New York Today: Who Will Be the Next Attorney General?another esq who foes not know that ny pml sec 109 is unconstitutional and or does not apply to nassau otb. the emperor has no clothes, the prostitute is optional
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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.
Good morning on this roasting Thursday.
The clock to the primary is ticking: We’re exactly one week out.
And with that, four candidates to be New York’s next attorney general — all of whom you’ll see on the ballot next Thursday, Sept. 13 — will face off tonight in their final debate.
Our Albany bureau chief, Jesse McKinley, gave us the rundown of what’s at stake in the race and why the post is so vital — particularly now.
“The traditional purpose of the attorney general is to defend the state in the legal arena,” Mr. McKinley told us. “As we’ve crept into modernity, that mandate has broadened with the political ambitions of whoever has held that office.”
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(Eliot Spitzer used the power to prosecute cases on Wall Street, for example; Eric T. Schneiderman opted to dig into the activities of President Trump.)
“So it can really be a way of investigating almost anything that touches on New York,” Mr. McKinley added. “Whoever is chosen will have their own viewpoint on what the office is supposed to do and what it can do — it really is a litmus test as to the interest of the attorney general.”
The Democratic contenders are Letitia James, the New York City public advocate, who was endorsed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and is backed by the Democratic Party in New York; Zephyr Teachout, a lawyer who was endorsed by The New York Times and Chirlane McCray; Sean Patrick Maloney, a congressman from the Hudson Valley; and Leecia Eve, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton and Mr. Cuomo.
(Barbara Underwood, who was appointed attorney general in May after Mr. Schneiderman resigned over accusations that he physically abused several women, is not running.)
“It’ll really be a test of how powerful insurgent candidates can be,” Mr. McKinley said. “There’s no question that Tish is the establishment, and no question that Zephyr has run way to the left of her and is banking on progressives, die-hards, ‘Berniecrats’ — however you want to put it — coming out in droves to put her over the top.”
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One shared target, however, is Mr. Trump. Each of the candidates has pledged to follow Mr. Schneiderman’s lead in taking on the Trump administration, giving the New York race heightened relevance nationwide.
“In the legal sense,” Mr. McKinley said, “it’s important because ongoing cases against the Trump administration, and against Donald Trump personally, in some cases mirror and in some cases are ancillary to investigations that are underway on a federal level as well.”
Mr. Trump can grant pardons only for federal crimes.
The winner of the Democratic primary will face the Republican candidate, Keith Wofford, in the Nov. 6 general election. A victory in November by Ms. James, Ms. Teachout or Ms. Eve would mark the first time a woman was elected to the position.
Tonight’s debate at the Cooper Union in the East Village will be moderated by Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan, and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer.
The event is sold out but will be broadcast live on WNYC (93.9 FM and AM 820) and livestreamed on the Cooper Union’s Facebook page and YouTube page, and on CAFE.com.
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