losing nassau otb on sunday april 1 2018
may he burn like nyc otb, the dearly departed see ny const art 1 sec 3

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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.

let us not forget how andrew cuomo beat on the wanderind dago food truck because he is el pico

Cuomo snags endorsement from New York's Daily News

BY MEGAN KELLER - 09/06/18 05:45 PM EDT 9

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) snagged an endorsement from The Daily News Thursday as he battles challenger Cynthia Nixon in next week's gubernatorial primary.

The endorsement is Cuomo's second from a major New York newspaper this week after one from The New York Times Tuesday.

"Cuomo has more than earned a ticket to the general election. His eight years have notched major accomplishments that would be the envy of many of his predecessors," The Daily News' Editorial Board wrote.

The newspaper's editorial also credited Cuomo with a number of accomplishment, including a push to legalize gay marriage and increasing the minimum wage.

"Once more, with feeling. The Daily News endorses Andrew Cuomo in next Thursday's primary," the Daily News wrote.

But the editorial board also listed some criticism of Cuomo including the hesitancy to use "all his powers of political persuasion to fix" corruption in New York, while also adding that "his ego interferes with his effectiveness."

Nonetheless, The Daily News credited Cuomo for being a "pragmatist" who's "effective," while noting, "pragmatism is not a word in challenger Cynthia Nixon’s vocabulary."

"While very smart, Nixon is disqualified by proposals so doctrinaire and simplistic, spending demands so profligate, that they feel cooked up in the first meeting of a college Democratic socialists club," the paper's editorial board wrote.

New York is due to hold its primary on Sept. 13, with previous polls showing Cuomo leading Nixon by a substantial margin.