Let's resume contacting mainstream media to ask them to increase coverage of our issue. Let's contact CBS News today. As they have been critical in the past, especially on 60 Minutes last Sunday (again), let's mention specifically that they need to support our right to play.

Contact info:

• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CBSNews?sk=wall&filter=12
• Main contact form: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedba...ews_form.shtml
  • All you have to do is fill it out once. After that, simply hit the back button, change the recipient, send, and repeat.
• CBS Evening News
  • Email: evening@cbsnews.com
  • Email, Saturday/Sunday Edition: weekend@cbsnews.com
  • Phone: (212) 975-3247
• 60 Minutes
  • EMAIL: 60m@cbsnews.com
  • PHONE: (212) 975-3247

Thanks!

It was a rerun that discussed slot machine addiction.

There is a post on the 60 Minutes Facebook wall to which we ought to post our thoughts: http://www.facebook.com/60minutes/posts/130738363684149

Let's resume contacting mainstream media to ask them to increase coverage of our issue. Let's contact CBS News today. As they have been critical in the past, especially on 60 Minutes last Sunday (again), let's mention specifically that they need to support our right to play:

• Facebook:
  • CBS News: http://www.facebook.com/CBSNews?sk=wall&filter=12
  • 60 Minutes: http://www.facebook.com/60minutes?sk=wall&filter=2
  • 60 Minutes discussion on slot machines and potential addiction: http://www.facebook.com/60minutes/posts/130738363684149
• Main contact form: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedba...ews_form.shtml
  • All you have to do is fill it out once. After that, simply hit the back button, change the recipient, send, and repeat.
• CBS Evening News
  • Email: evening@cbsnews.com
  • Email, Saturday/Sunday Edition: weekend@cbsnews.com
  • Phone: (212) 975-3247
• 60 Minutes
  • EMAIL: 60m@cbsnews.com
  • PHONE: (212) 975-3247

Thanks!

Let's all tell 60 Minutes that they need to support our right to play: http://www.facebook.com/60minutes/posts/130738363684149

Let's continue contacting CBS News today, focusing on the 60 Minutes Facebook post in red below. As CBS News has been critical in the past, especially on 60 Minutes last Sunday (again), let's mention specifically that they need to support our right to play:

• Facebook:
  • CBS News: http://www.facebook.com/CBSNews?sk=wall&filter=12
  • 60 Minutes: http://www.facebook.com/60minutes?sk=wall&filter=2
  • 60 Minutes discussion on slot machines and potential addiction: http://www.facebook.com/60minutes/posts/130738363684149
• Main contact form: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedba...ews_form.shtml
  • All you have to do is fill it out once. After that, simply hit the back button, change the recipient, send, and repeat.
• CBS Evening News
  • Email: evening@cbsnews.com
  • Email, Saturday/Sunday Edition: weekend@cbsnews.com
  • Phone: (212) 975-3247
• 60 Minutes
  • EMAIL: 60m@cbsnews.com
  • PHONE: (212) 975-3247

Thanks!

Done and bump.

From the Grand Rapids Press, at http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapi...nce_in_le.html:

The PPA member update was sent out today. It included this action plan, so let's keep on the 60 Minutes stuff for today as well.

Getting this issue out in the mainstream press is an important component to building momentum. We've done a lot here with the Facebook actions. Let's continue this by sending letters to the editors of our local papers to praise H.R. 2366, the Online Poker Act, and to encourage lawmakers to support it. Many poker players took this action in the wake of Black Friday and dozens of letters were published! Let’s keep the good work up and send our letters to the editor today.

Also, if you see an online news story about Internet poker, please take a moment to post comment on it (if the story allows for public comments online). The more comments/interest a story receives; the more likely that news outlet will commit more time covering the issue. This is one more easy way for us to get more attention for our fight for our rights.

To find local media contact information, please click here.

WOW! To whoever took the time to put that list together.

This week is the official start of the August recess for the U.S House of Representatives. Congress is heading home for the month.

While our reps are back home for the recess, let's all call their district office (click here to find the number) and urge them to support HR 2366, the Online Poker Act of 2011.

You can also urge your Representative to support the bill by clicking here to see if your Representative has a Facebook page. If they do, please take a moment to sign into your Facebook account, click the “Like” button on their page and then post your message asking them to protect your rights to play online poker by supporting HR 2366. You can also check to see if your Representative has a Twitter account by clicking here. If they do, please use the hashtag #poker when sending your tweet.

http://www.facebook.com/congress
http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Mem...ss_who_Twitter

Let's contact Fox News to tell them to increase their coverage of our important issue. Some of FoxNews' Facebook pages do not allow posting, but we can post comments to existing posts.

Facebook:

• John Stossel: http://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel?sk=wall&filter=12 (remember to thank him for his outstanding support for us).
• Shepard Smith: http://www.facebook.com/ShepardSmith
• Fox News Sunday: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fox-Ne...ay/10674237167
• Fox News: www.facebook.com/FoxNews?v=app_2373072738
  • Here's a post to which we can post comments: www.facebook.com/FoxNews/posts/242990752398579
• Your World with Neil Cavuto: https://www.facebook.com/YourWorldCavuto
  • Here's a post to which we can post comments: https://www.facebook.com/YourWorldCa...02073249851558

Contact info:

• Main contact email: yourcomments@foxnews.com
• Email addresses for individual news programs: www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html

Thanks!

As you may know, U.S. House and Senate leaders have appointed twelve members of Congress to serve on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. This “super committee" is charged with developing policies to reduce the U.S. deficit and then make specific recommendations to Congress which will be voted on. This is a great opportunity for us to make our voices heard.

