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Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?
Photo credit: AP | In this photo provided by New
York Racing Association, Stay Thirsty, left, with Ramon Dominguez
aboard, captures The G1 Cigar Mile horse race at Aqueduct in New York.
(Nov. 24, 2012)
To see what's wrong up in Albany, one only
needs to look at the fact that the Aqueduct Racetrack was closed on
Palm Sunday. On an average Sunday, The Big A has a total handle of
between $6 million and $7 million, of which New York
State takes a percentage.Racing also injects money into the industry, paying jockeys, trainers, grooms, etc. Hundreds of employees -- pari-mutuel clerks and racing officials -- help put on the show, which the state gets a piece of in income taxes.
All of this, worth thousands upon thousands of dollars, was lost because on an antiquated law. Not being allowed to race on Christmas or Easter is OK, but Palm Sunday? The New York Racing Authority races on Thanksgiving, and that's a holiday that the vast majority of us celebrate.
Changing this law would be a slam-dunk revenue creator.
Gerard Bringmann, Patchogue
Editor's note: The writer is both a racing fan and a practicing Catholic.
OPEN ON 1ST PALM SUNDAY, OTB RAKES IN $2M - NY Daily News
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OPEN ON 1ST PALM SUNDAY, OTB RAKES
IN $2M. By Jerry Bossert / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Monday, April
14, 2003, 12:00 AM. Print · Print; Comment ...OTB FACES HAND SLAP OVER PALM - NY Daily News
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Apr 16, 2003 – By Jerry Bossert
/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ... Aqueduct was also closed on Palm
Sunday, but OTB thrived on action from around the
country.
Cuomo Aide Emerges Into Public Eye
Counsel Mylan Denerstein Plays Key Role Behind the Scenes
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By ERICA ORDEN
ALBANY—At a news conference last week to introduce his Women's Equality Act, Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked the people flanking him to introduce themselves.When the turn came for the woman seated next to him, she offered neither her last name nor her title. "Mylan," she said.
Associated Press
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mylan Denerstein, counsel tothe governor, in February in Albany.
For nearly seven years, Mr. Cuomo's counsel, Mylan Denerstein, has been a powerful but largely behind-the-scenes force in both the attorney general's and governor's offices, known to reporters, legislators and others but unfamiliar to the general public.
Now, Ms. Denerstein—the top woman and African-American in Mr. Cuomo's inner circle—has emerged as the primary promoter of one of the governor's most contentious efforts: the push to change state law regarding abortions.
Ms. Denerstein is the chief architect of the Women's Equality Act, the governor's most comprehensive effort to address issues such as abortion, pay equity and human trafficking. Ms. Denerstein spent six months negotiating with dozens of advocacy groups to craft the language in the bill, published three op-eds defending the abortion plank and presented the bill at the news conference.
The proposed legislation represents another attempt by Mr. Cuomo to put his stamp on a burning social issue, and another moment for Ms. Denerstein to be there guiding that effort. She was also instrumental in developing the bill language that helped Mr. Cuomo's gay-marriage legislation survive legal challenges after its passage in 2011.
A former federal prosecutor, Ms. Denerstein occupies a curious role in Mr. Cuomo's inner circle. She is fiercely loyal, as one of the administration's longest-serving senior staffers and one of the few to relocate to Albany (from Brooklyn) after he took office. But she isn't especially deferential to a governor who is known as a top-down manager. "I hate to give him credit—and I do hate to give him credit, I really do," she said in an interview. "But he does have a ton of ideas."
Ms. Denerstein began working for Mr. Cuomo in 2007 as executive deputy attorney general for social justice, and they quickly developed a good-natured banter that often involves Mr. Cuomo suggesting that he is obedient to Ms. Denerstein. "It's our shtick," she said, before correcting herself. "I mean, it's not a shtick, it's just our relationship...Everything is more entertaining when I'm there with him."
She said she has little say in Mr. Cuomo's final determinations concerning policy objectives. "He's a big boy," she said. "And he makes his decisions."
But those who know both said she is someone who can speak frankly with Mr. Cuomo.
"There are a lot of people who work for elected officials who have a need to please them. Mylan is not driven by a need to please the governor," said Steve Cohen, the governor's former chief aide, who worked with Ms. Denerstein in both the governor's and attorney general's offices.
Ms. Denerstein also set herself apart from other Cuomo aides at the women's equality bill news conference, openly tearing up as a young woman recounted her story of being kidnapped at age 9 and forced to work as a sex slave.
"It's not that it's personal, but of course you think about your own family, and I think about my [11-year-old] daughter," said Ms. Denerstein, 45 years old.
Ms. Denerstein said Mr. Cuomo asked her to look into women's equality issues in October after she showed him an American Association of University Women study on the pay disparities between male and female college graduates. In December, he told his aides he wanted to discuss women's issues in his January state of the state address.
Some in the meeting wondered aloud whether it would be wise for Mr. Cuomo to broach matters of abortion and gender-based discrimination, Ms. Denerstein said. She simply shot Mr. Cuomo a look she described as, "Are you trying to tell me something I don't know? Duh."
"If you get down to it, there is a lot of discrimination against women," Ms. Denerstein said. "I don't necessarily mean it's overt, like, 'I don't like women. I won't promote women.' But it's real. And that's how this came about."
Most of the Women's Equality Act hasn't been controversial, but its abortion plank has put Mr. Cuomo on the spot. The bill would change state law to allow abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy to protect a woman's health, a broader exemption than the current law that provides for late-term abortions only if a woman's life is at risk.
The legislation would have little practical effect because federal law already allows such abortions to protect a woman's health and supersedes the more restrictive state law. But the Roman Catholic Church and New York state Senate Republicans have vowed to oppose it.
Senate Majority Coalition Co-leader Dean Skelos said he won't allow a vote on the abortion plank. According to people familiar with the matter, Senate Republicans have already begun mobilizing to pass a bill that excludes the abortion piece.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Skelos has called the provision "a political maneuver designed to curry favor with the extremists who want to expand late-term abortion."
Ms. Denerstein has worked fruitfully with Republicans before. She negotiated same-sex marriage law language that allowed exemptions for religious institutions and an inseverability clause, which said that if any part of the bill was struck down in court, the entire law would be thrown out. Both proved essential to its passage.
She also refused to allow exemptions to expand past a certain point, arguing in a meeting with Mr. Cuomo and senior advisors that doing so would undermine human-rights laws, according to a person present at the meeting. The conversation, this person said, stopped there.
"She has given very candid, very direct advice," Mr. Cohen said. "At times she comes across as a contrarian because she speaks from a well-honed legal perspective. For that reason, when Mylan says you can't do it, it is very hard for anyone else in the room to overcome that opinion."
Write to Erica Orden at erica.orden@wsj.com
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FindLaw provides N.Y. PML. LAW § 105 : NY Code - Section 105: Supplementary regulatory powers of the board for Lawyers, Law Students, etc.N.Y. PML. LAW § 105 : NY Code - Section 105: Supplementary regulatory powers of the boardSearch N.Y. PML. LAW § 105 : NY Code - Section 105: Supplementary regulatory powers of the boardNotwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the board through its rules and regulations or in allotting dates for racing or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting is permitted shall be empowered to: (i) 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 and Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and (ii) fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting. Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law§ 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. |
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