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We can follow his responses on twitter or watch Senator Reid's responses to the tweets on a live feed from 4:00-4:30EST here:

http://democrats.senate.gov/askreid/

There is still time to get some last minute requests in for this. Use #AskReidTH on twitter and ask Reid if he is going to support online poker legislation this fall.

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09-14-2011 , 02:32 PM

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kowboys4

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done.

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09-14-2011 , 02:43 PM

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ammo

centurion

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done

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09-14-2011 , 03:03 PM

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vicnice

adept

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Done!

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09-14-2011 , 03:33 PM

#1632

mantasm

adept

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,164

Done. This is an easy one to get your friends and family to do. Just email them or IM them a link and give them some text to copy/paste.

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09-14-2011 , 03:59 PM

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KingDan

Carpal \'Tunnel

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done

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09-14-2011 , 04:05 PM

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Rich Muny

Former PPA President

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 28,010

Sen. Reid's town hall is about to begin. Hope he answers the poker questions! http://democrats.senate.gov/askreid

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09-14-2011 , 04:08 PM

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philliptw

enthusiast

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done

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09-14-2011 , 04:14 PM

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Reedy174

journeyman

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mention poker mention poker mention poker mention poker mention poker. Didn't we outnumber all other tweets like, 2-1?

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09-14-2011 , 04:16 PM

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Reedy174

journeyman

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AHHHHHH THERE IT IS!!!!

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09-14-2011 , 04:17 PM

#1638

Rich Muny

Former PPA President

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 28,010

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Originally Posted by TheEngineer

Sen. Reid's town hall is about to begin. Hope he answers the poker questions! http://democrats.senate.gov/askreid

He's talking about poker now. Yay.

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09-14-2011 , 04:27 PM

#1639

sluggger5x

John Connor of poker

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 5,592

SenatorReid Senator Harry Reid
Online poker is played by millions of Americans daily in an essentially unregulated environ. #AskReidTH
1 minute ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

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09-14-2011 , 04:48 PM

#1640

Jerok

old hand

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What did he say? I just missed it

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09-14-2011 , 05:05 PM

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Rich Muny

Former PPA President

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 28,010

Tweet from Niels Lesniewski, at https://twitter.com/#!/nielslesniewski/status/114070293970026496:

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@SenatorReid takes question about the poker bill. Says it would create jobs. Paging @RalstonFlash .

@nielslesniewski Washington, D.C.
Editor of CQ SenateWatch for CQ Roll Call
http://corporate.cqrollcall.com/cont...CQ_SenateWatch

Jon Ralston RTed it.

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09-14-2011 , 05:20 PM

#1642

beachbum

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I pretty much do the Action Plan daily and never post done, but today I will. Done, ftw!

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09-14-2011 , 05:39 PM

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Tryptamean

Carpal \'Tunnel

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done, first time doing daily action plan. pretty easy

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09-14-2011 , 06:12 PM

#1644

Rich Muny

Former PPA President

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Good story on the Reid TH:

Harry Reid Addresses Online Poker in Twitter “Town Hall”

PPA media campaign brings online poker to forefront of online discussion.

By Michael Gentile

http://pokerfuse.com/news/law-legisl...ter-town-hall/

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US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hosted his first Twitter “Town Hall” Meeting today ....

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Just before the town hall meeting started, a quick glance at the tweets included the hashtag showed an overwhelming majority of the questions were seeking a response from Senator Reid regarding the economic benefits that regulating online poker would provide.

Rich Muny, Vice President of Player Relations for the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), and many dedicated supporters have launched an aggressive social media campaign...

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The hard work done by the PPA and its members to encourage poker players to accept Senator Reid’s invitation paid off. Reid addressed the issue of online poker by pledging his support. He cautioned that he is “opposed to online gaming [except for] online poker” but emphasized, “online poker would create jobs: and lots of jobs.”

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09-14-2011 , 06:17 PM

#1645

Rich Muny

Former PPA President

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 28,010

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Originally Posted by TheEngineer

Reid addressed the issue of online poker by pledging his support. He cautioned that he is “opposed to online gaming [except for] online poker” but emphasized, “online poker would create jobs: and lots of jobs.”

IMO this is evidence of the great work of the poker community. Sometimes all we have to do is tip the scales just a bit in our favor by demonstrating support for what we're doing.

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09-14-2011 , 06:34 PM

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Rich Muny

Former PPA President

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 28,010

Here's an AP story that quotes it: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011...-ld-writethru/

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<snip> The bulk of the questions appeared to come from participants who want Congress to legalize online poker.

Reid, a former Nevada state gambling regulator, unsuccessfully pushed a bill to legalize online poker at the end of last year. The Department of Justice indicted in April executives and payment processors of online poker's three biggest companies _ PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker.

Reid reiterated his support for online poker during the town hall, but stopped short of promising to usher a bill through the Senate this year.
"Online poker would create jobs and lots of jobs," he said.

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09-14-2011 , 06:51 PM

#1647

LetsGambool

banned

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Sounds like he's clearly on our side but nothing is imminent. Would have been more optimistic if he had clarified his "online poker will get done" statement.

I think the jobs line is complete bs, but am glad to see that meme continuing to get traction.

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09-14-2011 , 07:00 PM

#1648

LastLife

Pooh-Bah

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63548.html

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Re...ll-2169893.php

I'm sure it will go around.

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09-14-2011 , 07:34 PM

#1649

beachbum

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,420

I was thinking it might be a good idea to create a thread or sticky of only the Daily Action Plans we've had going back for several weeks now. This would give new participants an easy way to find more actions they can take if they wish, at least ones that are still relevant. These DAP's are located throughout this thread, but it's obviously pretty cumbersome to sort through it and find them all. Just an idea.

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09-14-2011 , 07:43 PM

#1650

beachbum

old hand

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If we're looking for more DAP ideas, we could always go back and vote up HR2366 on POPVOX since we're getting a lot of new participants. I'm not sure it's more valuable than the stuff we've been doing, but it's pretty quick and easy.

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