stopped.”
Golden and Robach told the umbrella labor group’s lobbyists that it was “something they had to do,” said the attendee, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The source said the senators’ unspoken implication was that they had to provide Senate Majority Dean Skelos (R-LI) with their votes for pension Tier VI in exchange for Cuomo’s approval of the Senate’s and Assembly’s redistricting plan.
Republicans hold a bare majority of 32 seats in the 62-seat Senate and needed every GOP vote to pass Tier VI.
The two senators claimed “they tried their best and got what they could” to soften the final Tier VI deal, the source said.
Cuomo estimates the deal will save $80 billion over 30 years, but he had proposed a tougher, $113 billion savings plan.
Neither senator returned calls for comment yesterday. AFL-CIO spokesman Ryan Delgado would not comment, calling the meeting internal.
ekriss@nypost.com
“If you are linking political contributions to a specific vote, you may get a call from the attorney general or the district attorney or JCOPE” — the state’s new ethics enforcement agency, said Cuomo.
“There should be no campaign contributions for specific votes,” Cuomo — a former attorney general who warred with labor unions this month over his Tier VI pension proposal — added during an appearance on Albany’s Talk 1300 AM radio.
Civil Service Employees Association president Danny Donohue said he suspended all political contributions and endorsements on Monday as “a direct result of the political deal between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislative leadership, Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats, trading the future retirement security of working New Yorkers for legislative redistricting lines.”
Asked if Donohue’s move amounted to buying votes — a practice prohibited by state law — Cuomo said, “That’s exactly right.”
CSEA didn’t sound worried.
“Consistency doesn’t seem to be Governor Cuomo’s strong suit,” said union spokesman Stephen Madarasz.
He noted Cuomo’s praise for Mayor Bloomberg, who essentially promised last month to support candidates who backed the governor’s pension plan.
Meanwhile, two Republican state senators told union lobbyists this week that they had no choice but to vote for the pension deal, which the Legislature approved last week.
An attendee at the AFL-CIO’s weekly meeting of labor lobbyists said Sens. Martin Golden of Brooklyn and Joseph Robach of Rochester explained their votes by saying that “the train was already headed down the tracks and couldn’t be stopped.”
Golden and Robach told the umbrella labor group’s lobbyists that it was “something they had to do,” said the attendee, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The source said the senators’ unspoken implication was that they had to provide Senate Majority Dean Skelos (R-LI) with their votes for pension Tier VI in exchange for Cuomo’s approval of the Senate’s and Assembly’s redistricting plan.
Republicans hold a bare majority of 32 seats in the 62-seat Senate and needed every GOP vote to pass Tier VI.
The two senators claimed “they tried their best and got what they could” to soften the final Tier VI deal, the source said.
Cuomo estimates the deal will save $80 billion over 30 years, but he had proposed a tougher, $113 billion savings plan.
Neither senator returned calls for comment yesterday. AFL-CIO spokesman Ryan Delgado would not comment, calling the meeting internal.
ekriss@nypost.com
Dear Attorney General Eric Schneiderman:
The Bettors of the State of New York and the employees of the remaining OTBs, public benefit corporations, have no standing to ask for your Opinion to the following simple questions with seemingly obvious answers::
1. Will the Attorney General defend the constitutionality of NY PML Sec 105?
2. Does NY PML Sec 105 apply to Nassau OTB?
3. Does NY PML Sec 105 violate the rights of New York Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3?
4. Is NY PML Sec 105 vague, indefinite and/or overly broad as the term "Easter Sunday" does not define one and only one Sunday in all years (see eg Gregorian and Julian Calendars)? See article from the Wall Street Journal on Calendars below.
I hope that you will sua sponte issue an Opinion as to the above so that bettors may bet, workers may work or not as they wish, and the State and its subdivisions make money. There are tracks running all across the United States every day of the year that bettors want to bet. Track calendars may be found at eg www.ntra.com. The OTBs also sell New York Lottery tickets which are drawn every day of the year. The OTBs also cash non IRS Lottery tickets in cash for any sum, a convenience for many Lotto Players.
It is critical in these current time that the OTBs are open when customers want to bet. I believe that your Opinion will belatedly validate the actions of New York City OTB taken on the advice of its Counsel in 2003.
Sincerely yours,
The Bettors of the State of New York and the employees of the remaining OTBs, public benefit corporations, have no standing to ask for your Opinion to the following simple questions with seemingly obvious answers::
1. Will the Attorney General defend the constitutionality of NY PML Sec 105?
2. Does NY PML Sec 105 apply to Nassau OTB?
3. Does NY PML Sec 105 violate the rights of New York Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3?
4. Is NY PML Sec 105 vague, indefinite and/or overly broad as the term "Easter Sunday" does not define one and only one Sunday in all years (see eg Gregorian and Julian Calendars)? See article from the Wall Street Journal on Calendars below.
I hope that you will sua sponte issue an Opinion as to the above so that bettors may bet, workers may work or not as they wish, and the State and its subdivisions make money. There are tracks running all across the United States every day of the year that bettors want to bet. Track calendars may be found at eg www.ntra.com. The OTBs also sell New York Lottery tickets which are drawn every day of the year. The OTBs also cash non IRS Lottery tickets in cash for any sum, a convenience for many Lotto Players.
It is critical in these current time that the OTBs are open when customers want to bet. I believe that your Opinion will belatedly validate the actions of New York City OTB taken on the advice of its Counsel in 2003.
Sincerely yours,
Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m - New York Daily News
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