your friend andrew cuomo appears to be an obstinate white biggot. perhaps you can explsin to him that the determination of "easter sunday" is not s job for his ilk.
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.
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NEW YORK - New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation has decided to keep its betting parlors closed this Easter Sunday, seven days after the company disregarded a warning from state regulators not to open on Palm Sunday.
New York City OTB officials said they made the decision not to open on Sunday after taking criticism from state regulators about the Palm Sunday opening. State law makes it illegal for any racing association to conduct parimutuel wagering on Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas. The law does not specifically mention offtrack betting companies.
NYCOTB, which is owned by the city, opened 37 of its 75 parlors on Palm Sunday and took in approximately $1.7 million in bets.
Michael Hoblock, the chairman of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, said that the board most likely will not decide on a punishment for the OTB's Palm Sunday opening until next week. State law allows the board to impose $5,000 fines for violations.
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