Let's go to their Facebook pages and let them know that we want them to take action on the online poker issue! Simply take a moment to sign into your Facebook account, click the “Like” button on the page and then post your message asking them to protect our right to play online poker by supporting HR 2366!

The names with an “x” in front of them are those who do not allow direct posting on their Facebook wall. No problem for us. Just post a comment in response to a post already on the page. PLEASE BE SENSITIVE about this though. If the post says the Congressperson is being treated for cancer, don’t bother them with poker. Tell them to get well soon. Be sensitive to what’s going on in their state, too – wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, etc. And PLEASE say please and thank you. Courtesy goes a long way.

Oh, and let’s all try to get the bill number correct. It’s H.R. 2366.

Let's all also remember to revisit these walls to like the posts and comments made since your last visit. Thanks!

Here's the Super Committee:

Republicans

Representatives:
Dave Camp: Facebook Contact
x Jeb Hensarling: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact
Fred Upton: Facebook Contact

Senators:
x Rob Portman: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact (site set to censor the word "poker")
x Jon Kyl: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact
Patrick Toomey: Facebook Contact

Democrats

Representatives:

x James Clyburn: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact (site set to censor the word "poker")
x Xavier Becerra: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact
x Chris Van Hollen: Facebook Contact (no recent posts for us to use to post comments)

Senators:
x Patty Murray: Facebook Contact (no recent posts for us to use to post comments)
x Max Baucus: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact (it's not Rep. Spencer Bachus, so please don't blast him! ) (site set to censor the word "poker")
John Kerry: Facebook Facebook Contact

I posted the following to many of these walls:

and we bump

This is a great time to get air time for poker. Today's action plan is very important.

bump

As Rep. Van Hollen does not use his Facebook page or permit direct posting, it's of no use to us. So, I substituted the one LastLife found for that:

Chris Van Hollen: Facebook Contact

Update on Sen. Murphy:

PokerNews has a good article by Matt Kredell on this issue: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2011/0...bill-10842.htm

+1

Done. (And, I'm back. )

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Tweeted to 90+ people, hopefully they will retweet the action plan.

Updated with twitter accounts. Twitter is even easier than FB.

Republicans

Representatives:
Dave Camp: Facebook Facebook Twitter Contact
Jeb Hensarling: Facebook Facebook Twitter Contact
Fred Upton: Facebook Facebook Twitter Contact

Senators:
Rob Portman: Facebook Twitter Contact (FB censor "poker")
Jon Kyl: Facebook Contact
Patrick Toomey: Facebook Facebook Twitter Contact

Democrats

Representatives:
James Clyburn: Facebook Facebook Twitter Contact (FB censor "poker")
Xavier Becerra: Facebook Twitter Contact
Chris Van Hollen: Facebook Facebook Twitter Contact

Senators:
Patty Murray: Facebook Twitter Contact
Max Baucus: Facebook Contact (FB censor "poker")
John Kerry: Facebook Facebook Twitter Contact

As you may know, U.S. House and Senate leaders have appointed twelve members of Congress to serve on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. This debt "super committee" is charged with developing policies to reduce the U.S. deficit and then make specific recommendations to Congress which will be voted on. This is a great opportunity for us to make our voices heard.


Simply take a moment to sign into your Facebook account, click the “Like” button on the page and then post your message asking him to protect our right to play online poker by supporting HR 2366! Here's the Facebook post on which we should comment. Please "like" the other pro-poker posts there as well.

So far, the pro-poker post with the most "likes" has 32 "likes". Let's bump this to 100+. So, we need 68 more people who care about their rights to volunteer to take this simple action.


As you may know, U.S. House and Senate leaders have appointed twelve members of Congress to serve on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. This “super committee" is charged with developing policies to reduce the U.S. deficit and then make specific recommendations to Congress which will be voted on. This is a great opportunity for us to make our voices heard.

Let's go to their Facebook pages and let them know that we want them to take action on the online poker issue! Simply take a moment to sign into your Facebook account, click the “Like” button on the page and then post your message asking them to protect our right to play online poker by supporting HR 2366!

The names with an “x” in front of them are those who do not allow direct posting on their Facebook wall. No problem for us. Just post a comment in response to a post already on the page. PLEASE BE SENSITIVE about this though. If the post says the Congressperson is being treated for cancer, don’t bother them with poker. Tell them to get well soon. Be sensitive to what’s going on in their state, too – wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, etc. And PLEASE say please and thank you. Courtesy goes a long way.

Oh, and let’s all try to get the bill number correct. It’s H.R. 2366.

Let's all also remember to revisit these walls to like the pro-poker posts and comments made since your last visit. Thanks!

Here's the Super Committee:


Republicans

Dave Camp: Facebook Facebook Contact
x Jeb Hensarling: Facebook Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact
Fred Upton: Facebook Facebook Contact

Senators:
x Rob Portman: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact (site set to censor the word "poker")
x Jon Kyl: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact
Patrick Toomey: Facebook Facebook (second site actively deletes pro-poker posts) Contact

Democrats

Representatives:
x James Clyburn: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment (first site set to censor the word "poker") Facebook (second site permits direct posting) Contact
x Xavier Becerra: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact
Chris Van Hollen: Facebook Contact

Senators:
x Patty Murray: Facebook Twitter Facebook post on which we can comment Contact (the post for us to use to post comments is a few weeks old, so I included her Twitter link)
x Max Baucus: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact (it's not Rep. Spencer Bachus, so please don't blast him! ) (site set to censor the word "poker")
John Kerry: Facebook Facebook Contact