CRIST: (Updated: Bruno proposal)

[Kasept]

Steve Crist, who thankfully answers to exactly no one, brilliantly captured last week's latest nonsense from Albany regarding the franchise and the State Senate Republicans embarassing behavior in his Sunday DRF column.

I'd love to post it, but should not. Here's the link for those with a DRF subscription: http://www.drf.com/drfNewsArticle.do?NID=89405

Senate Majority magpie Joe Bruno said in September that 'other interested parties' with 'tremendous experience running racing' deserved to be a part of the NY picture. So Joe, with Magna, Churchill and Delaware North ALL leaving Empire, and Richard Fields abandoning Exselsior to concentrate on Suffolk, exactly who is left with 'tremendous expreience running racing' that deserves a hand in NY racing?

Joe has no answer, but now the NYS GOP have a new idea about trimming down the slots money that goes to racing and beefing up the portion that goes to the eventual slots operator. Crist quickly sees through this and asks: Who is being quietly lined up behind the scenes to get the Aqueduct contract, and have the politicians been promised something in exchange for cutting them an even larger slice of the pie?


If possible, those without a DRF plan should try to get to this piece.. It again demonstrates what a sad farce we're experiencing here in NY.