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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.

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On Monday, Rep. Peter King, the longtime Republican congressman from Seaford, announced he is retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives and will not seek reelection next year.  (Credit: Howard Schnapp)

By Laura Figueroa Hernandez and Rachelle Blidnerlaura.figueroa@newsday.com, rachelle.blidner@newsday.comUpdated November 11, 2019 9:55 PM

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WASHINGTON — Republican  Rep. Peter King’s decision not to seek reelection in 2020 has already set off a national political fight over New York’s 2nd Congressional District, with both parties declaring the district a high priority and political analysts predicting record campaign spending.

As national congressional leaders on Monday vowed to wage a vigorous fight for the seat, local GOP and Democratic leaders were weighing their prospective field of candidates for a race that comes as President Donald Trump seeks a second term in office.

Democrat Liuba Grechen-Shirley, who narrowly lost to King in 2018, said Monday she is “seriously considering another run” and Babylon Town Councilwoman Jackie Gordon, who launched her campaign in May, declared herself on Twitter “ready to serve the people of Long Island in Washington.”