Trump dares Cuomo to run against
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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.
him in 2020
WASHINGTON – President Trump slammed Gov. Andrew Cuomo Monday on guns, high taxes and dared the Democrat to challenge him for the White House in 2020.
Speaking at a campaign event in Utica, Trump said Cuomo telephoned him and pledged to “never” run against Trump for president.
“But maybe he wants to,” Trump said of Cuomo’s aspirations. “Please do it. Please do it. Please!”
Trump added: “The one thing we know … anybody that runs against Trump suffers. That’s the way it should be.”
Speaking at the rally to support Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) in a tough reelection fight, Trump told supporters Cuomo is the “one reason” New Yorkers have high taxes. The adoring Trump supporters booed.
He also said Cuomo wants to “end your Second Amendment.”
In a statement before Trump’s event, Cuomo said: “Despite being a native New Yorker, since you took office, you have attacked our healthcare, passed a tax law that punished New York in order to fund corporate tax cuts, ripped immigrant New Yorkers from their families, launched an assault on our environment, and undermined the basic values on which this state and this nation were built.”
Trump lamented that his home state had become so “sad,” he was once considering running for governor.
“But I decided to run for president instead,” Trump told the crowd.
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