we want

1 a leave sharing plan as there was oreviously at nassau otb

2 ny state roth  deferred comp option as is provided for by the collective bargaining agreemrnt

3 respect for bettirs and ny const art 1 sec 3

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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.

4 we will vote kevin mccaffrey out  as president of teamster local 707 not because joseph g cairo said he ws a good boy but because he has done nothing good. he calls not putin yo fix ele tions but hoffa

Now that Skelos was found guilty again, who will be next?

By Post Editorial Board

July 17, 2018 | 7:32pm | Updated

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For the fourth time in as many months, a federal jury found one of Albany’s former top power brokers guilty of corruption.

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Dean Skelos, son found guilty on all counts in corruption retrial

Ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted Tuesday on eight counts of bribery, extortion and conspiracy. The jury agreed he used his power to muscle companies into providing his son Adam (also convicted) with $300,000 worth of no-show and low-show jobs.

It was the second guilty verdict for the pair, whose earlier convictions were overturned based on a Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the definition of official corruption. And it took place next door to the courtroom where Alain Kaloyeros, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s economic-development czar, was convicted of bid-rigging just last week.

Since March, juries also have convicted Cuomo’s right-hand man, Joe Percoco, of soliciting and accepting bribes, as well as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — Skelos’ fellow member of the “three men in a room” who controlled Albany — of corruptly abusing his office.

Looks like Albany’s swamp is finally being drained, one corrupt official at a time.

Though there was nothing new in the charges, the verdict was a fresh rebuke to the state capital’s culture of corruption — and its continued refusal to enact meaningful ethics reform.

Unlike at his original trial, this time Skelos took the stand to plead that he’d only been soliciting friends to help his troubled son, as any loving father would. Needless to say, the jury wasn’t buying it.

As prosecutor Tom McKay said in closing arguments: “He had the power to make or break companies with state legislation. That’s not just a father trying to help a son, that’s criminal.”

We’ve long said the only genuine ethics reform in Albany will have to come from prosecutors. They and the juries are doing their job — and sending a strong message.