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I just sent this tweet to the members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee: Licensing & regulating Internet #poker will be good for tribes, per testimony from multiple sources at today's hearing.

Done!

Yesterday's Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing was a terrific success! PPA Board Member Patrick "Skallagrim" Fleming did an outstanding job representing poker players there. Let's all continue to tell the committee that we want them to support our right to play:

1. Let's send the Senate Indian Affairs Committee members these NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
2. Let's go to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee members' Facebook walls and like all the pro-poker comments -- and post some new ones: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
3. Let's send a NEW prefilled tweet promoting the daily action plan: HERE

Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others to participate. The past 150 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!


Conference Committee Members:

Republicans:

• Sen. Jon Kyl [Facebook] [Contact]
• Sen. Mike Crapo [Facebook] [Post for commenting] (part of the 2/5 action plan)
• Sen. John Barrasso [Facebook] (part of the 2/7 action plan)
• Rep. Dave Camp: [Facebook] [Facebook] (part of the 2/7 action plan)
• Rep. Fred Upton [Facebook] [Facebook] (part of the 2/11 action plan)
• Rep. Kevin Brady [Facebook] [Post for commenting] (part of the 2/5 action plan)
• Rep. Greg Walden [Facebook] [Post for commenting] (part of the 2/5 action plan)
• Rep. Tom Price [Facebook] [Post for commenting] (part of the 2/6 action plan)
• Rep. Thomas Reed [Facebook] (part of the 2/11 action plan)
• Rep. Renee Ellmers [Facebook] (part of the 2/12 action plan)
• Rep. Nan Hayworth [Facebook] (part of the 2/12 action plan)

Democrats:

• Sen. Max Baucus [Facebook] [Post for commenting] (part of the 2/4 action plan)
• Sen. Ben Cardin [Facebook] (part of the 2/12 action plan)
• Sen. Jack Reed [No Facebook]
• Sen. Bob Casey [Facebook] Facebook] [Post for commenting] (part of the 2/5 action plan)
• Rep. Sander Levin [Facebook] (part of the 2/13 action plan)
• Rep. Xavier Becerra [Facebook] [Post for commenting] (part of the 2/6 action plan)
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen [Facebook] (part of the 2/12 action plan)
• Rep. Henry Waxman [Facebook] [Post for commenting] (part of the 2/6 action plan)

Done 2/9

I just check the tweet stats. Participation is already way up for today. Let's gogogogo!

If the volume of tweets is truly important then I concede that the current system is fine. However, here's an example of a modified tweet I'm sending out today that combines three tweets into one:

@IndianCommittee @SenatorAkaka @alfranken: Fed licensing of online #poker will be good for tribes per 2/9 hearing. Please back! #HR2366

Basically, when there are a bunch of twitter accounts we're trying to @, we could combine them by mentioning multiple accounts in a single tweet. It could take less time to do this way and won't fill timelines with a dozen copies of the same tweet.

Your thoughts? Thanks for all your work for this cause.

PS: Done

Done!

****, thought I was doing fridays, but I did Thursdays again.

tweeted!

Thanks for thinking about ways to optimize the effort.

A new engineer with whom I used to work was looking for a mentor. He emailed twelve high-level managers in one email. None helped him. He needed to ask them individually if he wanted their help and support.

Combining tweets -- especially combining lawmakers from different states into one tweet -- wouldn't succeed for exactly the same reason IMO.

If you worry about your timeline, I recommend creating a separate account devoted solely to this activity.

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. Rumors are flying about this on all the poker forums, so let's do our part to stand up for this!

1. Let's send the Conference Committee members + Sen. Reid & Sen. McConnell NEW 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. Fred Upton and Rep. Tom Reed: HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others to participate. The past 151 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!


If you wish to do more today, let's reach out to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee membership via Facebook with respectful requests for them to support poker at the 2/9 hearing. Simply like the pro-poker posts and make a supportive post of your own. When commenting on preexisting lawmaker posts, please be sure the post is appropriate for pro-poker comments.

• United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs: Facebook
• Daniel Akaka, HI (Chair): Facebook
• John Barrasso, WY (Vice Chair): Facebook
• Daniel Inouye, HI: Facebook
• Maria Cantwell: Facebook
• John Hoeven, ND: Facebook
• Lisa Murkowski, AK: Facebook
• Tom Udall, NM: Facebook
• Michael Crapo, ID: Facebook
• Mike Johanns, NE: Facebook
• Jon Tester, MT: Facebook Facebook
• Al Franken, MN: Facebook
• Kent Conrad, ND: Facebook
• Tim Johnson, SD: Facebook
• John McCain, AZ: Facebook

Done 2/10

I feel your pain. I've done that on more than one occasion. Haha.

Done, Saturday. Did it all. Also sent a tweet to a bunch of pros/celebs to try to get them to help out a little.

Yeah, I agree with this. When I tried getting pros/celebs to help promote our efforts many months ago, I combined with two or three names to a tweet. But after I gave it some thought, I realized that since I'm asking for something, I probably should address each person individually. And then I got some positive responses.

I just updated the tweets for today. If you've already sent the the earlier ones, feel free to go back and send the new ones, too!

In

Done.

I'm done with Friday now.

and saturday

I've thought about creating another account specifically for tweeting to lawmakers about online poker, but I was afraid it would look like spam since it's from a new account that only tweets poker stuff. I mean, what's to stop someone from creating dozens of accounts to all send out poker tweets to lawmakers?

Even when you're asking them verbatim the same thing?

Just be sure to have an avatar and a name and it will be fine.

Yep. If I received a tweet for help with something that was addressed to a bunch of other people, I'd pretty much disregard it.

Done 2/11

Alright, you've convinced me. I'll mass tweet on a separate account and probably tweet selectively from my main account. Thanks again.

That's great....thanks!