Andrew Cuomo teaches

the almighty, that Andrew Cuomo, praised be he, is the legal scholar, who executes non believers, by closing Nassau OTB, only on holy days, when the almighty, blessed be he, Andrew Cuomo, may be in Church, and ignores the holy day of the same names, Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday, when infidels of the Eastern Orthodox Church may celebrate the same holy days. NY Const Art 1, Sec 3 is proudly ignored by all the horse betting lawyers of the state of NY and the non horse betting lawyers of the State of NY.

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Either way, judge's ruling won't end Teachout story line

August 10, 2014 5:52 PM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

Fordham University law professor and liberal activist Zephyr Teachout speaks to supporters outside Brooklyn Borough Hall on Thursday, Aug 7, 2014. (Credit: AP / Peter Morgan)

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With State Supreme Court Justice Edgar Walker due to rule Monday on whether long-shot candidate Zephyr Rain Teachout qualifies for the Democratic primary ballot for governor, incumbent Andrew M. Cuomo's heavily favored campaign for a second term reaches an interesting passage.
Either way, the decision doesn't end the story line. One or two rounds of appeals are possible from the losing side, regardless of whether Walker finds Teachout met the five-year New York residency requirement to run. And if the Fordham Law School professor makes the ballot, Cuomo operatives could still choose to draw on the two-day trial late last week for campaign fodder against Teachout, 42, who attacked Cuomo in the recent tempest over his defunct anti-corruption commission.
On Friday, in Walker's Brooklyn courtroom, pro-Cuomo attorney Martin Connor had Teachout acknowledge on the stand that, on a form renewing her Vermont drivers' license on June 13, 2011, she checked the box that deemed her a Green Mountain Stater. And on June 3, 2013, when she bought someone's used Honda for $4,500, she paid a 6-percent sales tax to Vermont as if a resident there.
Connor was arguing that these facts and others were "evidence of her intent," as a matter of the courts' election residency standard, "to not consider New York her full-time residence." Speaking hypothetically to the narrow legal point, Walker said from the bench, "she may have lied for purposes of tax avoidance, or whatever . . . " Connor replied that he'd take the statements "at face value" and wasn't accusing her of perjury.
Teachout, however, could make populist hay of what she was compelled to detail in court. She recalled Friday she arrived in New York in 2006 with "three or four suitcases and a lot of student debt." She lived in a handful of different places -- one with appliances in disrepair, part of what she called a "pretty typical experience."
Last week, after she called the suit a "fishing expedition," a Cuomo ally said: "New York State has a residency requirement to run for governor. The law matters. I would expect a [legal] scholar to appreciate that."
Sometimes in a Democratic primary, even a lopsided win can drive negative spin. In 2000 Mark S. McMahon, an city-based orthopedic surgeon, got 18 percent in the September primary against soon-to-be-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her critics said it showed a problem with nearly one in five of her own party's voters. She was elected that November, with 55 percent.

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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.


 And the former jockey and journalist who is now an ordained minister and chaplain should express his opinion on NY PML Sec 109 and why New Yorkers should not be free to do as they please whenever they please eg bet at Nassau OTB every day of the year.

08/11/2014 3:23PM

Donnally to speak at N.Y. Chaplaincy

Eddie Donnally, the former jockey and journalist who is now an ordained minister and chaplain, will be the keynote speaker at the New York Chaplaincy Fundraiser on Wednesday in the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.,according to the organization.
Donnally is the author of an autobiography, “Ride the White Horse,” chronicling his racing career, substance-abuse problems, and pursuit of a career in ministry. Tickets to the fundraiser cost $100.
The New York Chaplaincy provides care to backstretch workers at New York racetracks.