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Ocasio-Cortez: Trump’s not ready to deal with a girl from the Bronx
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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.
OPEN ON 1ST PALM SUNDAY, OTB RAKES IN $2M
New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday. Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so. "We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business.
" Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida. While in the past NYCOTB has respected the law and shut down on Palm Sunday, it took a chance this time because its business is down. "With the weather being the way it's been our handle has been off significantly," Casey said. "Our lawyers felt from their point of view that we could open (yesterday).
" The law says race tracks can't open. It doesn't mention OTBs. "I respect the Racing and Wagering Board and I have the utmost respect for chairman Michael Hoblock but I felt we're right on this one," Casey said. The NYSRWB didn't return phone calls yesterday but said on Saturday it would meet this week to discuss fines and penalties it can impose on NYCOTB. "This isn't personal," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the board's interpretation.
" Casey also said NYCOTB may open on Easter Sunday.
They’re both from New York City — but Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned whether President Trump is ready to “deal with a girl from the Bronx.”
Ocasio-Cortez — who became a star of the left after toppling Rep. Joe Crowley in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — hurled the zinger during an appearance on CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Thursday night.
Ocasio-Cortez, 28, was asked if she would be nicer to Trump after the president complained in a tweet that Crowley wasn’t deferential to him.
“The president is from Queens. With all due respect, half of my district is in Queens,” she said.
But, Ocasio-Cortez added, “I don’t think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx.”
The Democratic nominee for the 14th Congressional District also dismissed the validity of polls in primary elections.
“Polling people try to identify who’s the most likely person to turn out. What we did is we changed who turns out,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
As an example, she said, she bumped into two teenagers in the Bronx minutes before the polls closed Tuesday night, who excitedly said they voted for her. They told her they were new 19-year-old voters, not the type who typically vote in a June primary election.
She explained why she considers herself a Democratic socialist.
“No person in American should be too poor to live,” she said. “No person should be homeless.”
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