X-Post: Fight for Online Gaming!! Support the Frank Bill Here

[Money2Burn]

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[fsuplayer]

this is an awesome interview with barney frank about the poker bill. it STRESSES over and over how important it is to get people to call/email in in large numbers. he said that 500 calls per representative would most likely get the bill passed. plz plz plz call and use that email form for as many people that u can find. u just need have a matching name and mailing address.


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[Chaostracize]

Ok...

To advertise on Facebook is INSANELY cheap. We all have a lot of money. If you can set aside $25 dollars a day (for maximum exposure but you can do $5, too, I believe) you can send out a TON of ads on Facebook. So many students would be willing to sign the auto-form. This [censored] is so easy. I'm setting it up on the Ithaca network tonight. I don't mind investing a hundo or so to get these ads out.

Here's an easy way to be slightly more proactive than sending out a form yourself.

Anyone going to join me in this?

Edit: It's only $5 a day. FIVE DOLLARS. That sends out TEN THOUSAND FLIERS. Throw it up for a week, that's $35 dollars and it reaches SO MANY PEOPLE.

Please do this.

[TheEngineer]

Fight for Online Gaming!! -- Plan for week of 6/11 & 6/18

Would you like to fight for your rights to play poker online? If so, please see Fight for Online Gaming!! -- Weekly action thread on the Legislation board. Thanks.

P.S. Let's keep all the discussion in the main thread in Legislation.

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Well, we're gaining some momentum! We have a long way to go, but it's great to see progress. Robert Wexler will introduce a "skills game" exception to UIGEA today. Also, IGREA is gaining some steam. The hearing is tomorrow, so there's some real progress. Also, HR 2140, Rep. Shelley Berkley's [D-NV] Internet gambling study bill, is progressing with 60 cosponsors. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has indicated his support for the study bill. Finally, the UIGEA regulations are due on 7/10. Our opponents are complaining that the regs aren't "tough" enough, so we have an opportunity there.

It seems there's a lot we can be doing right now. And, we really need to do it RIGHT NOW. So, based on our group discussions, let's do the following:
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1. Please contact your congressman and senators by phone and by mail and ask them to support and cosponsor the Wexler poker bill (let's wait until it's out first, so we don't look like we don't read things we endorse, of course).

2. Please contact your congressman and senators by phone and by mail to praise the outcome of the 6/8 IGREA hearing and to encourage them to support the legislation.

3. Write to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Treasury Secretary Paulson. Ask them not to exceed the specific mandates of UIGEA when drafting legislation. Remind them that online poker is not illegal under any federal law. Focus on the Family is asking their members to write to Paulson and Bush to request tough regulations. See http://www.citizenlink.org/FOSI/gamb...A000004244.cfm , a Focus site. We should counterbalance this effort. Also, Sen. Kyl asked Gonzales for tough regulations during the AG Senate hearings. We should counterbalance this as well.

I realize this was an action from last time, but since then the FBI now claims online gambling is illegal in the U.S., at http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june07/gambling060607.htm , so we really should speak up for ourselves, IMHO.

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If you’ve ever thought about visiting a cyber casino, here’s something you should know: it’s illegal to gamble online in the United States.

“You can go to Vegas. You can go to Atlantic City. You can go to a racetrack. You can go to those places and gamble legally. But don’t do it online. It’s against the law,” says Leslie Bryant, head of our Cyber Crime Fraud unit at FBI Headquarters.

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4. Now that we have bills out there, we should try to work on our public image. Let's write to newspapers, magazines, post to blogs, etc. with positives of online poker/gaming. </font> </font>

Thanks everyone!

[TheEngineer]

Would you like to fight for your rights to play poker online? Of course you do! Please see this week's action item thread on the Legislation board. Thanks.

P.S. Let's keep all the discussion in the main thread in Legislation.

Thanks everyone!

[dangerfish]

I'm on it. I'll have my senator begging for mercy by monday.

[TheEngineer]

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I'm on it. I'll have my senator begging for mercy by monday.

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[TheEngineer]

Casino Gambling Web is sending representatives to Washington this month. They'll be taking, among other things, online signatures to repeal UIGEA. Please take a moment RIGHT NOW to fill it out, at www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/306149419 , and don't forget to have your spouse sign it as well (once you sign, you'll have to wait ten minutes or so before you can log back on for others in your household to sign).

Info is at http://www.prnewsnow.com/P.......20D.C.. Focus on the Family is very worried about this, so you know it's good for us. Their statement is at www.citizenlink.org/FOSI/gambling/cog/A000004244.cfm .

This is a x-post from Legislation. The parent thread is at Casino Gambling Web Representatives Headed to Washington!. Please keep all discussion there. However, I would appreciate a bump or a sticky for this important effort.

Thanks.

[TheEngineer]

Fight for Online Gaming!! -- Plan for week of 7/16

Summary of actions:
1. Contact Steven D. Laughton (the UIGEA Treasury Dept. focal point), Treas. Sec. Paulson, and Atty. Gen Gonzales, and Steven D. Laughton to advocate for minimum UIGEA regs.
2. Post the link to the "Repeal UIGEA" online petition at www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/306149419 wherever you can (blogs, libertarian sites, Wikipedia, etc.), as it will be hand-delivered to each senator and representative later this month.
3. Write to Congress
4. Write to newspapers and post to blogs

Please see Fight for Online Gaming!! for details. Thanks!

[TheEngineer]

Fight for Online Gaming!! -- Plan for week of 7/23

Summary of actions:
1. Write to Treasury and DOJ officials AT LEAST ONCE PER WEEK to request the minimum possible UIGEA regulations.
2. Write to your governor and to your state representatives.
3. Regularly write to Congress.
4. Write to newspapers and post to blogs.

Please see Fight for Online Gaming!! for details. Thanks!