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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.
Letitia James: I won’t take orders from Cuomo as attorney general
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s choice to be the next attorney general criticized his decision to close the anti-corruption Moreland investigation and said she wouldn’t take orders from the governor because her personality is stronger than his.
“I’ve been independent all of my life,” said Public Advocate Letitia James, who was endorsed by Cuomo in May.
“The reality is that I’ve been counted out for a very long time and people continue to underestimate me and I continue to overperform … The reality is that although the governor may have a strong personality, I think I’ve got an even stronger personality, as someone from Brooklyn.”
James made the remarks in an interview with the public affairs program “New York Now,” which is being broadcast by PBS.
“We should have continued with the Moreland Commission,” James told reporter Karen DeWitt, who covers the state Capitol for New York’s public radio stations.
“But, at this point in time, there is no Moreland Commission and in order to engage in a Moreland Commission, we would need to get the approval of the governor of the state of New York.”
She added that she would press the Legislature and Cuomo to expand the AG’s powers to investigate corruption after several scandals recently led to prison sentences for top Cuomo aides and two former top state lawmakers.
“The Office of Attorney General should be independent and the Office of Attorney General should have the power to investigate without the approval of the governor of the state of New York,” James said. “It’s absolutely critically important.”
Under current law, Cuomo must refer a matter to the Attorney General’s Office for investigation.
Reps for Cuomo’s campaign were not immediately available to comment.
The interview is scheduled to air on public affairs program “New York Now,” which many public television stations upstate carry Friday night and is on New York City’s PBS station, WNET-13, on Saturday morning.
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