do you want to know what nassau otb employees think of kevin mccaffrey ask the,.
if they are not in a talkative mood, look at mccaffrey's past union election results when nassau otb employees voted overwhelmingly to send him packing
joseph cairo appears to leave the operations of nassau otb yo srthur walsh, acting alone or in concert, maintaing an aur of detachment, deniability etc
jay javobs and joseph cairo have done little or nothing to see that the employees if nassau otb who put in an honest days work for an honest days pay are treated fairly.
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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.
jay jacobs and joseph cairo agree that st pauls congregants including the one that works for nassau otb do nothave rights pursuant to ny const art 1 sec 3 many past and present nassau otb employees come from baldwin, but november is november, and nassau otb employees have much to say about nassau otb that is not being addressed or heard while arthur walsh esq deals with kevin mccaffreyto the detriment of otb workers
Nassau County Republican Committee Chair Joseph Cairo speaks to media in Westbury on Nov. 6, 2018. Photo Credit: Danielle Silverman
Erin King Sweeney, who is soon to leave Hempstead's Town Board, and soon to move to Charlotte, North Carolina, was back on Long Island last week.
She returned for, among other things, her Social Security card.
Because without it — or more specifically, without U.S.-government-issued proof of her full name — King Sweeney can't get a North Carolina driver's license.
She'd tried, but a government-issued ID with her middle initial — instead of her fully spelled-out middle name — didn't cut it at North Carolina's DMV.
"I had a photo of my Social Security card," she said last Friday, "but that wasn't going to work, either."
The last few weeks have been a rush for King Sweeney — daughter of Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford), and, for a time, generation-next in a nascent King political dynasty — and her family.
They've found a house, along with a place to board the family's horse, she said.
Still, all the while, King Sweeney said, she kept the plan to follow her husband to a new job in North Carolina mostly to herself.
That changed last week, with word that, because of the move, King Sweeney, leader of Hempstead's majority-Repubican council, would not seek election to a second term.
That made her a short-timer mere weeks before the Nov. 2 general election, which instantly raised the question of whether King Sweeney would serve out the remainder of her term.
"I am going to resign on Monday," King Sweeney said.
With that — bam! — the race to find King Sweeney's replacement in Hempstead, where the majority-Republican board and Democratic Supervisor Laura Gillen have been at odds, over almost everything, for almost two years, was blown wide open.
But get this:
Joseph Cairo, Nassau's Republican Party chairman, believes the GOP should leave King Sweeney's post vacant until voters choose her replacement.
Wait, what?!?!
Cairo, breaking with decades of GOP practice in Hempstead, the party's longtime stronghold, does not believe the board should appoint King Sweeney's successor before the election.
"I haven't discussed this with the [GOP majority on the] town board," Cairo said in an interview last Friday. "But from a political point of view, I think that it is too short a period of time to appoint somebody."
Traditionally, on matters such as filling vacancies on boards or other elected bodies, the recommendations from the county party chair — Republican and Democrat — carry the day.
Cairo's position, however, breaks with the Nassau GOP's history of moving elected officials through "the chairs" — that is, appointing party members to vacancies, which in turn gifts them the ability to run for the positions as incumbents.
King Sweeney, who was considered one of the party's rising stars, was appointed to her post in January 2015 to replace Angie Cullin, who had retired after 28 years on the board.
King Sweeney went on to win a full term in the November election.
This November, King Sweeney was one of two board members up for election.
The other — who will be seeking his first full term — is Thomas Muscarella, a Republican appointed in April to fill the seat of former board member Edward Ambrosino, who resigned after pleading guilty to federal tax evasion charges.
Cairo acknowledged that King Sweeney's move has left the GOP scrambling to find a new candidate in a district that increasingly leans Democratic — so much so, that reaching out to Democratic neighborhoods, such as Baldwin, became one cornerstone of King Sweeney's tenure.
"We're reaching out, to community groups, to political groups and we will find a good candidate and we will run a good seven-and-a-half week campaign," Cairo said.
Earlier last Friday, Jay Jacobs, Nassau's Democratic Party chair, said he believed there could be enough time — depending on when King Sweeney actually moves out of the county — for the GOP to appoint her successor. Under state law, there comes a point at which it's so close to the election that the candidate's name cannot be removed from the ballot.
"I think they could do it, although I don't think they should," he said.
But Cairo said just because he wants to keep a seat vacant this time around, it doesn't mean that the GOP won't make appointments down the road.
"If it was next year, it would be a different story," Cairo said.
As for Long Island born-and-bred King Sweeney, a move South won't cause the culture shock other Northerners might experience.
"It's not as far fetched as it sounds," she said, because her mom is from Atlanta.
She laughed, remembering her grandmother's warning as her mom went off to college: "Don't bring me back no damn Yankees."
Her mom, however, ended up marrying New Yorker Peter King.
"I'll be back, a lot, to see my parents," on Long Island, King Sweeney said.
Will she miss politics?
Never say never, said King Sweeney, who will continue working as an attorney.
But for now, she said, "I'm excited about having more time with my family."
By Joye Brown
Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006. She joined the newspaper in 1983 and has worked as a reporter, an editor, newsroom administrator and editorial writer.
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