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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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North Carolina lawyer files complaint against Cuomo's ads

Says they violate Hatch Act designed to separate government, politics

By Rick Karlin

Published 6:58 pm, Monday, July 25, 2016

 

 
 
 
 
 

Albany

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development ads have been criticized in the past for their cost but now a North Carolina lawyer has filed a complaint with federal authorities as well as New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics charging the governor with violations of the Hatch Act.

Robert F. Orr, a former judge in the Tar Heel state and an attorney, alleges that the ads, which talk up New York's diversity, also reference the controversial ban that North Carolina put in place against transgender people using public restrooms of their choice.

That reference, said Orr, is a "transparent attempt to criticize, interfere and affect the impending North Carolina elections."

The Hatch Act bans office holders from using their authority, or working in an official capacity to try and influence the outcome of an election.

Orr contended that Cuomo, through the ads, is opposing North Carolina's GOP Gov. Pat McCrorywho signed the bathroom bill and who is up for reelection this fall.

In addition to JCOPE, Orr filed his complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.

The complaints will go to a Democratic White House and New York's JCOPE.

Cuomo spokesman John Kelly described it as frivolous and delusional.

"The delusion of North Carolina's leadership is boundless. We reject their sanctimonious discrimination and these frivolous complaints," Kelly said in an email.

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