Teachout and Andrew Cuomo proudly agree that any voter who believes that Nassau OTB should close based on the religious preference of Andrew Cuomo and Fordham Law School can go to HELL!
Members of the Eastern Orthodox Church are a silent minority of no moment to the State of New York. Thus Nassau OTB, a..... benefit corporation, may close on Roman Catholic Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday. If you disagree, go on a crusade, or bring lawsuit asserting the violation of rights secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3. You must be able to bet and/or work any day of the year that you wish.
Is it any wonder that Ed Mangano is short? You will pay with camera fines et al.
Wanting to work and/or bet is treason?
ALBANY
— A New York State appeals court ruled on Wednesday that Zephyr
Teachout, a law professor who is running against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in
the Democratic primary, can remain on the Sept. 9 ballot.
Mr. Cuomo’s campaign, which had sought to disqualify her, said it would not appeal.
The
campaign had questioned whether Ms. Teachout, who teaches at Fordham
Law School, met the state’s five-year residency requirement to be
governor, arguing that in recent years, she had intended for Vermont,
where she grew up, to be her legal residence. It cited a variety of
records in which Ms. Teachout used a Vermont address.
But a State Supreme Court justice rebuffed the challenge last week. Mr. Cuomo’s campaign appealed that ruling, and the appeal was argued in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
In its two-page decision
upholding the ruling, a four-judge panel of the Appellate Division’s
Second Department found that although Ms. Teachout had lived in multiple
residences in New York City and had maintained “close connections” to
Vermont in the past five years, “that is nothing more than an ambiguity
in the residency calculus.”
The
court ruled that Mr. Cuomo’s campaign faced the burden of establishing
“by clear and convincing evidence” that Ms. Teachout did not meet the
residency requirement, and that the lower court’s decision rejecting the
challenge was “warranted by the facts.”
“With
this frivolous lawsuit behind us, I’m hopeful the governor will now
agree to debate,” Ms. Teachout said in a statement shortly after the
decision was announced. “We have very different visions for where we
want to take the state.”
A
spokesman for Mr. Cuomo’s campaign, Peter E. Kauffmann, declined to
comment on the latest ruling beyond saying the campaign would not
appeal.
On
Wednesday, NY1 and Time Warner Cable News in Albany announced that they
had invited Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Teachout to an hour-long debate on Sept.
2.
Mr.
Cuomo, who is generally popular with Democrats and has an enormous
fund-raising advantage, is not viewed as being in any danger of losing
the primary. A statewide poll
conducted from Aug. 14 to 17 by Quinnipiac University found that 85
percent of Democratic voters had not heard enough about Ms. Teachout to
form an opinion.
But
Ms. Teachout, who has written frequently about political corruption,
could at least find a receptive audience on that issue. Mr. Cuomo’s
handling of an anticorruption commission that he created but shut down
abruptly is now under investigation by federal prosecutors, and it
appears to have prompted concerns among voters, too.
In
a poll conducted by Quinnipiac in February, before Mr. Cuomo shut down
the commission, 52 percent of voters approved of the governor’s handling
of ethics in government, compared with 31 percent who disapproved. But
in the new poll, 39 percent approved, compared with 50 percent who
disapproved.
Nassau County faces $71.6 million deficit
Budget Review director Maurice Chalmers said in a
report that although County Executive Edward Mangano has taken steps to
increase revenues and cut expenses, "the county has lost its financial
flexibility to absorb uncertainties." (Credit: Howard Schnapp)
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The projected deficit does not include the estimated cost of $70 million in commercial tax refunds, which the county traditionally has paid by borrowing, according to a midyear report by the legislature's bipartisan Office of Budget Review.
"County finances are at a crossroad," said Budget Review director Maurice Chalmers in the 9-page report. Although County Executive Edward Mangano has taken steps to increase revenues and cut expenses, Chalmers wrote "the county has lost its financial flexibility to absorb uncertainties."
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Budget Review's projected $71.6 million deficit comes after County Comptroller George Maragos predicted a $77 million year-end gap while the county's control board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, warned that $133 million is "at risk" in this year's budget.
NIFA in May approved new contracts for four of the county's five unions -- and is poised to approve a fifth deal for correction officers -- that ended the wage freeze in return for concessions expected to save millions of future dollars. Although Mangano moved to cover immediate costs by raising fees and installing speed cameras in school zones, the Office of Budget Review predicts salary expenses will exceed the budget by $39.3 million this year.
Meanwhile, county sales tax collections fell 9 percent for the first six months of 2014, leading Budget Review to predict a $70 million shortfall by year's end.
Chalmers, who could not be reached Wednesday, urged county officials in his report to "implement long-term solutions that lead to a structurally balanced budget."
Tim Sullivan, Mangano's deputy county executive for finance, said yesterday, "The administration is preparing a budget for 2015 that will include corrective actions to address the sales tax shortage." Mangano must submit his proposed 2015 budget by Sept. 15.
NIFA chairman Jon Kaiman, who was at the county executive building yesterday, said via email: "Wage increases are being covered as per our agreement with the county. I have every expectation that those costs will, in fact, be met. Sales tax shortfalls must also be addressed. I've met with the county executive on this in regard to putting forward a plan to address this situation."
But Legis. Judy Jacobs (D-Woodbury), who was the legislature's presiding officer when NIFA was formed by the state in 2000 to be Nassau's fiscal watchdog, said she wants NIFA members to "remember what NIFA was actually created for. NIFA has to do its job also. We don't need a wish list and a 'maybe' list. We need positive, provable solutions."
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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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