Re: Bottom Line on the Internet Gambling Bill
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To bring this thread back on topic...
Poker sites cant really 'pay for votes'. Advocacy takes a three pronged approach. For truely effective advocacy you need:
1) Lobbying
2) Grassroots mobilzation
3) A political action committee
While the poker industry can lobby and mobilize at the grassroots level, they can not spend corporate money (or in this case, foreign corporate money) on elections. Hence, they cant throw cash at politicans. Even if they could, im not sure you would find many politicans taking this money.
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Most political action committee's are made for the the exact purpose of throwing money at politicians. If you think most politicians wont take this money for their re-election campain you are incorrect.
I dont know much about the poker players alliance (or poker players of america, I forget the name), a group party is affiliated with and they even have had bonuses connected to people that donate to this group. But something tells me the PPA is not a group that wants to get party to reduce their rake, increase customer service, or make sure the beta software does not screw peoples image files. This has got to be a group that is there to influence politicans.
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