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Normally i like what Engineer's doing, but today's action plan is really messed up imo. The payroll tax committee NEEDS more revenue??? Oh really? I don't know why it would even matter given that they are in charge of social security and medicare and any taxes gambling co's pay should go towards corporate income tax. We don't need more ridiculous taxes. It isn't worth legalizing internet poker if it has absurd taxes.

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There will clearly be some taxes associated with online poker. As such, surely it makes sense for us to put the issue in front of this committee.

@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.

We all have different political philosophies. That's why the tweets are editable. For today's plan, perhaps you could simply copy-and-paste this into the tweets to conservative lawmakers: "@xxxxxx: Grover Norquist on why conservatives should oppose big government efforts to ban online #poker: http://t.co/hGn2tsiW #HR2366"

ok, thats fair, i was just concerned about the taxes becoming too much.

Yes, we all want taxes to be as low as possible. IMO federal legislation is the lowest tax route available.

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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]

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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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