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njcurveball
01-24-2008, 06:56 PM
This letter from the New Jersey Horse Alliance was sent to NJ Governor
Jon Corzine today [January 24]. Please visit www.sboanj.com for
information and updates.

January 24, 2008

Honorable Jon Corzine
Governor of NJ
Office of the Governor
PO Box 001
Trenton, NJ 08625

Dear Governor Corzine,

The horse industry in New Jersey realizes that you and your staff are
very busy trying to correct the fiscal crisis that you inherited when
you took office. On a much smaller scale, we are faced with our own
fiscal crisis that you promised to help with, as early as last summer; and
have repeatedly reaffirmed that viewpoint. This included the private
meeting held with Dennis Drazin, Thomas Luchento and other industry
leaders, legislators and members of your cabinet at Drumthwacket.

Frankly, the Horse Industry Alliance is puzzled and disappointed with
the lack of progress to date. We are now entering into the fourth week
of 2008 without a supplement or commitment from the casino industry;
this has necessitated both Freehold Raceway and the state’s own track, the
Meadowlands, to lower purses effective the first of February to levels
that will not allow our industry to remain competitive with
surrounding states. Thoroughbred horsemen will not return to Monmouth Park from
their winter training centers in the south and from other states without
a viable, competitive purse structure; and the Standardbred horsemen
will be shipping out to Ontario, Chicago and Pennsylvania in search of
purses that will allow them to feed their families and pay their staff a
decent wage.

We are not “crying wolf”; a real and imminent disaster is about to
happen in New Jersey.

If the lowered purse structure remains as reported yesterday, the
Meadowlands will have to cancel the premier events scheduled at the track.
Races like the Hambletonian and Breeders Crown will need to find a venue
outside of New Jersey, to hold these and hundreds of stakes races that
bring the best horses in the world to our tracks. Horsemen could no
longer allow the large expenditure from purse accounts needed to support
these world class events that bring national attention to our great
state.

This is a sobering thought for all involved. We are on the edge of
collapse of the entire horse industry in New Jersey. Non-racing entities
which currently thrive in New Jersey, would inadequately be able to
support the top-shelf infrastructure the entire $4 billion industry
supports.

We need your attention to our plight and we need it to happen now,
while there is still an industry to save.

Very truly yours,


Thomas F. Luchento, President, SBOA of NJ
Dennis Drazin, President, THA
Karyn Malinowski, Ph.D.,Director, Rutgers University Equine Science
Center

Javagold
01-24-2008, 07:45 PM
Ha Ha Dennis you waited too long to do anything and you believed this liar of a governor and now you say you are not crying Wolf.
where were you when the OTB and phone betting were supposed to be up and running 7 years ago after you begged the citizens to pass this into law.
i feel sorry for none of you, you all get what you deserve, including awful weather during the BCup 2007.Game Over !!!

garyoz
01-24-2008, 09:01 PM
Jon Corzine...another example of Goldman Sach's finest....they all suck...and they all want to run the world. Rubin at Citi, Paulsen at Treasury...what a joke.

Don't hold your breath on a bailout. Jersey t-bred racing has been in really bad downward spiral. Maybe a mercy killing would be best.

JustRalph
01-24-2008, 09:07 PM
how do you expect a man who can't figure out how important it is to wear a seatbelt, to save an industry............. :lol:

Stevie Belmont
01-24-2008, 09:28 PM
This is horrible. I would also suggest sending letters to Dick Codey.

He is an ally of the sport and could push Corzine to do something. Corzine owes Codey. Codey had to step down as governor in order for Corzine to run. Im not sure Codey wanted to do that.

Codey was doing a good job as governor. It's too bad he had to go. Anyway I would go to Codey as well.

I have faith something will get done.

alysheba88
01-25-2008, 09:59 AM
Ha Ha Dennis you waited too long to do anything and you believed this liar of a governor and now you say you are not crying Wolf.
where were you when the OTB and phone betting were supposed to be up and running 7 years ago after you begged the citizens to pass this into law.
i feel sorry for none of you, you all get what you deserve, including awful weather during the BCup 2007.Game Over !!!

Did someone drop you on your head as a child? So much rage

Kelso
01-26-2008, 12:37 AM
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Horsemen to meet on possible track boycott tomorrow | APP.com | Asbury Park Press (http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080125/NEWS/80125098)

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From the article:
"A boycott of the state's racetracks will be discussed Saturday at an emrgency meeting of the group representing harness racing horsemen, with members saying it would be a way to protest the lack of action by Gov. Corzine's administration on delivering subsidies for race purses.

"... Racing officials have pushed to have video lottery terminals installed at the Meadowlands to help prop up the industry with a new source of revenue.

"That proposal lacks Corzine's backing, however. Corzine had said he instead wants to provide subsidies to the state's horse-racing and breeding industries, with the government and the Atlantic City casinos splitting the costs."



Just what New Jersey needs ... the horse industry on the government teat, rather than simply competing on an even footing with NY/PA/DEL.

Corzine is an economic horse's ass.

phatbastard
01-26-2008, 05:49 AM
not on government teat.......casino funds promised to stop movement for VLT's at their tracks.....

Kelso
01-26-2008, 01:30 PM
not on government teat.......casino funds promised to stop movement for VLT's at their tracks.....


