that you all otb faithful can simply go to hell along with ny const art 1 sec 3
jacobs and gaynor retreat to the range to shoot the hell out of jerry bossert and ny const art 1 sec 3
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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.
Democrats hit Republican C. William Gaylor III in Nassau Legislature race
Nassau Democrats are criticizing Republican Legis. C. William Gaylor III for helping a legal client who sought unsuccessfully to build a "gun spa" in Lynbrook Village. Photo Credit: James Escher
The Nassau Democratic Committee has launched "Gun Shop Gaylor," a website criticizing Legis. C. William Gaylor III (R-Lynbrook) for past legal work on behalf of a proposed "gun spa" — though he has decried the page as "sleazy politics."
Gaylor is facing a challenge from Rockville Centre Democrat Laura Burns in a closely watched race.
Democrats must unseat two Republicans as county legislators in order to win control of the chamber, where Republicans hold an 11-8 majority.
The GunShopGaylor.com website states: "So then why did Bill Gaylor support bringing a gun shop and shooting range to Lynbrook? To add insult to injury, not only did he support bringing guns into our community, he was even paid for this dangerous attempt." A Facebook page and online ads also have sprung up.
Gaylor said about three or four years ago, he represented a client looking to build a gun store and shooting range in Lynbrook. Gaylor said he helped the client in seeking zoning variance from the village. But the project "never went forward, and the people didn’t buy the building that they were in contract for," he said.
In 2016, Queens security company ISS Action Inc. withdrew an application to the Lynbrook Village Board to build a “gun spa” — a combination shooting range and beauty parlor — following opposition from village residents.
Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs said, “with the prevalence of gun violence in our country and the threat to school children currently, I think that promoting the sale of guns in a community like Lynbrook, is really outrageous.”
Jacobs said party has spent several thousand dollars on the advertising buy.
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