Just ask Teresa Butler what she did for Nassau OTB and how much she and her lawyer were paid when when she sued in federal court after being fired for not ringing the door bells for Tom Suozzi.
Butler v. Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation et al
as 2:2007cv01472
Plaintiff: Teresa Butler
Defendants:
Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation, Board of Trustees of
Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation, Nassau County Democratic
Committee and Jay Jacobs
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights Act
What kind of people close a betting establishment, Nassau OTB, on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday? Fools or religious zealots?
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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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Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, and his
opponent in the November election, former Nassau County Executive Thomas
Suozzi, appeared together at a press conference in Mineola Tuesday to
urge New Yorkers to vote "Yes" on Proposition 1 on Election Day, which
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Mangano, the incumbent Republican, and Suozzi, a Democrat who served as county executive from 2002 to 2009, responded to questions about the possible use of Plainview's OTB Race Palace as a site for electronic slot machines. The site has been discussed as an option after state lawmakers in June granted Nassau and Suffolk the right to operate 1,000 "video lottery terminals" each as a way to generate revenues.
Suozzi said any location should be selected "in a public way. We need to see what the impact will be on the quality of life in the neighborhood."
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Mangano said his office is conducting a study about the Race Palace and "any final determination will be based on the study," which he expects to be completed by the end of the year.
Suozzi said that to boost economic activity he would create a New Suburbia Trailblazers competition in which municipalities would compete for county, state, and federal grants to be used to revamp local downtowns into "destinations" featuring mixed-used residential and commercial properties.
Mangano said he has created a business recovery task force to help small business owners following superstorm Sandy. He also said his office has worked to increase the number of television and movie production companies filming in Nassau.
Suozzi spoke first because Mangano arrived more than an hour late to the Plainview event because of scheduling conflicts.
Deputy County Executive Rob Walker initially told the group that Mangano could not attend because he was meeting with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials in Manhattan.
"He was called to New York City to meet with the FEMA director and as well as New York State Homeland Security in regards to Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant -- he's been in the city since 7 o'clock this morning," Walker said. "He had to go there this morning to hopefully come back with a check for $700 million so we can continue to rebuild our sewage treatment facility."
In an interview later, Mangano said he actually was at an 8 a.m. state Republican Party meeting in Manhattan, followed by a Sandy-related conference call on his ride back to Nassau.
Mangano said Walker "may not have been totally be aware of my schedule."
State GOP spokesman David Laska said the breakfast was a "small" gathering of officers and committee members held at the Union League Club in midtown.
New York State Division of Homeland Security Spokesman Peter Cutler said he was unaware of any conference calls related to Bay Park Sewage Plant held Wednesday.
FEMA did not immediately respond to a call and email seeking clarification on the conference call. Mangano said he expected within a week to announce developments regarding federal funding for the sewage plant, which was damaged severely during Sandy.
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