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05-24-2010, 09:11 PM
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05-25-2010, 09:31 AM
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Finalized this morning...
State lawmakers approve NYRA loan By Matt Hegarty The New York legislature approved a $25 million loan to the New York Racing Association as part of an emergency budget appropriation late on Tuesday, according to Morgan Hook, a spokesman for Gov. David Paterson.
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05-25-2010, 11:57 AM
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It seems to me that now would be a pretty good time for NYRA to push to merge NYCOTB into NYRA's operations as they may actually get Patterson to push to do the right thing here. If the media jumps on board and exposes the bloated patronage machine that NYCOTB is, combined with the fact that Frucher has burned his bridges in Albany, it would seem like it is possible it could get done.
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05-25-2010, 12:00 PM
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Might as well merge the entire OTB network into NYRA, or alternatively give Western OTB to Finger Lakes and the rest to NYRA.
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05-25-2010, 12:07 PM
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05-25-2010, 12:23 PM
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05-25-2010, 12:29 PM
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05-26-2010, 11:55 AM
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Reports if anybody is interested in reading it (VERY dry and boring, of course, but some salient points made)
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05-25-2010, 02:00 PM
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That being said, with the mess that Frucher has created NYCOTB will probably never be more ripe for the opportunity to merge into the racetracks. Considering that the other regional OTB's are also crying they are paying too much to the tracks, it would be nice to see this BS backfire and for the legislature to eliminate all of them, cut out the middleman, apportion the business amongst the state's tracks and reduce the takeout as well on off track wagers (which likely would even lead to more handle and more profit to the tracks). I can't see why NYRA and the other tracks could not assume the union contracts and then be subject to negotiating them when they expire which would then have no affect on the unions with regard to a merger, effectively neutralizing them. More of an obstacle in my lay opinion (and I only am a layperson making suggestions based upon common sense) is the patronage issue, even if the unions are so far up the Democrats azzes with their contributions such that the legislators bow to their unreasonable wishes. If the media really exposed the patronage problem it could force the legislators to eliminate it while having the benefit of giving the tracks the ability to sustain themselves and stop or severely reduce the drain the industry would put on the State. While this makes too much sense, such things are only fantasies when they would severely hurt contributions to corrupt politicians. Since Patterson has nothing to lose, he might relish in eliminating the patronage to those who turned on him, but I realize that I am dreaming.
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05-26-2010, 11:49 AM
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Q&A with New York City OTB chairman Frucher
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