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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.
Left-wing Gov. Cuomo flips press event upside down, questions reporter about his company’s ‘fraud’
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Left-wing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo flipped a press event upside down Tuesday by questioning a reporter about his parent company’s “fraud,” the Huffington Post reported.
Zack Fink, a reporter with regional cable channel New York 1, asked Cuomo if he’s considered returning donations from employees of Crystal Run Healthcare, a New York clinic chain, or launching an internal investigation into whether donations are valid, the Post said.
Amid a federal probe into $400,000 in donations to Cuomo, the Post said investigators are trying to determine if Crystal Run reimbursed employees for Cuomo donations through bonuses — i.e. straw donations.
How did Cuomo respond?
Initially Cuomo noted his campaign would return contributions or initiate an internal inquiry only if federal officials found wrongdoing, the outlet reported.
And then the Democratic governor turned the media event on its head — by playing the reporter role and asking Fink about an apparent dispute between the state government and Spectrum News, which is New York 1’s parent company, the Post said.
“Speaking of fraud, Charter Spectrum has been executing fraud on the people of this state,” Cuomo said, according to an event transcript, before adding an argument that the cable company has failed to “increase cable access” in poor and rural communities and is running “fraudulent” ads about company successes.
“So you are defrauding the people of this state,” Cuomo said, addressing Fink. “That’s a fraud.”
And after Fink came back with a different question, it was apparent that the governor wasn’t finished with his inquiry: “Are you speaking on behalf of Charter Spectrum or yourself?” Cuomo asked Fink.
“No, I’m just asking a question,” Fink replied.
How did Cuomo’s progressive gubernatorial opponent Cynthia Nixon react?
Actress Cynthia Nixon — Cuomo’s progressive gubernatorial challenger — said his exchange with the reporter resembled President Donald Trump’s spats with the media.
“Cuomo can’t hold himself up as New York’s answer to Donald Trump and simultaneously threaten members of the press for doing their job,” Nixon said in a statement, the Post reported. “The governor owes NY1’s Zack Fink an apology. He was doing exactly what the free press is supposed to do.”
A spokesperson for the governor’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to the Post’s request for comment on Cuomo’s exchange with Fink.
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