Not a PPA spokesman.
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Originally Posted by FTPJesus
Fact: PPA got a large majority of their 'funding' from the offshore sites like FTP and PS..
Players only donated about 50k to the PPA last year. That would only be enough to hire 1 low tier lobbyist. Where else would they have got their funding? Casinos only recently started fighting for legislation. Yahoo, Facebook, and many others that stand to make a lot of money didn't contribute, as a mater of fact they opposed us. FoF also scared a lot of people away.
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Fact: While They claim to be for the poker players but in reality their actions speak more to being shills to their backers (the sites_ with no accountablity against the offshore sites.
PPA supported Reid 1/2 that banned these sites for a minimum of 3 years. That in itself disproves this.
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Fact: The truth is the PPA only recently decided to try and focus on the players in this country post Black Friday because they lost their cash cow in the sites. .
Before black friday, helping the sites meant helping the player, even though the PPA never focused on offshore operators as you claim. The sites offered what the player wanted. The PPA lobbied to allow players to play, and since the only people not opposing us were the sites, obviously the players and the poker sites interests we aligned. PPA supported Reid 1/2 and would snap call a interstate bill that bans PS/FTP forever both now and in the past.
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Most PPA members arent paid members and now the PPA needs players funds to support their activites.
PPA needs way more then what players have given. The PPA wouldn't exist if it only operated on player donations.
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but you dont see the PPA coming out and hammering the sites for not paying (cant bite the hand that fed them in the past). .
PPA publicly called the poker sites to return funds. What would you like a small US, consisting of mainly volunteers, lobbying firm to do about companies that do business in Antigua? An agreement was reached, everything is on the poker sites to return funds.
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Fact: Reality is the PPA is nothing but an impotent organization which after years has proven to be ineffective for poker players and being the voice of poker players. The should change their name to the OPPA since they only seem to be focused with online poker players and even that is questionable.
The PPA is a very small lobbying organization. It would be impossible them them to push anything through without help from an organization like the AGA. Even with all of the positive support from these gambling groups, loss of other companies lobbying against us like the NFL, and the public outburst over this issue that resulted in nearly 100k emails(thanks to the PPA), this is still an uphill battle.
Last edited by LastLife; 05-29-2011 at 03:39 PM.