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Originally Posted by ChicagoRy
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PPA may not be awesome, I don't really know for sure, but I don't think you do either. Yet you blindly hate on them all over the place.
Honestly, you may be bringing more harm to the PPA by posting all this nonsense all the time, ... so you waste time they could be using more effectively by posting nonsense so often.
I'm not saying you don't ever bring up good points, but so often it's just blindly biased hatred towards the PPA that you post. One week it was "the PPA will probably be raided by the US gov't" then the next week the PPA met with the DOJ about player funds. Numerous examples like that ...
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Relax, take a deep breath, then read for substance:
1. Someone posted to the effect that if 1,000,000+ members pitched in $50 each ,that would not amount to a meaningful bankroll for politics. That was way off-base, as $50,000,000 or $20,000,000 even would be a HUGE lobbying bankroll.
2. An organization which speaks collectively for a membership base REALLY needs to be member-funded. Doesn't matter who they are, the NRA, the AARP, trade associations, or labor unions. If someone ELSE pays the bills, that skews the message accordingly. You can argue all you want to about whether the PPA has done "good" or "awesomw", the fact is that their former funding dried up, has tainted them to some degree, and will not support them going forward.
3. Step up and donate $50 to the PPA, so they can continue what you support.
4. The PPA should hire professional fundraisers to mine the membership to raise funds needed to go forward.
NOW, Sonny, what part of any of that is "blind hate" or "nonsense" or ignorance ?
You also may be confusing me with someone else. I never posted anything about the PPA going to be raided, EVER. I never even thought they should give back ANY money, even that from FTP-related sources. .... As a matter of fact, I've grown weary of their apparent fear of acknwledging that PStars still belongs to the IGC, upon which the PPA depends for funding. There is nothing "wrong"with being supported by PStars, it just is a political tradeoff, as TE recently put it:
"No one said there are no issues in perception. I clearly said here it's a trade-off. … I have not seen any evidence that poker players are willing to fully fund any effort."
Focus on showing TE evidence that poker players WILL fund an effort to represent their interests.
I did urge the PPA all along to be MUCH more proactive with the DOJ to secure benefits for members hurt at FTP. for whatever reason, I was vilified for that suggestion. Fortunately, the PPA has since taken uop communication with the DOJ on that subject, assigning it to its "legal team". Sorry, if you have a beef with them talking to DOJ about securing FTP players' funds, but I don't follow why that is "nonsense" to you.
Last edited by DonkeyQuixote; 12-14-2011 at 08:30 PM.