Wednesday Action Plan: Tell the DoJ, CA Gov. Brown & ME Gov. LePage to back poker players!

[Leader]

I'm there, but perhaps add a section for this daily stuff on the PPA website (under "Take Action" just have "Daily Tasks" or w/e). Rich might also want to send a daily message out to your twitter followers.

[TheEngineer]

Fight for Poker Rights: Monday, May 23rd:

• The Fly-In is Tuesday the 24th. In support, let's all call our Congressmen today and tell them to support the game of poker.
• Let's all tweet this notice: Stand up for #poker rights! Visit http://is****/MbrPbd on 2+2 and follow each day's actions in defense of our game. THX!
• Let's continue to own some Facebook pages (senators, Congressmen, Congressional committees, etc.):
  • The House Financial Services Committee's Facebook page is here.
  • Let's get some posts on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce page (here)
  • Senators' FB pages: Senator Facebook Listing
  • For all of these, let's:
    • Post the fact that you have a meetings scheduled with your Congressman (no need to post his/her name if you prefer not to).
    • Mention that you are proud to live in a country where we the right to petition government for redress of grievances is protected by the First Amendment.
    • Lots of posts on the issue of poker and lots of "liking" of pro-poker comments will help this effort as well.

• Tomorrow's action: Visit your Congressman in DC or at his/her home office.

Thanks!

[KingKongGrinder]

TE,

Should we also give http://www.facebook.com/DOJ some love too? We should keep pounding the DOJ as well.

[DrewOnTilt]

Originally Posted by KingKongGrinder

TE,

Should we also give http://www.facebook.com/DOJ some love too? We should keep pounding the DOJ as well.

Yes. It is looking sparse on the poker comments as of late.

[Thew92]

Please go here and thank Mr. Barton for attending the rally tomorrow.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/RepJoeBar...=share_comment

[schlucky1]

Hopefully this Andrew Lasswell character doesn't chime in any more on our support for Rep. Barton. I say don't encourage him. What a douche bag.

[thewhackness]

Here's Bartons facebook page. Make sure to thank him for attending tomorrow.
http://www.facebook.com/RepJoeBarton?sk=wall

[newschool2]

Originally Posted by thewhackness

Here's Bartons facebook page. Make sure to thank him for attending tomorrow.
http://www.facebook.com/RepJoeBarton?sk=wall

done

[Leader]

Originally Posted by oldschool

done

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[TheEngineer]

Fight for Poker Rights: Tuesday, May 24th:

• The Fly-In is today. Let's all visit our Congressmen either in DC or at their home offices. If you don't have an appointment, stop by and see if someone will meet with you.
• Let's all tweet this notice: Stand up for #poker rights! Visit http://is****/MbrPbd on 2+2 and follow each day's actions in defense of our game. THX!
• Let's continue to own some Facebook pages (senators, Congressmen, Congressional committees, etc.):
  • The House Financial Services Committee's Facebook page is here.
  • Let's get some posts on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce page (here)
  • The Dept. of Justice's page is here.
  • Senators' FB pages: Senator Facebook Listing
  • For all of these, let's:
    • Post the fact that you have a meetings scheduled with your Congressman (no need to post his/her name if you prefer not to).
    • Mention that you are proud to live in a country where we the right to petition government for redress of grievances is protected by the First Amendment.
    • Lots of posts on the issue of poker and lots of "liking" of pro-poker comments will help this effort as well.

• Tomorrow's action: Write follow-up notes to your Congressman and staffers from actions coming from meetings (even if just a thank you note).

Thanks!

[thedinergetsby]

Will be very curious how many meetings you guys were able to set up with hill staff. As someone who does that for a living, I know how hard it can be. Will you be releasing the amount of people you guys/poker players met with today? Hope it's all going well.

[I pull flags]

Rooting for the fly in to do some good.

[Icy-]

any videos/news on what happened today?

[ChicagoRy]

Originally Posted by Icy-

any videos/news on what happened today?

I think this is some press on it: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-va...ine-poker-bill

[DrewOnTilt]

Here's some decent USA Today coverage:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/poker...stration_N.htm