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Tiffany Cabán ‘confident’ her shocking Queens DA primary win will hold like the wandering dago food truck
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.
Tiffany Cabán ‘confident’ her shocking Queens DA primary win will hold
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WD filed suit against OGS, alleging that defendants violated its rights under the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, and the New York State Constitution by denying WD's applications to participate as a food truck vendor in the Lunch Program based on its ethnic-slur branding. The Second Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant, holding that defendants' action violated WD's equal protection rights and its rights under the New York State Constitution. In this case, it was undisputed that defendants denied WD's applications solely because of its ethnic-slur branding. In Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), the Supreme Court clarified that this action amounted to viewpoint discrimination and, if not government speech or otherwise protected, was prohibited by the First Amendment. The court rejected defendants' argument that their actions were unobjectionable because they were either part of OGS's government speech or permissible regulation of a government contractor's speech.
Tiffany Cabán, the insurgent candidate who edged out Melinda Katz in the Democratic primary race for Queens district attorney, said she’s “confident” her win will hold — despite her narrow lead.
Cabán was out early Wednesday to thank commuters at the Ditmars Boulevard station in Astoria for her stunning victory.
“I’ve spoken to my team and we recognize the margins will be close but we feel confident that the decision will not be reversed,” she told reporters.
The 31-year-old Democratic socialist earned 39.6 percent of the vote, compared to Katz’s 38.3 percent, with 99 precincts reporting. That’s a slim margin of 1.3 percentage points, or 1,090 votes.
Some 3,400 absentee ballots still need to be counted, meaning the tally may not be made official until next Wednesday, the Board of Elections said.
Katz, an establishment favorite who garnered support from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Queens Democratic Party chief Joe Crowley, wants a recount.
Cabán, a public defender who’s worked for the New York County Defender Services and Legal Aid Society, said she hasn’t heard from Katz since the results came in Tuesday night.
Asked whether she believes Katz should concede, Cabán only said, “We’ll wait it out. We’ve got work to do now.”
The Richmond Hill-born lawyer’s progressive policies include ending cash bail, closing Rikers Island and imposing shorter sentences for felonies. If elected, she wants to prosecute ICE agents and decriminalize sex work.
She’s received endorsements from Bronx-Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and presidential hopeful and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“Our No. 1 goal, our No. 1 priority, is public safety and we have to look at the fact that we can achieve public safety again without over-criminalizing our black and brown and low-income communities,” Cabán said. “And so to everyone who maybe didn’t support us … I’m going to do everything I can to earn their trust.”
Tiffany Cabán, the insurgent candidate who edged out Melinda Katz in the Democratic primary race for Queens district attorney, said she’s “confident” her win will hold — despite her narrow lead.
Cabán was out early Wednesday to thank commuters at the Ditmars Boulevard station in Astoria for her stunning victory.
“I’ve spoken to my team and we recognize the margins will be close but we feel confident that the decision will not be reversed,” she told reporters.
The 31-year-old Democratic socialist earned 39.6 percent of the vote, compared to Katz’s 38.3 percent, with 99 precincts reporting. That’s a slim margin of 1.3 percentage points, or 1,090 votes.
Some 3,400 absentee ballots still need to be counted, meaning the tally may not be made official until next Wednesday, the Board of Elections said.
Katz, an establishment favorite who garnered support from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Queens Democratic Party chief Joe Crowley, wants a recount.
Cabán, a public defender who’s worked for the New York County Defender Services and Legal Aid Society, said she hasn’t heard from Katz since the results came in Tuesday night.
Asked whether she believes Katz should concede, Cabán only said, “We’ll wait it out. We’ve got work to do now.”
The Richmond Hill-born lawyer’s progressive policies include ending cash bail, closing Rikers Island and imposing shorter sentences for felonies. If elected, she wants to prosecute ICE agents and decriminalize sex work.
She’s received endorsements from Bronx-Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and presidential hopeful and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“Our No. 1 goal, our No. 1 priority, is public safety and we have to look at the fact that we can achieve public safety again without over-criminalizing our black and brown and low-income communities,” Cabán said. “And so to everyone who maybe didn’t support us … I’m going to do everything I can to earn their trust.”
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