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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.

Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

Published: April 1, 2013 5:44 PM
In this photo provided by New York Racing
Photo credit: AP | In this photo provided by New York Racing Association, Stay Thirsty, left, with Ramon Dominguez aboard, captures The G1 Cigar Mile horse race at Aqueduct in New York. (Nov. 24, 2012)
To see what's wrong up in Albany, one only needs to look at the fact that the Aqueduct Racetrack was closed on Palm Sunday. On an average Sunday, The Big A has a total handle of between $6 million and $7 million, of which New York State takes a percentage.
Racing also injects money into the industry, paying jockeys, trainers, grooms, etc. Hundreds of employees -- pari-mutuel clerks and racing officials -- help put on the show, which the state gets a piece of in income taxes.
All of this, worth thousands upon thousands of dollars, was lost because on an antiquated law. Not being allowed to race on Christmas or Easter is OK, but Palm Sunday? The New York Racing Authority races on Thanksgiving, and that's a holiday that the vast majority of us celebrate.
Changing this law would be a slam-dunk revenue creator.
Gerard Bringmann, Patchogue
Editor's note: The writer is both a racing fan and a practicing Catholic.

Nassau OTB must be open without religious preference. The faithful are free to go to Church on any day that they wish. It is simply not the province of the State of New York to determine the precise Sunday upon which Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday are observed. It is clear to the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church which Sunday the holiday is to be observed. It is not within the ambit for the State of New York to make religious determinations and express a religious preference. NY PML Sec 109 does not pass either the laugh test, legal scrutiny or constitutional muster.




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and you have the right to remain silent in

the face of discrimination and preference by the State of New York in your favor?
See NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3






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Gay church volunteer's request for reinstatement denied

Originally published: April 11, 2013 10:22 AM
Updated: April 11, 2013 3:04 PM
By BART JONES  bart.jones@newsday.com
Nicholas Coppola, left, and his husband David Crespo
Photo credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara | Nicholas Coppola, left, and his husband David Crespo in their Oceanside home. (April 4, 2013)
The Diocese of Rockville Centre on Thursday rejected a plea by a gay man to be reinstated to his volunteer duties in a parish in Oceanside after he was ousted because he married another man.
Nicholas Coppola delivered petitions requesting the reinstatement to the Rockville Centre offices of Bishop William Murphy on Thursday morning. The nationwide online petition, signed by 18,500 supporters, was organized by Faithful America, a Washington, D.C.-based group that opposes "right-wing extremism."
The diocese responded that it would not return Coppola to his duties because by marrying last October under New York State's same-sex marriage law he took a public position against Church teachings.
"The Catholic Church recognizes that all persons share equally in the dignity of being human and are entitled to have that human dignity protected," the diocese said in a statement. "This does not, however, justify the creation of a new definition for marriage, a term whose traditional meaning is of critical importance to the furtherance of fundamental societal interests."
Before the diocese issued its statement, Coppola said he remained hopeful the church would respond to the petitions. He said he has received a tremendous outpouring of support -- flowers were even left on his doorstep Wednesday.
"I hope that today, Bishop Murphy and the Diocese of Rockville Centre will understand the depth of support Catholics have for their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender friends and family," Coppola said at a news conference in front of the diocesan office just before delivering the petitions. "I also hope that they understand how many of us call the Catholic Church our home, and that we want to be in the church, active and involved."
In January, Coppola, 47, was removed from his duties at St. Anthony's parish as eucharistic minister, religion teacher and visitor for the homebound sick after the diocese received an anonymous letter complaining that he is gay.
Reinstating Coppola is "a major opportunity for Bishop Murphy and for Catholic bishops across the country to begin practicing Christian love when it comes to their gay and lesbian parishioners," said Michael Sherrard of Faithful America.
But William Donohue of the conservative Manhattan-based Catholic League said the church made the right decision. "Just as it is the right of a yeshiva to insist that its employees abide by Judaic strictures, it is the right of a Catholic school to insist that its employees respect Catholic teachings," he said.
Coppola has been openly gay at the parish for years. Last October, he married David Crespo, 47, under New York State's same-sex-marriage law. Coppola said about a dozen parishioners attended the wedding, along with some clergy.
The diocese has said the decision to remove him was made by St. Anthony's pastor, the Rev. Nicholas Lombardi, but that Lombardi made the correct move. Diocese spokesman Sean Dolan has said that anyone in public ministerial positions in the church must take public positions consistent with Catholic teachings.
Coppola disputed that, and said Lombardi was ordered by the diocese to oust him.
Catholic leaders, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York City, have made statements recently that the church, while not abandoning its teaching that marriage should be between a man and woman, should be more welcoming to homosexuals.



