Mason, I deleted that post within seconds of making it.
that's for the record.
but since it has re-appeared, i will respond.
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Originally Posted by loK2thabrain
Good god, man. Pull yourself together. I've browsed this forum every day since black friday, and have only seen or heard the name Gary Johnson a handful of times.
It's not as if they're flooding our inboxes with spam or something. There's a sticky in all the subforums.
Whoop-de-****ing-doo.
get your facts straight, please.
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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth
First off, what friends are you referring to? I had never even met Governor Johnson until we received the initial phone call in May, and first met him in person when he attended our party in July.
As for IMEGA, we felt they were a good organization that might be able to produce some positive results, and we still feel this way.
As for the PPA, while we feel that they are an important organization, that does't mean we are going to sit idle and watch them screw up things and damage it for all of us.
It's our opinion that this has clearly been the case in the past, but fortunately today, mostly thanks to TheEngineer, they appear to be on the right track. In fact, if this improvement wasn't the case, there would be no PPA Forum on 2+2.
So you see that we are capable of making unpopular decisions if we feel that it is best for poker to do so. It also allows us to act in a completely independent manner. And one other important point, unlike many other organizations in our field, we can take criticism as well as dish it out.
Mason
So let's get this straight Mason.
When you threatened to remove the PPA from the 2+2, which was many months before black friday, you did so knowing that the PPA represented the only mobilized lobbyist group solely devoted to legitimizing online poker. Daily, there were threads in the PPA forums about how to reach members of congress, what to write, how to donate, legalities concerning online poker, uigea, tax law, tax filing, and generally how to get involved. That was 95% of the content in the PPA forums. Not the background noise about how/why 2+2 (for those who don't know,
2+2 as a business) was unhappy with the PPA. Yet, you're suddenly allowed to claim that you support GJ because it's the righteous thing (for 2+2) to do for poker players?
Then IIRC, shortly or around thereafter, you created a new subforum for iMEGA, who has
many other interests than just online poker. And you explicitly supported iMEGA over the PPA for many months with posts on the forums.
Last edited by aggo; 11-28-2011 at 01:27 AM.