Online poker is being discussed on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across America. Let's keep demanding action on online poker licensing legislation:

1. Let's sign the pro-poker online petition HERE and then let's promote it via the new prefilled tweet HERE and by sharing the post HERE on our own Facebook walls.
2. Let's send members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee NEW tweets requesting addition of online poker licensing to the Cybersecurity Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
3. Let's send Sen. Reid, Sen. McConnell, Sen. Kyl, Rep. Boehner, and Rep. Cantor NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE and HERE.
4. Let's send a NEW prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE, and let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

Please reply in this thread with "signed', "tweeted", "done", etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 166 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!


If you wish to do more today, please consider posting pro-poker comments to some the Facebook walls of some the mainstream media HERE and some potentially anti-poker lawmakers HERE. We can't do them all at once, of course, but let's all try to hit three of these each day.


I answered a few questions from posters on the rationale and effectiveness of the online petition:

Didn't we do the Change.gov petition some time ago?

Change.org is a nonpartisan online petition site that is not affiliated with Change.gov.

What good will it do?

Change.org emails the petition recipients when we sign, helping increase overall effectiveness and ensure we are heard from:

Also, this one isn't to Obama. It's to Reid, McConnell, Kyl, Boehner, and Cantor.

Additionally, PPA lobbyists will be able to hand deliver the results.

Waste of time! I'm sorry PPA I support you guys but these things are a joke.

We are pretty fortunate to be in an era where others have made tools for us, like Twitter, Facebook, and 2+2, that we use every day in our fight back. Now we have Change.org -- another free tool where we can reach out our elected representatives beyond the standard constituent letter.

I had family, friends and anyone else I could sign the last 2 or 3 and nothing came of them.

I thank you for having them sign the petitions, but how can you say nothing has come of that effort? Five years ago, the House voted to ban online poker by a 3 to 1 margin (that was, fortunately, watered down in the Senate backrooms before becoming UIGEA). They are now looking at licensing it, knowing that if they don't, states will. Even Bachus isn't entertaining the idea of passing legislation to amend the Wire Act to include online poker.

It seems quite a lot has come from our efforts as a community.

Obama promised to respond to 2 of them (and did not).

We're simply not a traditional issue. We won't be treated the same as more mainstream issues, unfortunately. Again, the House voted 3-1 to ban us in 2006. There's a reason for that.

Ipoker will come back when those in power decide to let it. Be it state or fed level.

They won't just wake up and have an epiphany. It's not like they'll say, "you know....no one has asked for online poker legislation, but let's go ahead and license it." They'll decide to back us when they feel their constituents want it.

if the big money casino corp. can't get the people they pay to get elected to act on their behalf our petition with 500 signatures isn't going to mean squat.

Casinos are lobbying for this, as is PPA. We'll just have to keep pushing forward.

even if its highly unlikely they read the petition or not, it took me under a minute to do and another minute to share on my wall.

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Can anyone imagine the NRA saying "well, there's no use in writing to Congress....they'll do whatever they want on guns"? Neither side of the abortion debate has decided to stop being active on the assumption that Congress will just magically come around to their side on their own. Our opponents didn't stop asking Congress to ban online poker and online gaming in the run up to the 2006 legislation. I'm glad you see how obvious it is that we have to do our part to tell Congress what we want here.

signed/tweeted

Tweeted, posted, signed petition etc. I slacked off for a few days but I'm back. Let's keep up this fight until we win it.

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I posted the petition to the PPA FB wall: http://www.facebook.com/theppa/posts/307758242617861

Tweeted and Signed, lets get this bill attached!

Done 2/28

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Online poker is being discussed on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across America. Let's keep demanding action on online poker licensing legislation:

1. The online poker petition HERE has over 2500 signatures already! If you've not yet signed it, please do so. Let's all have our friends and family sign it too.
   
2. Let's promote the petition via the NEW prefilled tweet HERE and by sharing the post HERE on our own Facebook walls. We have 103 tweets and 92 shares of the FB wall post already, so let's keep that growing!
   
3. Let's send members of the House Committee on Homeland Security NEW tweets requesting inclusion of online poker licensing into the House version of the Cybersecurity Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. Let's also post to the committee's FB wall HERE.
4. Let's send Sen. Reid, Sen. McConnell, Sen. Kyl, Rep. Boehner, and Rep. Cantor NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
5. Let's ask President Obama for his response (a response he owes us) to the We the People poker question via the prefilled tweet HERE and on his Facebook walls HERE and HERE.
   
6. Let's send a NEW prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE, and let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

Please reply in this thread with "signed', "tweeted", "done", etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 167 actions have generated triple-digit participation, and the past 1 action generated four-figure participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!


If you wish to do more today, please consider posting pro-poker comments to some the Facebook walls of some the mainstream media HERE and some potentially anti-poker lawmakers HERE. We can't do them all at once, of course, but let's all try to hit three of these each day.

I haven't posted in this thread in a whole week! Eeeeeek. But I have done all of the action plans. I've posted my "done" in one or both of the other threads.

Done.

Happy Leap Day.

tue and wed tweeted

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Done 2/29

Bump.

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Tweeted - 02/29/2012