You got to wonder about this

[Robert Goren]

Bonacic said the Senate GOP plan will call for the first three casinos to be restricted to, in order of when they would be licensed by the state, to Sullivan County in the Catskill Mountains, the Tioga area west of Binghamton, and the Saratoga/Washington County area north of Albany. All three are home to harness track-based gaming facilities that can VLTs but not table games.

Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/78135/ny-bill-would-tab-tracks-for-full-casinos?source=rss#ixzz2Shbsi87R

You think if you are going build a full scale casino in New York state that the first place you would want to put it is in the NYC area. That is where they would get the most money. Well, it is a GOP plan, so we should not expect it to be a smart one. Maybe they figure NYC already has the world's biggest casino in the NYSE, so why build another one. Otherwise this plan makes no sense to me.

[Tom]

In NYS, the only thing that matters is cronyism.
NYS is immune to logic and common sense.

These are the MORONS who pissed away millions if not billions of dollars hold up NYRA VLTs for 10 years.

Stupidity rules the roost here.

[Ocala Mike]

What Tom said.

Just turn the clock back to 1970, and consider what they came up with for Off-Track Betting in the state. Makes the Iralian city-state system of medieval times look progressive!

[RaceBookJoe]

You just have to love my homestate :

http://online.wsj.com/article/APfb3250523b8848778007eac0ea4d28c5.html

[SchagFactorToWin]

Robert,

Back when this casino plan was announced, I thought it was a plan to get the Indian casinos back to the table. Some of them are holding back payments and this seemed to me a way to get them to pay up and maybe renegotiate. Guess not. Of course, they're not built yet.