When Corzine wants "the government and the Atlantic City casinos splitting the costs" ... at least one teat is protruding from Trenton.

Furthermore, "casino funds promised to stop movement for VLT's" is history. That deal has expired.

Doc
01-26-2008, 01:31 PM
Quite frankly the Atlantic City casino lobby has been sucking on more than the Jersey government's teat for quite some time, now, and every governor who's been in office since casino gambling was legalized in the 1970's has protected that industry to the detriment of the horse industry. As a prime example, no governor has ever supported VLTs at venues other than in Atlantic City. So stop directing all this rage at Corzine ... his predecessors were equally to blame for the disintegration of the Garden State racing industry. Just check out Christie Whitman's racing legacy.

Doc

David-LV
01-26-2008, 01:52 PM
Quite frankly the Atlantic City casino lobby has been sucking on more than the Jersey government's teat for quite some time, now, and every governor who's been in office since casino gambling was legalized in the 1970's has protected that industry to the detriment of the horse industry. As a prime example, no governor has ever supported VLTs at venues other than in Atlantic City. So stop directing all this rage at Corzine ... his predecessors were equally to blame for the disintegration of the Garden State racing industry. Just check out Christie Whitman's racing legacy.

Doc


These politicians must be at the top of the list when it comes to all the freebies that these Atlantic City Casinos hand out.

_______
David

Doc
01-26-2008, 01:57 PM
Personally, I've always thought that their palms have been greased so thickly that they've been willing to protect the AyCee casinos as much as possible. But they couldn't protect them from the expanded gaming in Pa., De. and NY, which hurt the casino business last year.Doc

Kelso
01-26-2008, 02:00 PM
stop directing all this rage at Corzine ... his predecessors were equally to blame for the disintegration of the Garden State racing industry.


I don't disagree that Jersey has been run by charlatans and crooks for several decades, now and that they've all contributed to the decline of the horse industry in the state. However, Corzine is the one in the hot seat now ... he asked for it ... and he hasn't done a damned thing right the past two years.

jma
01-26-2008, 02:40 PM
I don't disagree that Jersey has been run by charlatans and crooks for several decades, now and that they've all contributed to the decline of the horse industry in the state. However, Corzine is the one in the hot seat now ... he asked for it ... and he hasn't done a damned thing right the past two years.

Doc's right though...it didn't start with Corzine, it's been the case since the casinos opened and they hired lobbyists. Not that we can't complain about Corzine, but compared to Christie and some of the past crooks, he's a saint.

David-LV
01-26-2008, 03:06 PM
What does it say for the people that keep voting these crooks into office.

_______
David

njcurveball
01-26-2008, 03:15 PM
What does it say for the people that keep voting these crooks into office.


Basically Corzine bought the election and since he was a Democrat, the Bush backlash also aided him.

What does it say when 50% of the voters make an informed opinion and the other 50% simply vote for the name they have heard the most?

Dollars to donuts, many of the people voting for Corzine, could not even name the other candidate.

Same thing happens in other states and the Presidential election as well.

But basically it says a 2 party system was good in 1800, but doesn't work too well in 2008.

Perhaps a better question is what does it say about those who did not vote for Doug Forrester?

I can tell you where he (Forrester) lost a lot of voters and that was in pushing to allow businesses to make their own smoking rules. We went down that path in another thread, but when it impacts everyone, smokers are in a vast minority, even other smokers vote to prohibit smoking in public places.

skate
01-26-2008, 06:53 PM
This letter from the New Jersey Horse Alliance was sent to NJ Governor
Jon Corzine today [January 24]. Please visit www.sboanj.com (http://www.sboanj.com/) for
information and updates.

January 24, 2008

Honorable Jon Corzine
Governor of NJ
Office of the Governor
PO Box 001
Trenton, NJ 08625

Dear Governor Corzine,



Non-racing entities
which currently thrive in New Jersey, would inadequately be able to
support the top-shelf infrastructure the entire $4 billion industry
supports.





Corzine gets this letter and unless he already knows "what you want", he is simply going to do what he is doing now. Oh, sure you know, but what are you asking? Help will not happen, without "Public" support.
Public does not know what to do either.

The sentence above comes from your letter, Corzine's answer might go like "so what".


i can understand that everyone thinks (because you told him) he really knows and if he does, then you dont need another letter.

Public support, or the hwy.


i can feel the frustration and wish you the best.

garyoz
01-26-2008, 07:20 PM
he's a saint.

Please explain Corzine's sainthood.

njcurveball
01-26-2008, 08:19 PM
i can feel the frustration and wish you the best.

Just for clarification. It was not sent by an individual.

This letter from the New Jersey Horse Alliance was sent to NJ
Governor Jon Corzine

skate
01-27-2008, 06:52 PM
Just for clarification. It was not sent by an individual.

This letter from the New Jersey Horse Alliance was sent to NJ
Governor Jon Corzine



I understand that part..........but a few hundred people...

Well, i'm just going from past experience and with that said , i should shut up.

Good luck:ThmbUp:

skate
01-27-2008, 06:55 PM
What does it say for the people that keep voting these crooks into office.

_______
David


Made my day...:ThmbUp: :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp: