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Old 03-10-2010, 08:27 AM
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Neverending this story. Just like the OTB nonsense.
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Old 03-10-2010, 08:49 AM
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Racing in NY will be fine because the product is good and getting better. NYRA is addressing serving the bettor. NYRA does have people in place that want to make sure the product is good. NYRA isn't perfect but how can you be when you are broke and are required to beg for money instead of running your business to earn..Its totally unfair how do you run a business if nothing the state promises ever comes true? If they told them tomorrow NO SLOTS EVER at least they could develop a plan..Unti then they are going to beg the state for money and eventually the State will borrow more money they don't have to make the thing solvent for a while longer? Belmont isn't going to stop racing!
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Old 03-10-2010, 05:10 PM
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How funny the state politicos are... NOW these morons spout off about 'urgency'... The previous EIGHT YEARS didn't provide enough of an opportunity to get this done. Laughable frauds.

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NY Lawmakers Want Urgency in Casino Decision
By Tom Precious

Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:45 PM
Posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:45 PM

State lawmakers March 10 urged Gov. David Paterson, who is considering pulling the plug on Aqueduct Entertainment Group’s casino deal at Aqueduct, to pick from one of the remaining bidders if the AEG contract is scuttled.

“We need to move from the other choices available. There’s no reason to start from scratch again,’’ Sen. Eric Adams, a Brooklyn Democrat and chairman of the Senate’s racing committee, said if Paterson and legislative leaders kill the AEG deal.

The state’s Lottery Division has told aides to Paterson that it does not believe AEG can obtain the licenses it needs from the agency to run the Aqueduct casino.

Sources said the agency, among it concerns, raised issues with Karl O’Farrell, an Australian businessman who ran Capital Play, which bid on a previous Aqueduct casino project. AEG officials have sought to assure lottery officials that O’Farrell has no role with its current bid.
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Old 03-10-2010, 08:14 PM
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"We've gotta protect our phoney-baloney jobs, gentlemen, we must do something about this immediately!"
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Old 03-11-2010, 10:15 AM
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'Unlicensable' AEG may be bounced from struggling Aqueduct racino project as early as today (Wednesday)

The group chosen to run the Aqueduct racino failed to clear all the state's hurdles and could be bounced as soon as Wednesday, the Daily News has learned.

The news comes a day after high-profile investors Jay-Z and Queens Rev. Floyd Flake ran away from the project.

The Lottery Division last night forwarded a memo to Gov. Paterson's chief of staff, Larry Schwartz, and chief counsel, Peter Kiernan, stating that Aqueduct Entertainment Group is "unlicensable" for numerous reasons, a source told The News.

A second source said Schwartz and Kiernan - who have final say for the administration after Paterson revealed yesterday he recused himself from any involvement in the project - had not made a final decision as of Tuesday night, but that "a decision could be made as early as [today] as to what the fate of AEG will be."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010...#ixzz0hsx1Tp2S
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Old 03-11-2010, 10:28 AM
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Shocking development, who would have thought that AEG wasn't appropriate to run a casino?
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Old 03-11-2010, 10:37 AM
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It's so sad.. Now this has to begin again get rebid get re investigated and that will take time. So expect that NYRA will be at the State Legislature begging for money to run a meet. Expect policticians to grandstand and push their agenda and expect in the 24th hour after all the blowhards posture themselves for their pending campaigns that the State delves NYRA money to proceed..
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