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Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

Published: April 1, 2013 5:44 PM
In this photo provided by New York Racing
Photo credit: AP | In this photo provided by New York Racing Association, Stay Thirsty, left, with Ramon Dominguez aboard, captures The G1 Cigar Mile horse race at Aqueduct in New York. (Nov. 24, 2012)
To see what's wrong up in Albany, one only needs to look at the fact that the Aqueduct Racetrack was closed on Palm Sunday. On an average Sunday, The Big A has a total handle of between $6 million and $7 million, of which New York State takes a percentage.
Racing also injects money into the industry, paying jockeys, trainers, grooms, etc. Hundreds of employees -- pari-mutuel clerks and racing officials -- help put on the show, which the state gets a piece of in income taxes.
All of this, worth thousands upon thousands of dollars, was lost because on an antiquated law. Not being allowed to race on Christmas or Easter is OK, but Palm Sunday? The New York Racing Authority races on Thanksgiving, and that's a holiday that the vast majority of us celebrate.
Changing this law would be a slam-dunk revenue creator.
Gerard Bringmann, Patchogue
Editor's note: The writer is both a racing fan and a practicing Catholic.


You can't close Nassau OTB on Roman Catholic Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday.
You can't close Nassau OTB on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday.
If you are not Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox your preference is of no import to the State of New York.
See NY PML Sec 109.

There should be separation of church and state?
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Andrew Cuomo the man who thinks he is

King and is holier than thou and can tell Nassau OTB Bettors and employees when "Easter Sunday" and "Palm Sunday" is.  Rather than listen to Andrew read a good book




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Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy, if you give me a mailing address.

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Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 

Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

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.


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Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

Published: April 1, 2013 5:44 PM
In this photo provided by New York Racing
Photo credit: AP | In this photo provided by New York Racing Association, Stay Thirsty, left, with Ramon Dominguez aboard, captures The G1 Cigar Mile horse race at Aqueduct in New York. (Nov. 24, 2012)
To see what's wrong up in Albany, one only needs to look at the fact that the Aqueduct Racetrack was closed on Palm Sunday. On an average Sunday, The Big A has a total handle of between $6 million and $7 million, of which New York State takes a percentage.
Racing also injects money into the industry, paying jockeys, trainers, grooms, etc. Hundreds of employees -- pari-mutuel clerks and racing officials -- help put on the show, which the state gets a piece of in income taxes.
All of this, worth thousands upon thousands of dollars, was lost because on an antiquated law. Not being allowed to race on Christmas or Easter is OK, but Palm Sunday? The New York Racing Authority races on Thanksgiving, and that's a holiday that the vast majority of us celebrate.
Changing this law would be a slam-dunk revenue creator.
Gerard Bringmann, Patchogue
Editor's note: The writer is both a racing fan and a practicing Catholic.




There is plenty wrong in Albany including Andrew Cuomo who has not read NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 and imposes his religious preference upon us all

 

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Andrew Cuomo plays the NY Lottery on

Roman Catholic Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and checks the results for those days
at

New York Lottery - Hey You Never Know

nylottery.ny.gov/
FOR THE NEW YORK GAMING COMMISSION GO TO GAMING.NY.GOV ... Drawing Results ... You must be 18 or older to buy a New York Lottery ticket.
Drawing results - Winning numbers - Powerball - Website Information
 
Since he loves  the Lottery and hates NY horse players with a passion he sees that Nassau OTB is closed on those days.
 
Note that Andrew Cuomo is not a religious fellow who believes that various religions should be treated equally since he closes Nassau OTB on Roman Catholic Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday.
 
