president of nassau otb and nassau county republican leader
working and betting and ny const art 1 sec 3 and
praying are for dogs
ny pml sec 109 will not be impeached and nassau otb will not pay fouble time for christmas and christmas eve for no eork and no tactks running while sunday april 12 has great racing to be bet at tracks running outside the andrew cuomo kingdom of the state of new yok
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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.
Republicans challenge markup, call for minority hearing day
House Judiciary Committee Republicans launched their first procedural attack at the impeachment markup right away Thursday, protesting Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s (D-N.Y.) refusal to respond to a request for a minority hearing day on impeachment.
Rep. Douglas A. Collins (R-Ga.) asked the majority on Dec. 4 to schedule a hearing for them to call their own witnesses on behalf of Trump, citing House rules allowing for the minority to have such events on major issues. Nadler, Collins said Thursday, had yet to respond to the letter, even as Democrats moved to mark up impeachment articles and eyed floor action as soon as next week.
“The House rule does not require me to schedule a hearing on a particular day,” Nadler said at the committee meeting. “Nor does it require me to schedule the hearing as a condition precedent to taking any specific legislative action. Otherwise, the minority would have the ability to delay or block majority legislative action, which is clearly not the purpose of the rule.”
Collins blasted Democrats for trampling minority rights: “Minority rights are dead in this committee.”
By Rachael Bade
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