Megyn Kelly out at NBC after defending blackface but before announcing if she believes in Andrew cuomo or ny const art 1 sec 3 and the freedom to work and or bet at nassau otb run by the heir to the ambassador to trinididad and tobago. help burn ny pml sec 109
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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.
Megyn Kelly is without a job following controversial comments she made this week.
It took just 48 hours for NBC to ax Kelly, who has a history of making inflammatory comments, a source told Page Six.
On Thursday, instead of airing a new episode of “Megyn Kelly Today,” NBC aired a rerun from August 31.
Another insider noted, “Not being on air is the kiss of death!”
On Tuesday, the former Fox News host apologized to her staff in an email and on Wednesday, she made a public apology on-air.
Before things began to fall apart for Kelly, an insider added that her days at the network were numbered as the were murmurs she could be let go by the year’s end.
“She’s lawyered up, multi year contract,” another insider added. “It’s complicated. Now is as good of time as any to get rid of her.”
When she joined NBC in 2017, she was given a $20 million a year contract. It seems the network will now pay out the remainder of the contract totaling $69 million, reports The Daily Mail.
In 2013, Kelly once again ruffled feathers after she went on air declaring that Santa Claus and Jesus were both white men.
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