Thanks for the compliment on the effort and on your participation in this action. It's much appreciated.

P.S. Glad we owned that MN situation!

Done! And my posting priviledges are back at facebook!

Very nice!

The Twitter message is new for today, so please tweet that one even if you sent one yesterday. Thanks!

Just realized that I haven't been posting "done" whenever I do this stuff. Sorry about that. So yeah...

Done!

So in the Twitter messages I always see #poker, is that just for searching purposes? I don't really understand Twitter, that being said for the first time I sent a tweet to everyone on the super committee.

Yes. The # is a hashtag that is used for search purposes.

Thanks for sending the tweets!

done! & done!

Done..I feel like I should sign up for twitter too, but have yet to do so

done. been doing it everyday. takes like 2minutes and can't hurt our chances. Thanks for all your hard work!

done

Done. Numerous comments liked :-).

Done.

Thanks!

I encourage you to sign up. It's pretty quick to get signed up. We'll be doing more on Twitter over the next few weeks (and beyond), so it's worth doing.

Thanks everyone. We're well in the triple-digits in participation for this action -- eight in a row! I hope this helps more here decide to join in and participate.

Do we tweet twice for Aug 26 action? It seems like the exact same message, so why are there two links to tweet?

She has two Twitter accounts. Let's send tweets to both.

Done

Will you take a few moments to stand up for poker? These items take just ten seconds each. Thank you for participating!

Let's focus on deficit super committee member Sen. Rob Portman:

1. Submit a pro-poker comment to Sen. Portman's new Reduce the Deficit site HERE.
   • Either cut-and-paste, "Please ask the deficit super committee to support HR 2366, Rep. Barton's (R-TX) Online Poker Act. This bill raises $$$ without raising taxes. Thank you." or write your own.
2. Send a prefilled, editable pro-poker Twitter message HERE
3. "Like" the main FB page HERE
   
   • You can unlike the page when you're done if you'd like
     
4. Post a pro-poker comment under the post HERE and like the other poker comments
   
   • Either cut-and-paste, "Please ask the deficit super committee to support HR 2366, Rep. Barton's (R-TX) Online Poker Act. This bill raises $$$ without raising taxes. Thank you." or write your own.
5. Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others to participate as well.

Thanks!

Here's the comment I posted:


As a voter and a resident of greater Cincinnati, I am writing to ask you to support legislation that licenses Internet poker in the U.S. This bill raises revenue without raising taxes.

In response to the demands of millions of Americans for licensed online poker, Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of his House colleagues introduced H.R. 2366, the Online Poker Act of 2011. This bill does not authorize video poker or any other house-banked casino-style game. Rather, it provides for sensible regulation of the game of online poker -- the electronic version of the game families across America play at the kitchen table -- and is limited to this person-to-person game of skill.

I ask that you please bring this bill to the attention of the deficit reduction super committee. This legislation will provide much needed federal and state revenue without raising taxes. It will also bring American companies into the Internet poker market, bringing needed jobs to Ohio with them. It will provide strong consumer protections and age verification requirements as well. U.S.-based horse race wagering sites have proven that online betting sites can successfully implement these important protections. The game of poker deserves no less.

Former Homeland Security Advisor Tom Ridge supports federal licensing of online poker because it addresses control and accountability of cash flows. Additionally, WiredSafety, the world's largest Internet safety group, commissioned an in-depth study of this issue. The study, which was conducted by Harvard University, examined issues like blocking of underage participation, prevention of money laundering, and providing of consumer protections against fraud and abuse. The study concluded that "combining a thoughtful regulatory scheme with education, technology tools, and support appears to be the most effective means of handling the realities and risks" of online poker. This groundbreaking study can be found at www.theppa.org/harvardstudy.

Many conservatives oppose efforts to prohibit online poker, including Grover Norquist, George Will, Rep. Joe Barton, Rep. Ron Paul, Rep. John Campbell, Rep. Peter King, and many others. In fact, I interviewed Mr. Norquist on this topic. That interview is on Townhall.com at http://poker.blogtownhall.com/2010/0...ne_poker.thtml.

Every federal dollar wasted on efforts to stop American adults from playing online poker is another dollar added to the federal deficit. Licensing and regulating U.S.-based poker will work better than prohibition. Quite frankly, there's simply no reason not to pass HR 2366 into law.

Please support my freedoms by supporting this bill. Thank you for your consideration.

Check the poker tweets others sent to Sen. Portman: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%40robportman%20poker

Never catches them all. Haven't seen one of mine.

Liked a bunch of Facebook posts on Portman's wall and submitted an idea to his website.