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Sep 18, 2011 – Church of Our Saviour, New York City. dark-red-line-500x1.jpg christ_pantokratorDear Father George F Rutler:
Please help see that workers and bettors are free to do as they please. My employer Nassau OTB, only closes on Roman Catholic holy days, and not Greek Orthodox holy days. The NY State Senate candidate Wendy E Long Esq. teaches at your church. I have repeatedly petitioned the New York State Racing and Wagering Board to ask the Attorney General for a Formal Opinion.
Sincerely yours,
I hereby Petition the New York Racing and Wagering Board to immediately ask Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for a FORMAL OPINION to answer the following questions:
1. Does NY PML Sec 109 formerly Sec 105 apply to my employer Nassau OTB?
2. Is NY PML Sec 109 formerly Sec 105 constitutionally defensible?
3. Does NY PML Sec 109 formerly Sec 105 violate the rights of Nassau County Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3?
4. Is NY PML Sec 109 formerly Sec 105 vague, indefinite and or overly broad as the Gregorian and Julian Calendars do not define the same Sunday to be Easter Sunday in all years?
With tracks running all across the United States every day of the year, there is no reason bettors should not be able to bet the same number of days that they can buy a New York Lottery ticket, every day of the year. The slot machines in NY (aka VLTs) are open every day of the year. Nassau OTB sells and cashes New York Lottery tickets.
Sincerely yours,
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Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy, if you give me a mailing address.
Claude Solnik
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m - New York Daily News
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Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m. BY JERRY BOSSERT DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER. Monday, April 14, 2003. New York City Off-Track Betting ... Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m
New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday.
Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday.
While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so.
"We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business."
Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida.
Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday.
While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so.
"We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business."
Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida.
GOP candidates ready for Senate primary
Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in file photo. (Feb. 24, 2012)
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U.S. Senate race contributions on LIWith surveys showing no clear favorite, U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R-Rockaway Point) is arguing that he's the most electable Republican and the only one who can win the support of moderate Democrats. Lawyer Wendy Long is stressing her adherence to conservative tenets and endorsements from anti-tax activists. And Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos is mixing his conservative beliefs with his business background and immigrant-success story.
With the primary set for Tuesday, "it's anybody's ballgame," said Republican political consultant Michael Dawidziak.
"This is like a football game that gets decided in the fourth quarter -- because there has been not much happening in the first three quarters," Dawidziak said, adding it's probably too late in the race to make an effective advertising blitz, so the outcome will hinge on some old-fashioned campaign techniques.
"Whoever has a good mail [outreach] program, a good phone program, is probably going be the person to win this," Dawidziak said.
Similar issues
So far, the three candidates have made only slight impressions about what distinguishes them from their rivals, analysts said.
In the one debate during the race, the candidates said they wanted to improve the business climate and reduce spending. They all said they would favor natural gas drilling in New York.
Turner differed from the others in refusing to pledge to never put tax hikes "on the table" in congressional budget discussions. Also unlike the others, he said he wouldn't favor a proposal to require states to honor concealed weapon permits from other states.
"I have emphasized that politics is the art of the practical," Turner said in a later interview. "We have to get things done. I'm a practical business type."
Turner is a former television executive who splashed on the political scene by pulling a huge upset to replace disgraced U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner in a heavily Democratic Brooklyn-Queens district. He's trying to use that win to persuade Republicans to back him.
"I'm telling people . . . you need to do well in (New York) City and you need to bring some Democrats across," Turner said.
He acknowledged that's counter to the approach of Maragos and Long, who are trying to position themselves as the most conservative, and that it might hurt him in the primary.
"I think in a primary, ideology might be more important than some practicality," Turner said. "But we have to keep our eyes the big prize here."
Turner spent 40 years in television, serving as chief executive of Pearson Plc as well as other companies. The shows he was involved in bringing to air include "Baywatch," "Family Feud" and "The Rush Limbaugh Show."
Long has the endorsement of the state Conservative Party and anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, as well as the most endorsements from Republican county leaders and elected officials. She has signed Norquist's anti-tax pledge in regard to reducing the federal deficit.
"You know where I stand on this: I just think that we can't ever put those on the table," Long said to Turner during the debate. "Your willingness to put them on the table sounds to me sort of like the policies of Barack Obama and Kirsten Gillibrand."
Same-sex marriage, taxes
In a segment of "Yes or No" questions, Long was the lone one of the three to say she wouldn't attend a same-sex wedding on principle -- although Long and Turner also said they opposed New York's gay marriage law.
Long has made appearances on Fox News and conservative radio talk shows. A Manhattan resident, she was born in New Hampshire and graduated from Dartmouth College. There, she worked on the Dartmouth Review, described as a controversial, sharp-elbowed conservative student newspaper.
She worked for two Republican senators in Washington, then became a private attorney, working as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas along the way. She later headed the Judicial Confirmation Network, which promotes conservative judges for the U.S. Supreme Court and opposes liberal candidates.
Like Turner, Maragos touts his decade of business experience -- 35 years in finance and banking. He said he provides the best "vision of what needs to be done to fix our economy, to put people back to work."
He calls for a simplified tax code, one that lowers corporate taxes -- but doesn't let companies avoid paying altogether as some do now. He said the nation needs to achieve "energy independence" within 10 years.
Born in Greece, Maragos' family moved to Montreal when he was nine. After college, he came to work in the United States and became a citizen in 1985. He led his own financial services company for 20 years before being elected Nassau County comptroller in 2009.
A Siena College poll taken just before the debate showed Turner with the support of 16 percent of Republican voters, Long with 11 percent and Maragos 3 percent. But the poll didn't track "likely voters," a more reliable measure. And because 70 percent are undecided makes predictions risky, pollsters said.
That also makes each candidate's effort during the final days the most important factor.
"It's all about getting out the vote," Maragos said, "and that's what we're focused on, with a grassroots network we've built throughout the state."
* § 109. Supplementary regulatory powers of the commission.
Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the commission
through its rules and regulations or in allotting dates for racing,
simulcasting or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting
is permitted shall be authorized to:
1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on any or
all dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of
December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of December twenty-fifth,
Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and
2. fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting.
* NB Effective October 1, 2012
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