I guess he figures that the Vatican will never notice and Cardinal Dolan does not reallly care about freedom of religion.
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Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

Published: April 1, 2013 5:44 PM
In this photo provided by New York Racing
Photo credit: AP | In this photo provided by New York Racing Association, Stay Thirsty, left, with Ramon Dominguez aboard, captures The G1 Cigar Mile horse race at Aqueduct in New York. (Nov. 24, 2012)
To see what's wrong up in Albany, one only needs to look at the fact that the Aqueduct Racetrack was closed on Palm Sunday. On an average Sunday, The Big A has a total handle of between $6 million and $7 million, of which New York State takes a percentage.
Racing also injects money into the industry, paying jockeys, trainers, grooms, etc. Hundreds of employees -- pari-mutuel clerks and racing officials -- help put on the show, which the state gets a piece of in income taxes.
All of this, worth thousands upon thousands of dollars, was lost because on an antiquated law. Not being allowed to race on Christmas or Easter is OK, but Palm Sunday? The New York Racing Authority races on Thanksgiving, and that's a holiday that the vast majority of us celebrate.
Changing this law would be a slam-dunk revenue creator.
Gerard Bringmann, Patchogue
Editor's note: The writer is both a racing fan and a practicing Catholic.
 
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Shapiro should not be surprised


In NY there are only two concepts that politicians understand at little bit.
Sue if you think a law should be challenged.
Federal Indictment. The NY form of political vacation.

Sheldon Silver and Mario Cuomo both think that you can close Nassau OTB on Roman Catholic Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter  Sunday. NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 is a brand of toilet paper?.

SHAPIRO: New York’s defiance of the Second Amendment

If one civil right is ignored, all civil rights are at risk

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    By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
    Thursday, April 4, 2013
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    Earlier this year in the wake of the tragic Sandy Hook Shootings, the state of New York defied the U.S. Supreme Court by passing the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, a complete ban on magazines that hold more than seven rounds.
    Since there is no such thing as a seven-round magazine for most guns, the law as written is essentially a total ban on semi-automatic firearms. In fact, the SAFE Act was drafted so hastily that legislators failed to exclude law enforcement agents from the ban, thus making it illegal for police officers to carry semi-automatic firearms, too.Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared the legislation the “toughest” gun law in the nation, but that’s nothing to be proud of. The SAFE Act is actually unconstitutional. The Supreme Court made it clear in 2008 in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects firearms in “common use” and that citizens have a right to own such firearms for self-defense. Since semi-automatic guns are some of the most common firearms in the United States and nearly all of them carry more than seven rounds, they are constitutionally protected under the Second Amendment.Earlier this month, I contacted the offices of New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Mr. Cuomo to ask them how the SAFE Act’s prohibition on guns that carry more than seven rounds did not actually violate the Heller decision.
    After making personal contact with aides in both offices and three additional inquiries each, I received no response.
    That’s probably because Mr. Cuomo knows that the law in unconstitutional.
    He is setting a dangerous example by defying the Supreme Court, immortalizing himself in the company of Southern governors like George Wallace who refused to racially integrate schools in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.
    The message Mr. Cuomo is sending to other states is that when the Supreme Court speaks, its voice does not matter, and that’s exactly what Wallace did in 1963.
    It doesn’t matter that this issue is about guns instead of race. After all, if New York can violate this civil right then other states can violate it, too. It may even open the door for them to violate other civil rights.
    Imagine for a moment if Southern states took this as a cue that since New York is disregarding the Heller decision, then they can disregard the Roe v. Wade decision and illegally prosecute women for exercising their right to choose.
    Obviously, if that happened, there would be an outcry of injustice across the nation.For some reason however, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is not respected or treated with equal consideration as other constitutional rights. It is not taken seriously by liberal states or even the ultra-left Obama administration.Democratic officials continue to delude themselves, pretending as if the Heller decision does not exist.
    Shortly after the Supreme Court struck down Washington, D.C.’s gun ban in the 2008 Heller case, gun-control advocates in the District of Columbia went into shock. It took the District about three months to make actual, legislative changes that allowed residents to keep semi-automatic firearms in their homes.
    For a short time, residents who kept semi-automatic handguns in their homes were still prosecuted under the flawed theory that a semi-automatic could hypothetically be converted into a machine gun and these guns, therefore, should be treated as automatic weapons, a class of firearms not protected by Heller.This irrational, Orwellian type of logic allowed the District to continue enforcing the gun ban even though it had been deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.As a result, the U.S. Congress threatened to pass a law that would make semi-automatic handguns legal in Washington. To avoid the embarrassment of being preempted by Congress, the D.C. Council passed emergency legislation allowing residents to keep semi-automatic firearms in their homes.
    The District’s short-lived defiance of the Supreme Court only lasted three months, but nearly five years later, the state of New York is arrogantly trying to do the same thing, sending a message to states across the union that the supreme law of the land does not need to be respected.This message has more far-reaching implications than just guns. It is a crack in our entire constitutional system and places Americans everywhere at risk. If New York does not respect the Supreme Court’s ruling about firearms, then all of our civil rights are at risk in every state.The state of New York should reverse the SAFE Act immediately and comply with the Supreme Court and Constitution of the United States.
    Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is a former prosecutor in Washington, D.C.


