If Teamsters Local 802 and its soda freedom fighting president richard sheehan believed in freedom, eg freedom of religion, they would see that Nassau OTB does not close on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday. The emperor has no clothes when he talks about freedom and government just like his comrade Kevin McCaffrey, President of Teamsters Local 707 which represents Nassau OTB employees and allows discrimination by the State and the employer based upon religion. It goes without saying that bettors want to bet at Nassau OTB on any day of the year when there is a race running somewhere in the US that is of interest to them.
Soda freedom fighters are intoxicated by their free lawyer. Bettors can go to hell and drink Big Gulps.
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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.
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