Let's continue our outreach to some less-than-supportive CA lawmakers this weekend, as they need to see that we really care and that we are motivated enough to make our voices heard. It takes just 30 seconds:

1. Send a prefilled, editable pro-poker Twitter message to anti-poker Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) HERE and Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) HERE (Sen. Feinstein is not on Twitter).
   
2. Wait at least an hour, then send these Twitter messages to Sen. Boxer HERE and Rep. McClintock HERE (if you can't wait an hour, it's better to send all of these at once than not at all).
   
3. Wait at least one more hour, then send these Twitter messages to Sen. Boxer HERE and Rep. McClintock HERE.
4. Let's continue to make and like pro-poker posts on anti-poker Sen. Feinstein's (D-CA) Facebook wall HERE, Sen. Boxer's wall HERE, and Rep. McClintock's wall HERE, with focus on the pro-poker posts HERE, HERE, and HERE. There are many new pro-poker comments since your last visit, so let's get 'em all liked!
   
5. Send a prefilled tweet promoting the weekend action plan HERE.

Please reply in this thread with "posted", "done", etc. to encourage others to participate. The past 47 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

If you wish to do more this weekend, let's continue to reach out to the deficit super committee and others.

House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Prefilled Tweet Facebook
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA): Prefilled Tweet Facebook
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: Prefilled Tweet Facebook

Deficit super committee: Republicans

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

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

Deficit super committee: Democrats

Representatives:
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
Xavier Becerra: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact
Chris Van Hollen: Facebook Contact

Senators:
Co-Chair -- Patty Murray: Facebook Facebook post on which we can comment Contact
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


TruFloridaGator and many others are supporting the effort by giving away coaching and other items to active participants. Please see Fight for Poker Rights/Free MTT/SNG/Cash Coaching/Site Sub Giveaway! Not too late to join! for more.

did some fb and twitter

Done

"EASY! 1000s of jobs, billions in revenue for debt, restore freedom, protect consumers. All w/1 bill. #poker H.R.2366"

OOps. you said to post it in the other thread. My bad. Not awake yet.

I tweeted this to Harry Reid since he seems to control all of the puppet strings.

@SenatorReid Please either introduce your own online #poker legislation for us to get behind, or support H.R.2366 or H.R.1174!

I feel the need to push.

All right, done.

Round 6

done with both.

Why do we only get a few "done's?" I think we should change the thread title to convey how fast and easy this is, they probably think this requires writing letters and don't even bother opening the thread. Maybe something like:

"Poker Rights: Send prefilled tweets to anti-poker CA lawmakers"

If we're changing the title, we should also change the prefix "Fight for Poker Rights." My guess many players are just trained to not read past that for the reasons mentioned above.

In addition to the dones, there are some like me who also sends out e-mails, make calls, visits the local campaign HQ. There are also a very important few like Last Life and TE who do far more than that and encourages all of us.
With that said, I think your title suggestion is brilliant!

Appreciate all the hard work from the people who run this thread, but I truly think we can do much better than just triple digit participation.

This is the biggest poker forum in the world and the millions of American (ex)poker players can't get more participation to encourage our congressman to change the way America works?

I used to work in Washington DC and had many many friends who worked on the hill. I was curious if these politicians actually read and consider the spam that they get and basically all my friends assured me that they at least listen to what we have to say.

We gotta somehow get people to gogogogo on this stuff!!

That's up to the poker community. You can help with participation by joining in encouraging others to participate as well.

We can view the poker tweets to Sen. Boxer at http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtim...xer%3A%20poker.

forget california... it's a lost cause.

Done.

How so? The state is actively debating doing this at the state level.

This is a great target for us IMO.

done!

done it baby

done

done. Thanks again TE for fighting for us.

Round 7

Cliffs:

1. Submit pro-poker CNN presidential debate questions now via Twitter HERE and HERE. If you can, it's best to edit these a bit to give them some individuality.
2. Either go HERE to schedule tweets for around 8 pm ET on 10/18 or tweet them again yourself around 8 pm ET on 10/18.
   
3. Like the pro-poker Facebook debate questions HERE and HERE, then like and post pro-poker questions/comments there and on the main wall HERE. Start with something like, "To all the candidates: What is your position on the licensing, regulation and taxation of online poker?" To find all the poker questions, hit CTRL-F and search for "poker". Use "highlight all" to spot the poker posts.
4. Submit pro-poker questions directly to CNN HERE. Again, try something like, "To all the candidates: What is your position on the licensing, regulation and taxation of online poker?"
   
5. Send a prefilled tweet promoting the action plan HERE.

Details:

CNN is airing the Oct. 18th presidential debate air live from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET from the Venetian in Las Vegas. CNN is seeking questions for candidates via the CNN Politics fan page on Facebook, Twitter (using the #CNNDebate hashtag), and their website. So, let's submit some pro-poker questions. As this debate is in Las Vegas, we will be topical.

The site states that the questions and comments are "submitted in real-time," so let's submit them now and then resubmit them right as the debate starts. We can either use www.twuffer.com to schedule tweets in advance or we can submit them ourselves as the debate starts.

Please reply in this thread with "posted", "done", etc. to encourage others to participate. The past 48 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

If you wish to do more today, let's continue to reach out to our elected representatives. LastLife and Sajeffe put together some nice prefilled, editable tweets that we should all send out:

John Boehner: Prefilled Tweet Republican Speaker of House
Joe Biden: Prefilled Tweet Democratic President of the Senate
Harry Reid: Prefilled Tweet Democratic Senate Majority Leader
Eric Cantor: Prefilled Tweet Republican House Majority Leader
Nancy Pelosi: Prefilled Tweet Democratic House Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell: Prefilled Tweet Republican Senate Minority Leader
Daniel Inouye: Prefilled Tweet Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore
Kevin McCarthy: Prefilled Tweet Republican House Majority WHIP
Richard Durbin: Prefilled Tweet Democratic Senate Majority WHIP
Jon Kyl: Prefilled Tweet Republican Senate Minority WHIP
Steny Hoyer: Prefilled Tweet Democratic House Minority WHIP
Tom Price: Prefilled Tweet Republican Policy Committee Chairman
John Larson: Prefilled Tweet Democratic Caucus Chairman
Jeb Hensarling: Prefilled Tweet Republican Conference Chairman
James Clyburn: Prefilled Tweet Democratic Assistant Leader
Dave Camp: Prefilled Tweet
Fred Upton: Prefilled Tweet
Rob Portman: Prefilled Tweet
Patrick Toomey: Prefilled Tweet
Xavier Becerra: Prefilled Tweet
Chris Van Hollen: Prefilled Tweet
Patty Murray: Prefilled Tweet (acct. #1) Prefilled Tweet (acct. #2)
John Kerry: Prefilled Tweet

TruFloridaGator and many others are supporting the effort by giving away coaching and other items to active participants. Please see Fight for Poker Rights/Free MTT/SNG/Cash Coaching/Site Sub Giveaway! Not too late to join! for more.

All right, done.

done and done!

thanks for all the work you're putting into this

Done!