Response from my Representative

[yoursmine]

I received this today in my email...looks like a form letter

Thank you for contacting me to express your opinions about the Unlawful Internet Gambling
Enforcement Act (H.R. 4411). I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with me.

While I understand your concerns about government regulation of this industry, I believe it's
important to keep in mind that financial transactions taking place over the internet can have a
serious impact on our nation's economic and national security interests.

Unregulated gambling websites have the ability to send American dollars out of the U.S. and into
the hands of unknown, sometimes untraceable recipients. These types of transactions expose the
financial services industry to the possibility of criminal and terrorist activity, and make U.S.
citizens vulnerable to fraud, identify theft, and other personal scams.

In addition, internet gambling hurts families, and causes debt collection problems for banks and
the consumer credit industry. The added cost of their efforts to collect on gambling debt is
ultimately passed on to consumers like you.

On Saturday, September 30 of this year, the House and Senate passed this measure as part of the
port security conference report, H.R. 4954. It prevents the use of credit cards, wire transfers, or
any other bank instrument to fund gaming transactions. The bill was signed into law by the
President on October 13, 2006.

While we may not agree on the outcome of this bill, I do hope that we can find some common ground
on other important issues affecting our nation and the State of North Carolina. For more
information on what I am doing for you in Congress, visit www.myrick.house.gov and sign up for my
eNewsletter.

Sincerely,

Sue Myrick
Member of Congress

[Indiana]

I'd reply and ask him for just 1 example of how online poker has ever put $$$ into bad hands.

Indy

[yoursmine]

Well its a she but you are right.

Whats funny is here in NC we just recently got the lottery. The initial commissioner of the lottery is being indicted on all sorts of charges. Guess the lottery improprieties are ok with our elected representatives.

[Indiana]

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Well its a she but you are right.

Whats funny is here in NC we just recently got the lottery. The initial commissioner of the lottery is being indicted on all sorts of charges. Guess the lottery improprieties are ok with our elected representatives.

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Not to mention that god damn Cherokee casino u guys have. Also, doesn't NC produce more tobacco than all the other 49 states combined? Such hypocrisy.

[WaimanaloSlim]

That so many of our representatives believe that there is a link between internet gambling sites and terrorism is bewildering. Do they actually have evidence for this, or are they just making $hit up? Un-f-cking-believable.

And if my records show that I'm making money off online poker, can I get an exemption, since I'm likely to be taking money away from the terrorists?

[HSB]

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That so many of our representatives believe that there is a link between internet gambling sites and terrorism is bewildering. Do they actually have evidence for this, or are they just making $hit up? Un-f-cking-believable.

And if my records show that I'm making money off online poker, can I get an exemption, since I'm likely to be taking money away from the terrorists?

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Perhaps they have just been watching Casino Royale too much.

Seriously, where do they get this stuff? Sure, for all we know, PokerStars profits go right into the pockets of Osama. Do we have any actual evidence that they do? If so, show me a bit of it and I'll voluntarily never play there again.

[Soul Rebel]

My NC congressman, Mel Watt, sent me a letter outlining why he thought it was a ridiculous piece of legislation. Basically agreeing with all the arguments we talk about on here and how he voted against the bill in July. I'll be voting for him as long as keeps running.

But yes, seriously ask her for one documented example.

[kevstreet]

"Unregulated gambling websites have the ability to send American dollars out of the U.S. and into
the hands of unknown, sometimes untraceable recipients."

So REGULATE them, please.

[whangarei]

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That so many of our representatives believe that there is a link between internet gambling sites and terrorism is bewildering. Do they actually have evidence for this, or are they just making $hit up? Un-f-cking-believable.

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Of course there's no evidence for this. Standard post-9/11 Republican rhetoric: anything they don't like they label it "terrorism."

[MagCFO]

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I'd reply and ask him for just 1 example of how online poker has ever put $$$ into bad hands.

Indy

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Ah, we might want to be more specific than "bad hands". There are plenty of bad seeds in the online gaming world. Terrorist, no, but bad people, absolutely.