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    Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

    Published: April 1, 2013 5:44 PM
    In this photo provided by New York Racing
    Photo credit: AP | In this photo provided by New York Racing Association, Stay Thirsty, left, with Ramon Dominguez aboard, captures The G1 Cigar Mile horse race at Aqueduct in New York. (Nov. 24, 2012)
    To see what's wrong up in Albany, one only needs to look at the fact that the Aqueduct Racetrack was closed on Palm Sunday. On an average Sunday, The Big A has a total handle of between $6 million and $7 million, of which New York State takes a percentage.
    Racing also injects money into the industry, paying jockeys, trainers, grooms, etc. Hundreds of employees -- pari-mutuel clerks and racing officials -- help put on the show, which the state gets a piece of in income taxes.
    All of this, worth thousands upon thousands of dollars, was lost because on an antiquated law. Not being allowed to race on Christmas or Easter is OK, but Palm Sunday? The New York Racing Authority races on Thanksgiving, and that's a holiday that the vast majority of us celebrate.
    Changing this law would be a slam-dunk revenue creator.
    Gerard Bringmann, Patchogue
    Editor's note: The writer is both a racing fan and a practicing Catholic.
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    Nassau OTB will not run out of money in June?




    http://www.newsday.com/opinion/letters/letter-why-close-racetrack-on-palm-sunday-1.4987592

    Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

    Published: April 1, 2013 5:44 PM
    In this photo provided by New York Racing
    Photo credit: AP | In this photo provided by New York Racing Association, Stay Thirsty, left, with Ramon Dominguez aboard, captures The G1 Cigar Mile horse race at Aqueduct in New York. (Nov. 24, 2012)
    To see what's wrong up in Albany, one only needs to look at the fact that the Aqueduct Racetrack was closed on Palm Sunday. On an average Sunday, The Big A has a total handle of between $6 million and $7 million, of which New York State takes a percentage.
    Racing also injects money into the industry, paying jockeys, trainers, grooms, etc. Hundreds of employees -- pari-mutuel clerks and racing officials -- help put on the show, which the state gets a piece of in income taxes.
    All of this, worth thousands upon thousands of dollars, was lost because on an antiquated law. Not being allowed to race on Christmas or Easter is OK, but Palm Sunday? The New York Racing Authority races on Thanksgiving, and that's a holiday that the vast majority of us celebrate.
    Changing this law would be a slam-dunk revenue creator.
    Gerard Bringmann, Patchogue
    Editor's note: The writer is both a racing fan and a practicing Catholic.
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    Monday, April 1, 2013

    Teamsters Local 707 Executive Board proudly

    presents, past practice, and/or why Nassau OTB cashier Jackson Leeds attempt to select as his fourth shift, Wednesday 3:45-8:15, should or should not be allowed as a  pick protected by Article VI Section 13  CASHIER SCHEDULING (c) of the Collective Bargaining Agreement dated January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2008 and still in effect.
    This second shift was ultimately filled by the "Pool" instead of a Franklin Square Branch cashier who attempted to pick the shift.

    All Nassau OTB cashiers interested in the Contract, past practice, and/or their Union, are invited to attend the presentation.  Contact Jackson Leeds and/or the Union for the date and time of the Executive Board Meeting.



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