The reason we are in this horrid position is not because of the players who sign the petitions, tweet, post, call, write and email. It is because of the ones who don’t. Where are those millions? “RiverAnAce”

My friend, forum poster RiverAnAce, has it right. There is a lot of lobbying going on right now on Capitol Hill. We have a terrific opportunity to enhance the effectiveness of those efforts by telling lawmakers that the American people demand the right to play licensed online poker in their own homes on their own computers!

Last week, I asked you to sign a pro-poker online petition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, Speaker of the House John Boehner, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. We had a great week, getting almost 5,000 signatures. I thank everyone who signed it.

I believe we can do even more. Will you help out? If you signed already, will you ask your friends and family to sign individually? Will you ask your spouse/significant other to sign individually as well? And, if you did not yet sign it, will you please sign now without delay?

Simply CLICK HERE to sign the petition. Then, if you did not last week, please help promote it via the prefilled Twitter message HERE and by sharing the post HERE on your Facebook wall. It is that simple!



More questions from fellow poker enthusiasts on the rationale and effectiveness of this online petition:

The Change.org Terms of Service allow them to provide our names to recipients. Why is that?

Change.org is a big, well regarded petition site. The term of use and the privacy policy are a bit atypical, mainly because – by definition – they provide our names to the recipients. After all, it is a petition. Still, all they will provide is what you input, which is name, address, and email address. Aside from the email address, you would provide that in any petition you sign, and you would provide your email address in any email to the recipients of the this particular petition. So, there is really no difference in that regard.

I would not ask anyone to do anything I would not do. My wife and I each signed the petition from our personal email accounts. I feel the site T&Cs are fine and had no reservations in signing it at all.

Why partner with Change.org?

PPA has not partnered with Change.org. Change.org is seen on Capitol Hill as large, credible nonpartisan petition site, so it makes sense for us to make use of this free tool. I often use Twitter and Facebook for the Poker Daily Action Plan in a similar manner. Use of those free tools does not constitute a PPA endorsement for those specific sites either, of course.

The Change.org Terms and Conditions specify that data is stored in the U.S. Any idea why?

From my review, it appears simply to be stating that international users are consenting to data they input to be stored on U.S. based servers. I believe this is because EU privacy laws differ from U.S. ones, so the site is making it clear that international users can expect privacy practices to be based on U.S. law and not on EU law.

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