I feel so dirty now.

The Facebook posts are really gaining traction. I hope we'll all visit the relevant pages and make ourselves heard:

• The House Financial Services Committee's Facebook page is here.
• Let's get some posts on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce page (here)
• The Dept. of Justice's page is here.
• Senators' FB pages: Senator Facebook Listing
• We need lots of posts on the issue of poker and lots of "liking" of pro-poker comments.

Fact: PPA got a large majority of their 'funding' from the offshore sites like FTP and PS.

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

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. Most PPA members arent paid members and now the PPA needs players funds to support their activites 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).

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.

Nice to see this thread in NVG. Of course there will be more useless arguing here, but I expect it to be positive overall.

The facebook stuff has been going great. Now that there is a thread here, I would love to see a couple of hundred "likes" for pro-poker posts. Take a few minutes to do this stuff, then a few more minutes to tell all your friends.

Not a PPA spokesman.

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.

PPA supported Reid 1/2 that banned these sites for a minimum of 3 years. That in itself disproves this.

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.

PPA needs way more then what players have given. The PPA wouldn't exist if it only operated on player donations.

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.

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.

I'm glad to see something get organized. I'm happy to spend a few moments clicking some buttons and splashing myself all over that facebook wall (finally found a use for that thing). The Financial Committee's page is all poker comments. Great to see. While this kind of thing may not show immediately results, 2+2 gives us a ready-made community that can be mobilized quickly to make a lot of noise. Lets do more of this!

Links? Proof of any kind?


If not then stfu.

+1

Proof that it's good idea to spread this across all the subforums, and not just the legislation forum. I wish more people read the legislation forum. This has been going for a while now. Welcome to the fight! If everyone on 2+2 got their hands dirty we would be a lot more influential.

I just posted this:

I hope we'll all post on these Facebook walls to let our lawmakers know where we stand. If you like the post I made, please "like" it at http://www.facebook.com/energyandcom...50261688056311. Thanks!

Tomorrow's action plan will be to start contacting mainstream media to ask them to cover this issue in more depth.

Nice. It would be awesome to get some big time news stories on this.

do this guys! literally takes like 30 secs

We are slowly but surely moving in that direction.

I just re-sent all of the letters and will be making more phone calls tomorrow.

Clicking the Like button on Bacchus's page so I could make comments made me feel very dirty.

This thread warms my heart, go forward my American cuzzies!!

Fight for Poker Rights: Tuesday, May 31st:

Let's start contacting mainstream media companies to tell them to increase their coverage of our important issue. Let's start with Fox News and go from there. Contact info:

• Main contact email: yourcomments@foxnews.com
• Email addresses for individual news programs: www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html
• Fox News Sunday FB page: www.facebook.com/pages/Fox-News-Sunday/10674237167
• Fox News FB discussion page: www.facebook.com/FoxNews?v=app_2373072738

Recurring actions we can take:

• Let's continue to own a lot of Facebook pages (senators, Congressmen, Congressional committees, etc.):
  • The House Financial Services Committee's Facebook page is here.
  • Let's get some posts on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce page (here)
  • The Dept. of Justice's page is here.
  • Senators' FB pages: Senator Facebook Listing
  • We need lots of posts on the issue of poker and lots of "liking" of pro-poker comments.

Thanks!

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr1174

also voting on this page and writing a quick personal story might help.. please pass onto other pages..

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?ui...35&topic=63062

Just wrote messages to all these, plus about ten of the individual news programs. Many of my emails to the ind. shows bounced because their inboxes are full. -_-

Fight for Poker Rights: Wednesday, June 1st:

Let's continue contacting mainstream media companies to tell them to increase their coverage of our important issue. Let's go with CNN for today. Contact info:

• Main contact: www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?35
• Additional points of contact: www.cnn.com/feedback/dotcom
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/cnn?sk=wall

Recurring actions we can take:

• Let's continue to own a lot of Facebook pages (senators, Congressmen, Congressional committees, etc.):
  • The House Financial Services Committee's Facebook page is here.
  • Let's get some posts on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce page (here)
  • The Dept. of Justice's page is here.
  • Senators' FB pages: Senator Facebook Listing
  • We need lots of posts on the issue of poker and lots of "liking" of pro-poker comments.

Thanks!

Keep the pressure on.

I guess I'll just quote this here then because it was deemed a quality enough of a view to be an OP in NVG.

Uuuugh, while I may agree with some of the stuff in that quote I think that should be posted in the PPA forum as its own thread. Working on all of that could be very beneficial but just reading that took the wind out of my sails. It just doesnt seem to be the place for this when we want only 1 focus itt and that is going forth with each days action plan.



Im gonna go regroup now cuz dog damn thats downer.

I was told this is the place to put it if I want to talk about it in NVG, I agree a new thread would be better, it may be moved back here after the Ivey dramabombs die down.

This shouldn't take the wind out of your sails, though. The fact that we're already doing a lot AND have a path so that we're doing a lot more should be a very energizing thought, rather than just feeling stagnant about what we're accomplishing.