& teach the gang the Cory s will stick it to em
You will bet on our money because arrogance has its limits
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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.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide — who played a key role in trying to suppress his spiraling sexual harassment scandal — is a “ruthless, heartless, evil human being” who’s made even more enemies in Albany than her notoriously vindictive boss, sources who know her told The Post.
Melissa DeRosa, whose job as secretary to the governor makes her the state’s most powerful non-elected official, was described by one former Executive Chamber insider as “the worst person I have ever worked for in my entire professional career.”
“She is a ruthless, heartless, evil human being who will rip your heart out in order to get what she wants,” the sourc
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