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Fight For Online Poker Rights! A Weekly Action Plan
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Fight for Online Poker Rights!! Week of 6/2
http://theengineer.theppa.org/fight-for-online-poker/Want to stand up for your rights but have only 60 seconds? Go to /letter, either type your info or click your AutoFill button, then click "submit". You'll send the PPA letter to both of your Senators and to your Congressman. It takes literally one minute!
1. Register to vote, and get your friends to register. You can change anything if you don’t vote! Register at http://www.poker2008.org. Once registering, please post the voter registration site information wherever possible.
2. Please write to newspapers, post to websites, and digg friendly articles. Libertarian positions seem to finally getting more media attention, so let’s be sure to tap into that.
3. Let’s continue building the pro-poker online social network. We’ll be able to use this to share our pro-liberty message through the Netroots to a demographic that is very supportive of us.To participate, simply sign up for digg and add me as your friend. Sign up at http://digg.com/register, then add me by going to http://digg.com/users/PPA2 and clicking "add friend" at the top right of the page. (If you already have me as your friend as “TheEngineer2008”, there’s no need to add me again as PPA2). You can build your personal pro-poker network by finding others who share our beliefs regarding poker and liberty and adding them as your friends.
You can find pro-liberty/pro-poker diggers by checking who’s digging pro-liberty/pro-poker articles. Simply add them and their friends to your friends list. You can have 1,001 friends max, but can only send “shouts” to 200 at a time. As individually selecting 200 recipients is tedious, I recommend choosing around 400 max friends. This will result in fewer than 200 recipients for shouts (fewer than half permit shouts). Once you’re up and running, other digg users with similar interests will request to join your network. Make sure to digg submissions of people who digg our stuff. Over time, you’ll be able to build a nice network of 200 people who’ll stand for freedom.
I'll send shout-outs on pro-poker articles and issues. When you get a shout, click the "digg" icon to digg the article. Then click "share" (same as “shouting”, but with the link to the article) and send it to your network by choosing “select all”. By doing this, we can interlink many personal networks into one large network! If you find an article or have information you wish to share with the network, simply digg the article, click “share” and either choose me (PPA2 or TheEngineer2008) or chose all (including PPA2 or TheEngineer2008). I’ll blast it through the network.
In addition to the benefit of spreading our message, if we get just a few hundred folks to participate, we'll be able to regularly push PPA articles onto the Digg Political News front page, where it will be seen by tens of thousands of folks.
4. Please write to your PPA state director to let him/her know you're available to pitch in. His or her email address is XX@theppa.org, where XX is the state abbreviation. You can also sign up at /volunteer.
Thanks everyone!Contact Info:
Your senators: http://www.senate.gov
Your representative: http://www.house.gov
The PPA letter: /letterHouse Financial Services Committee
Democratic Staff
2129 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Ph: (202) 225-4247
Fax: (202) 225-6952Committee on Financial Services - Republicans
B371a Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-7502Posted 2 years ago # -
Special Alert:
The House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection is holding a hearing on horse racing on June 19th at 10 am. The hearing will include discussion of the industry's UIGEA "carve out".
Let's all email and call (no time for snail mail) Congress prior to the hearing to tell them that this carve out is not as strong as the industry thinks it is. Let's tell them that we expect to be part of any new deals that fix things for horseracing, while pointing out the hypocrisy of the current situation.
Some points:
* The carve-out isn't effective.
* Banks will overblock many horseracing transactions under UIGEA, both because it's expedient and because a fatal flaw in the carve-out requires that horse racing transactions fully comply with IHA to be exempt...a determination banks aren't equipped or inclined to make.
* The DoJ says online interstate horse race wagering violates the Wire Act. If banks ask the DoJ for clarification, that's what they'll be told.
* Even though UIGEA says banks don't HAVE to block horse racing transactions, will banks choose to process these transactions if they've been told that the horseracing industry is violating the Wire Act and if the UIGEA regulations leave defining UIG totally up to banks?
* Opponents of the horseracing carve-out in Congress will continue to attack it in hearings like next week's House hearing. They'll use it to expose the hypocrisy of federal online gaming law.
* Once opponents of all gaming like Focus on the Family smell blood, they'll fight horseracing's exemption as well. Many in Congress would struggle trying to justify online horseracing while simultaneously opposing other gaming on "moral" grounds.
* The Congressional coalition that helped horseracing pass its carve-out in 2006 no longer exists. The industry can't go back for a new carve-out. Federal law has to be updated, and horseracing will have to work with all of us if they want that to happen.Links:
* The hearing: http://energycommerce.house.gov/membios/schedule.shtml (there will be an audio webcast)
* The story: http://www.kentucky.com/216/story/431467.html
* Congress: http://www.house.gov and http://www.senate.govPosted 2 years ago # -
Fight for Online Poker Rights!! Week of 6/29
Want to stand up for your rights but have only 60 seconds? Go to /letter , either type your info or click your AutoFill button, then click "submit". You'll send the PPA letter to both of your Senators and to your Congressman. It takes literally one minute!
ALERT!!
On Wednesday, a key Congressional committee voted on a bill supported by the Poker Players Alliance that would have required the federal government to define what types of Internet gaming are unlawful prior to implementation of the deeply flawed Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. However, despite the best efforts of America's poker players, the Committee rejected the bill in a heartbreakingly close 32-32 tie vote.
We had America's poker players, the banking community, freedom lovers, and the truth on our side. Our opponents had only false rhetoric and unfounded fears. Unfortunately, fear trumped facts – this time. We’ve come a long way from the dark days before PPA existed, when poker lost votes in Congress from anywhere from 4-1 to 10-1. We’re coming on strong, and the momentum is ours. To keep this momentum, let's take the next step in this fight. Let's all stand up and be counted.
* We ALL need to write and call Congress this week. Congress needs an earful from outraged constituents. Go to /letter .
* If you're not a full PPA member, please upgrade your membership now.
* Sign up to volunteer at /volunteer .Contact Info:
Your senators: http://www.senate.gov
Your representative: http://www.house.gov
The PPA letter: /letterHouse Financial Services Committee
Democratic Staff
2129 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Ph: (202) 225-4247
Fax: (202) 225-6952Committee on Financial Services - Republicans
B371a Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-7502Posted 1 year ago # -
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