those bloomberg terminals give good head but rather thsn apologize mike, be like a woman drive te truvk over the aarogant pricks and see thst the holy church of nassau otb is open for the faithful who come from nyc, plenty of people of all sorts bet and or work at nassau otb
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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.
do not be like andrew cuomo mike, read ny const art 1 sec 3
OPEN ON 1ST PALM SUNDAY, OTB RAKES IN
$2M
New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday. Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so. "We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business.
" Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida. While in the past NYCOTB has respected the law and shut down on Palm Sunday, it took a chance this time because its business is down. "With the weather being the way it's been our handle has been off significantly," Casey said. "Our lawyers felt from their point of view that we could open (yesterday).
" The law says race tracks can't open. It doesn't mention OTBs. "I respect the Racing and Wagering Board and I have the utmost respect for chairman Michael Hoblock but I felt we're right on this one," Casey said. The NYSRWB didn't return phone calls yesterday but said on Saturday it would meet this week to discuss fines and penalties it can impose on NYCOTB. "This isn't personal
," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the board's interpretation.
," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the board's interpretation.
" Casey also said NYCOTB may open on Easter Sunday.
put on a dress and act like woman and kick ass mike , you will get more votes,
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Washington (CNN)New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday assailed former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to apologize for "stop and frisk" on the verge of a possible 2020 run, casting the decision in an interview with CNN as politically craven and referring to it as a "death bed conversion."
De Blasio, who dropped out of the 2020 race earlier this year, said that Bloomberg had six years since the end of his tenure to re-think his support for "stop and frisk," but instead was notably dismissive of anyone who said he had been wrong on the policy.
"He had almost six full years to say it was wrong... we have had plenty of inflection points where he could have said, 'You know what, I was wrong,'" de Blasio said in a phone interview. "He has never cared to do that. And I think that says something about the veracity of this."
The policing approach, officially called "Stop, question and frisk," sparked a backlash from activists throughout Bloomberg's tenure as mayor because it disproportionately affected African American and Latino men. Police department figures showed that nearly nine out of 10 people "stopped and frisked" in 2011 were African American or Hispanic.
De Blasio ran for mayor in 2013, in part, on a platform to end Bloomberg's "stop and frisk" policy and has been a vocal critic of the kind of policing for years. A September Sienna College poll found just 33% of New York City voters say they have a favorable opinion of de Blasio with his unfavorable rating reaching 58%.
The unpopular mayor said that Bloomberg could have gotten away with his backtrack if he had done it a few years after he left office.
"But to wait six whole years and only when it is a matter of need, I think that raises eyebrows," he said. "This is a death bed conversion," he added, arguing that Bloomberg is only doing an about face because his previous position is wholly out of step with the Democratic electorate.
"We all appealed to him for years to reconsider and I think it is a statement on him that he was very dismissive," de Blasio said. "This was part of a pattern of being absolutely insensitive to the need to balance safety and fairness and being unwilling to listen to community voices."
De Blasio said people "may forgive" Bloomberg for his years of support for the policing policy, but "we will not forget."
"It was too big a mistake and too haughty a mistake to simply be brushed aside. It is at least as much about the fact that he didn't care to listen to communities of color and he didn't listen to reformers. That speaks volumes," de Blasio said. "This is a problem for him that people are not going to see it as consistent."
Earlier this month, Bloomberg's team filed paperwork to get on the Democratic primary ballot in Alabama and Arkansas. His spokesman Howard Wolfson had previously said if Bloomberg decided to launch a 2020 bid he would not run in the first four contests: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
African American Democratic voters play a crucial role in both the primary and general elections in the Palmetto State.
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