FoF back at it again - Page 3

CompatiblePoker · #1 08-02-2007, 11:59 PM

I love this line.

Congress passed legislation to protect American families from online gambling predators and to prevent potential threats to our national security

Next on... dateline MSNBC...to catch an online gambling predator.

eddytom · #2 08-03-2007, 12:25 AM

Casino Gambling Web responded to their letter, too.

http://www.casinogamblingweb.com/gamblin...gain_46822.html

Legislurker · #3 08-03-2007, 07:38 AM

I think we are almost to the point we need a UNIFIED gaming political website. Affiliates, players, sites, and software companies. The PPA is dropping the ball. This is the most coherent lobbying place online, but I don't think it has the traffic a website just dedicated to political action would. It doesnt have to be a PAC or 527 or anything, just a place to go for news and support grassroots letter writing, phone calling, and general activity. Who would pay for it, I don't know. A place we can spam links to at poker tables and on blogs, maybe hand out cards in bars, or my old trick, stick them in poker books in Barnes&Nobles. Beg FT and Stars for email lists. AND NOT REVENUE GENERATING. Unless its non gaming. Legality and appearances should matter.

TheEngineer · #4 08-03-2007, 03:35 PM

The good news here is that we're obviously being heard! Also, did you all notice FoF has moved to new arguments? It seems we did a good enough job of rebutting their prior ones that they felt it better to move forward with new ones. Well, we're on offense and they're on defense. I like that! It's good for us. Also, their new point are easily refutable.

I'll write a rebuttal letter over the weekend. Hopefully we'll all do so. We need to show Congress we don't need the government's help to live our lives or to spend our money.

oldbookguy · #5 08-03-2007, 04:51 PM

Much agreed Engineer we are on the offense and I will write a letter and post this weekend as well.

One thing, congress goes on vacation for a month after this weekend.

The presidential candidates will be hitting the road and I will post a complete contact list for them all. Maybe we can split them up and see where they will be appearing and send letters to local media....

obg

Johnny McEldoo · #6 08-03-2007, 07:20 PM

If such a site was created an idea could be to advertise the website through an avatar on sites like Stars. I assume the sites would permit it since i see things like "Cash Man Brain". It would be neat to sit at a table and see others with the same avatar. It could create a little trend and peak interest...

Just a thought...

govman6767 · #7 08-05-2007, 02:36 AM

Do you ppl actually expect anything different from FoF.

If this was a sane country congress would look at the fact that this guy thinks harry potter is destroying the world and just lol in his face.

TheEngineer · #8 08-05-2007, 02:42 AM

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Do you ppl actually expect anything different from FoF.

If this was a sane country congress would look at the fact that this guy thinks harry potter is destroying the world and just lol in his face.

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No. We expected exactly this.

GPrice · #9 08-05-2007, 10:14 AM

Co-sponsors for Barney Frank's Bill to legalize and regulate the industry has reached 35, another congressman signed on Friday.

We at Casino Gambling Web believe the support of this forum and the strong letter writing and phone calling campaigns you guys are persistently doing is helping out tremendously. Please do not let up!

We would also like to let everyone here know that we have postponed our Washington D.C. trip until September as advised by aids to Congressman Frank in the Financial Services Committee. The FoF letter sent out to all congressman and senators was a chess move by FoF meant to counteract and follow up the lobbying that we had done, however, they did not know that we had not done our lobbying yet, so this move backfired on them.

Just to let everyone here know, the petition that we sponsored that includes signatures, along with everyone's comments, will be hand delivered to all congressmen and senators when we go and it is expected to be the strongest document to get their attention. Just an fyi, we have received many questions about the 'anonymous' feature on the petition. Rest assured that when the petition is delivered no names will be anonymous, only to the common web viewer does it show that way.

Again, a sincere thanks must go out to Engineer and the rest at this forum who are great advocates for the cause, if there is anything we at Casino Gambling Web can do, do not hesitate to let us know. we only have a small staff so it is hard to monitor all the forums across the web so please drop us an email at an address listed on our site if there is anything more we can do to help.

The Bandit Fish · #10 08-05-2007, 10:17 AM

Ok, I've got Mambo and phpbb2 setup. It's just the default config right now, so don't expect anything fancy.

For the moment I'd prefer to keep it semi-private (right now it's using one of my domain names which will have to change before it goes public). If you're interested in helping out or just being a part of it, PM me and I'll send you the URL.

Edit: Speaking of domain names, godaddy has .info's for 2.99 per year right now, so if we're serious we should discuss a domain name and which TLD we're interested in. We can go with that standard .com, .net, .org or even .info, .us, etc.