Marco from QJs wrote up a nice story on Mitt Romney's opposition, at http://www.quadjacks.com/2012/02/03/...o-hypocritical

Don't forget that Ron Paul SUPPORTS our right to online gaming!

Thank him here:

https://www.facebook.com/ronpaul?sk=wall&filter=12

The president has little control over online gaming laws. He is not going to stick his neck out there and become an advocate for online gaming, too much backlash and political liability.

The best hope is to get congressman and senators to support poker friendly bills. Even if they have to justify it as a way to drum up tax revenue for stretched government budgets, whatever works.

Some of ron pauls ideas I love, but because of voting laws in the US and the first-past-the-post voting system, ron paul and any 3rd party cadidate doesn't have a chance to get elected. sad but true.

Write letters to congress.

For today, let's start telling the Payroll Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance, and Medicare Physicians Payment Fix Conference Committee to look at online poker as a possible revenue source.

The committee needs to resolve this by the end of February, so the timing is perfect for us. They need funding, which also works for us. And, if they don't act, we still benefit by the effort itself, as the members of the conference committee are leaders in the House and Senate!

These take just a couple of minutes each, so thanks for participating:

1. Let's send the Conference Committee members + Sen. Reid & Sen. McConnell tweets urging inclusion of federal online poker legislation: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
2. Let's post and like pro-poker comments on the Facebook walls of Conference Committee members Sen. Baucus and Sen. Crapo HERE and HERE.
3. Let's tell Mitt Romney what we think of his anti-poker statements (read more here) on his Facebook wall HERE.
   
4. Let's send a NEW prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE.

Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others to participate. The past 144 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!


Payroll Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance, and Medicare Physicians Payment Fix Conference Committee Members:

• Senate Republicans: Jon Kyl, Mike Crapo, and John Barrasso
• Senate Democrats: Max Baucus, Ben Cardin, Jack Reed, and Bob Casey
• House Republicans: Dave Camp, Fred Upton, Kevin Brady, Greg Walden, Tom Price, Thomas Reed, Renee Ellmers, and Nan Hayworth
• House Democrats: Sander Levin, Xavier Becerra, Chris Van Hollen, Henry Waxman, and Allyson Schwartz

Done.

Done for saturday

Tweets sent.

@harryreid and @SenatorReid are both good. We should send tweets to both. HERE is one to @SenatorReid that I just now added to the action plan.

Done!

done

Let's continue telling the Payroll Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance, and Medicare Physicians Payment Fix Conference Committee to include online poker in their discussions. The committee needs to resolve this matter by the end of February, so the timing is perfect for us.

If they don't act, we still benefit by the effort itself, as the members of the conference committee are leaders in the House and Senate! These take just a couple of minutes each, so thanks for participating:

1. Let's send the Conference Committee members + Sen. Reid & Sen. McConnell tweets urging inclusion of federal online poker legislation: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
2. Let's post and like pro-poker comments on the Facebook walls of Conference Committee members Rep. Brady, Rep. Walden and Sen. Casey HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
3. Let's send a NEW prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE.

Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others to participate. The past 145 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!


Conference Committee Members:

Republicans:

• Sen. Jon Kyl [Facebook]
• Sen. Mike Crapo [Facebook] [Post for commenting]
• Sen. John Barrasso [Facebook]
• Rep. Dave Camp: [Facebook] [Facebook]
• Rep. Fred Upton [Facebook] [Facebook]
• Rep. Kevin Brady [Facebook] [Post for commenting]
• Rep. Greg Walden [Facebook] [Post for commenting]
• Rep. Tom Price [Facebook] [Post for commenting]
• Rep. Thomas Reed [Facebook]
• Rep. Renee Ellmers [Facebook]
• Rep. Nan Hayworth [Facebook]

Democrats:

• Sen. Max Baucus [Facebook] [Post for commenting]
• Sen. Ben Cardin [Facebook]
• Sen. Jack Reed [No Facebook]
• Sen. Bob Casey [Facebook] Facebook] [Post for commenting]
• Rep. Sander Levin [Facebook]
• Rep. Xavier Becerra [Facebook] [Post for commenting]
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen [Facebook]
• Rep. Henry Waxman [Facebook] [Post for commenting]
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz [No Facebook]

Did it all.

I updated the listing of senators' Facebook pages: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...4&postcount=44

The Monday action plan will include:

• Let's post and like pro-poker comments on the Facebook walls of Sen. Ayotte, Sen. Begich, Sen. Bennet, Sen. Bingaman, and Sen. Blumenthal: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE (I'll update this just prior to posting for walls where we'll be posting comments to existing posts.)
  

There are several senators whom we've reached via Twitter but not (yet) via a formal Facebook action. I think we can gain by picking them up over the next few weeks.

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