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Heastie: ‘I’m not a big fan of gambling’but i love cash flow as much as that white boy andrew cuomo loves the wondering dago food truck case
Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie isn’t a big fan of gambling, but said a decision on sports gambling legislation will be determined by the members of his conference.
“I’m not a big fan of gambling, but again, it’s legal here in the state,” Heastie told reporters on Wednesday in Albany when asked about his personal views on sports gambling and a state Senate bill that would regulate the industry. “The members will decide, but I’m not the biggest fan of gambling.”
Stop scratching on holidays
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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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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The Assembly Democrats are expected to conference the issue before the end of session, which is scheduled to conclude on June 20.
Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, a Yonkers Democrat who leads the chamber’s gambling committee, previously said members in the conference were interested in addressing the issue after the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to the possibility of sports gamblingin New York.
Pretlow has yet to introduce a bill on sports gambling this session, although he has maintained that the four full-scale casinos in upstate New York can offer betting on sports as soon as the state Gaming Commission writes regulations and issues licenses.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has argued that the state’s sports gambling language, tucked into the 2013 law authorizing full-scale casinos outside of Native American reservations, was not sufficient for the four casinos to offer sports gambling.
“We’ll do an economic analysis and a legal analysis, but nothing’s going to happen this year because there’s literally just a number of days left in the legislative session and this would be a very, very big issue to tackle,” he said after the court ruling.
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