andrew cuomo hates the members of the eastern orthodox church as he closes nassau otb a public benefit corporation on roman cathoilic easter sunday in preference to orthodox easter sunday. see ny const art 1 sec 3
perhaps jimmie howard remembers the nassau otb branch st 220 fulton street in hempstead where all sorts of bettors bet
civility and common sense cannot efficiently be enforced or imposed by lawsuits
imagine what has been said when some fool said that nassau otb should be open every day of the year thst tracks are ruuning without new york that bettors of all colours and beliefs want to bet.
help us jimmie
Claude Solnik
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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.
Nov 25, 2011 - It's only 126 days until Palm Sunday and seven more until Easter, more than enough time for New York to repeal its antiquated and unreasonable ban on racing those two days.
Hempstead Town Hall Plaza courtyard in the fall, Nov. 28, 2011. Photo Credit: JC Cherubini
A Town of Hempstead employee has filed a federal lawsuit against the town and its highway department for racism that he says goes back almost 10 years.
Jimmie Howard, 43, once a town Highway employee and now with the town’s Parks Department, filed a lawsuit in U. S. District Court in Brooklyn on Thursday, charging that highway supervisors and employees called him a “monkey” and treated him worse than white employees.
On April 28, 2014, Howard charged in court papers, employees posted a picture of a baby gorilla on the official bulletin board at the highway department in Levittown and indicated it was Howard’s baby picture.
“That people would think like that in this day and age is despicable, but that they would also say them in public is sociopathic,” said Howard’s Manhattan-based attorney, Joseph Tacopina.
Town spokesman Michael Deery said that, while the Town “does not comment on pending litigation, it has a zero tolerance for racial discrimination.”
Howard, who lives in Hempstead Village, has been a town employee since 2006, and the actions by fellow employees and supervisors that he alleges began around October 2007, according to court papers. The papers charge that one supervisor “continuously yelled” at him and called him a “monkey. The papers also say that nooses were hung from the back of a forklift at the department, including one that held a tarred stuff animal.
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The court papers state that, after complaining about the abuse to another supervisor, he was told the other supervisor “didn’t take [his] medication.” That supervisor was not punished, according to the papers.
Howard was an equipment operator and said in his court papers that he was assigned the worst equipment, like a heatless and fume-filled truck, and the worst “job assignments, such as picking up dead animals and garbage.”
Between 2007 and 2014 he was written up for “arriving a few minutes late to work, while other employees who arrived at the same time or later, were not,” according to the papers.
He also said that if he arrived at 7:05 a.m. his pay would start at 8 a.m., while white employees would arrive at 10 a.m. and still get paid from 7 a.m.
After the 2014 gorilla posting and his failure to get departmental assistance on the issue, the court papers state that he did not immediately return to work on his doctor’s advice.
He returned on June 2, 2014, to the town’s parks department, where he still works. The papers state that he was “constructively” discharged from the highway department and lost sick and vacation days he was entitled to.
As a result, the papers said, he is entitled to compensatory damages for emotional distress, lost sick and vacations days, mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life.
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