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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.
corruption all around him is beyond pathetic
Gov. Cuomo must be walking around blindfolded, with all the corruption he claims not to have seen.
Monday, the Albany Times Union reported that the gov’s ex-top aide, Joe Percoco, who was convicted on several counts of corruption, also used a taxpayer-funded phone line to make calls related to the gov’s 2014 re-election campaign. Which is illegal.
Percoco’s lawyer denies that, but phone records matched with his security swipe-ins at the governor’s Albany offices show Percoco was at his desk for many of the 837 calls made to fundraisers, election consultants and campaign staff. Percoco shouldn’t even have been working in a government office while running the campaign.
Of course, Cuomo says he knew nothing about any of this — just as he was blind to the bribes Percoco took and the bid-rigging by another top aide, Alain Kaloyeros, who was convicted of corruption Friday.
Last week, we noted how Cuomo desperately tried to change the subject from corruption with major news on other issues. When he did focus on last week’s verdict, he practically never heard of Kaloyeros — his handpicked economic-development czar, whom he earlier called a “genius.”
No one has pinned anything on Cuomo directly yet, though an investigation is still underway. But even if the best he can say is he was ignorant of the sleaze going on right under his nose, it’s still pretty damning.
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