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Claude Solnik
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Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348
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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.
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.
moving primary day would come with consequences
The Democratic National Committee warned New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday that moving up the state’s primary election day would come with consequences.
Cuomo’s desire to change the Democratic primary from April 28 to February came up at a DNC Rules and Bylaws meeting Friday and was quickly dismissed by leadership.
“Moving into the February pre-window would be a violation of the DNC timing rules,” said Jim Roosevelt, co-chair of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee. “And those whose memories stretch back to 2008 will remember that we do not take violations of the timing rule lightly and we would take appropriate action if that were to happen.”
In 2008, Michigan and Florida skirted party rules and moved up their primaries in effort to grab some of the candidate attention that is usually reserved for early states like Iowa and New Hampshire. As punishment, the DNC took away half their delegate votes at the convention.
NY1 reported Thursday that Cuomo was considering also moving the Senate and Assembly primaries that are scheduled for June 23 to February in a move that could boost turnout, protect incumbents and make New York a relevant campaign stop for 2020 hopefuls.
“I do think Gov. Cuomo’s subsequent statement today may reflect the fact of the Democratic leadership of both the assembly and senate expressed that they had no interest in moving the primary,” Roosevelt told the DNC committee. “We’ll keep monitoring the situation.”
Cuomo communications director Dani Lever said in a statement, “The Governor believes the best governmental practice is to consolidate the presidential, congressional and state primary elections on one day making it easier to vote and saving tens of millions of taxpayer dollars rather than holding multiple elections. That was the rationale for moving the September statewide primaries up to coordinate with the June federal primaries. The presidential primary of April 28 this year adds a new element and the easiest solution is to hold the state and congressional primaries on that date: April 28.
“Governor Cuomo believes we should want as many voters to participate in the process as possible, and everything we have done since Democrats have taken full con
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