New York State: Another Get Rich Quick Scheme

Never filled with qualms about community destruction caused by the Get Rich Quick Scheme of gambling with the accompanying crime, New York State seeks to solve their historic fiscal mismanagement with yet more gambling - this time to subsidize horse racing and the hook is a common one, EDUCATION FUNDING.

Race tracks that currently have slot machines are seeking expanded gambling to include table games, waving the added revenue before lawmakers.

Below is a partial list of full and part-time employees. Not what one would expect.

NY Tracks Trotting Out Benefits Of Racinos

By JOSEPH SPECTOR
Albany Bureau Chief

ALBANY -- In a bid to build support for getting full-scale casinos, the state's nine racetracks released a report Thursday touting the tracks' economic benefits.

The report said the tracks had 5,431 full- and part-time employees in 2011. After expenses, the tracks provided to the state $593 million, which is designated for public education, state records show.

....said James Featherstonhaugh, the group's president, a prominent Albany lobbyist and part owner of the Saratoga Race Track.

The study was conducted by Appleseed Inc., a Manhattan firm headed by Hugh O'Neill, a former aide to Govs. Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo.



9 TRACKS

5,431 EMPLOYEES


Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway had 1,109 employees

The number of jobs at the other tracks included:
-- Monticello Raceway in Sullivan County had 310 full and part-time workers.
-- Tioga Downs Casino in Nichols, Tioga County, had 249 jobs.
-- Finger Lakes Racetrack in Farmington, Ontario County, had 514 employees.
-- Hamburg Casino at Buffalo Raceway had 309 jobs.
-- Batavia Downs in Genesee County had 313 employees.

TOTAL 2804 at 6 tracks

2627 ? at the remaining 3 tracks?