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Old 05-29-2011, 12:28 PM   #1
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Thumbs up Weekend Action Plan: Tell the DoJ, CT Gov. Malloy & MD Gov. O'Malley to back us!

Weekend of May 25th

Let's all be sure to participate in the community daily action plan! It is an easy, effective way for us to magnify our individual voices. By organizing, we have succeeded in securing virtually 100% of political social media poker discourse. State and federal lawmakers have noticed!
  1. Let's retweet & favorite today's action plan HERE, HERE, and HERE, share it on our Facebook walls HERE, and share it via Google+ HERE.
  2. Let's send today's prefilled tweets to the DoJ asking for action on Full Tilt Poker player remission! HERE and HERE
  3. Let's send CT Gov. Dan Malloy & MD Gov. Martin O'Malley prefilled poker tweets too: HERE and HERE
  4. Let's keep making & liking poker posts on PA Gov. Tom Corbett's Facebook wall: HERE
  5. Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others. Thanks for participating!


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Old 05-29-2011, 12:28 PM   #2
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

May 28, 2011

I recorded a video with an update on the poker rights fight, plus some Q&A. It's at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGZ0ZqBMJGA.

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Old 05-29-2011, 12:48 PM   #3
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA-R9OS-Vo
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Old 05-29-2011, 01:10 PM   #4
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

How about your board members get us back our FTP money?

Until that happens, it shows how weak and flaccid the PPA is.
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Old 05-29-2011, 08:15 PM   #5
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

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How about your board members get us back our FTP money?

Until that happens, it shows how weak and flaccid the PPA is.
First of all, this isn't a PPA action. It's one I'm putting together personally, based on what I'm hearing from the 2+2 posting community. Secondly, PPA has publicly called for FTP, AB and UB repay us our money. I'm glad we did.
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Old 05-29-2011, 09:24 PM   #6
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

Ferguson and Lederer are no longer on the board. I hope everyone helps, poker players are doing a great job with the facebook walls.
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Old 05-29-2011, 09:40 PM   #7
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

Legalized online poker in the USA is good for every poker player, everywhere.

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Old 05-29-2011, 09:41 PM   #8
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

I just posted this:

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Originally Posted by My post on the Energy and Commerce FB wall
I don't need big government to seek to ban online poker and I definitely don't need the watchful eye of the government on my activities inside my own home.

I met with my Congressman's staff earlier this week to ask for his support the upcoming bill by Rep. Barton licensing online poker. I ask that the entire committee support this important legislation.

Many other poker players are ensuring that they are being heard as well. We care, and we vote.
I hope we'll all post on these Facebook walls to let our lawmakers know where we stand. If you like the post I made, please "like" it at http://www.facebook.com/energyandcom...50261688056311. Thanks!
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Old 05-29-2011, 10:17 PM   #9
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

http://www.facebook.com/energyandcommerce
http://www.facebook.com/GOPFinancialServices
http://www.facebook.com/DOJ?sk=wall&filter=1
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Old 05-30-2011, 10:44 AM   #10
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

Tomorrow's action plan will be to start contacting mainstream media to ask them to cover this issue in more depth.
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Old 05-30-2011, 01:50 PM   #11
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

Congrats on being part of an impotent organization. Nice cash grab from the poker sites that supported this movement.
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Old 05-30-2011, 01:57 PM   #12
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Congrats on being part of an impotent organization. Nice cash grab from the poker sites that supported this movement.
First of all, PPA isn't a "they"...it's a "we". It's our shared fight, and we have a very tough fight on our hands.

Consider where we started. UIGEA passed the House in 2006 by a vote of 317-93, and it was a free standing bill at that time (it was HR 4411). Politicians openly and proudly opposed us, and they only do that when they think there is ZERO downside to doing so. Anti-online poker folks did a good job of building a coalition against us. The GOP even put a plank in its platform advocating a ban on online gaming.

With this starting point, it was not reasonable to think poker players could turn this around overnight. Rather, we started a process by which we could build support for our position, and that was better than doing nothing (in other words, initiating the fight was the maximum EV option of the choices available to us).

So, what's happened over the past three years. Well, Congress had heard from us loud and clear. We poker players are on offense in Congress, which is our best defense. No bills have been proposed against us since 2006, after years of anti-poker bills (see http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/15...ker-rights-ppa). To the contrary -- all the bills now proposed are pro-poker.

On the media front, coverage used to be completely against us. We now get our opinion mentioned in pretty much every article now. I write a regular column for BigGovernment.com myself, at http://biggovernment.com/author/rmuny.

So, if you think PPA could use a hand, wouldn't it make sense to step up and help fight back?

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Old 05-30-2011, 06:09 PM   #13
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

Mighty Maron, if it is impotent then we poker players are the ones to blame. I have followed the PPA closely since the Bolcarek era and they have made tremendous strides. The fraction of poker players who do care enough to call our Congressmen do a pretty good job, but if we werent so lazy as a group, we would be a huge force on the hill.

The PPA isnt the only organization out there, so if you do care for your rights I suggest finding one or creating your own.
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Old 05-30-2011, 06:52 PM   #14
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Wow, if people actually do this it could be very effective. It's one of those things, like voting, where it starts with you, each and every one of us.

Glad this seems to be getting out in the forums now. I think I'll follow just for that.

Rich, I'm now subscribed to this by posting, is there a way I could now be "tied" into each new plan? I think it would be a great reminder for me. I check my email each day when I get up so this would be included.

What I'm looking for is a way to be reminded what each day's action call is. I suppose I could go to PL and look, but for me it's not the same as actually getting an email reminder.

I'll think about this a bit more and see if there's a way. You could make a "ghost" post to send out an email notification that the thread was bumped (but just delete the post) if the day's plan hadn't changed from the previous day. IDK, I'll think about it. Maybe a twitter account?
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Old 05-31-2011, 12:40 AM   #15
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Re: Fight for Poker Rights: Weekend of May 28th (see post #1 for today's plan) [O/T]

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Rich, I'm now subscribed to this by posting, is there a way I could now be "tied" into each new plan? I think it would be a great reminder for me. I check my email each day when I get up so this would be included.

What I'm looking for is a way to be reminded what each day's action call is. I suppose I could go to PL and look, but for me it's not the same as actually getting an email reminder.
You could change your subscription setting to include an email notification. I do post the day's action item within the thread, so it will come via email.
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