Counter Offensive, How we deter our politicians and keep our game

[Wake up CALL]

I don't think picking Missouri is a very good choice for the below reasons at this link:

1. Money lost while gambling can be recovered through civil action.
2. Gambling is considered unlawful if promoted by a person, is played by an unprofessional, more than hundred dollars are put at stake.
3. The growth of casinos in Missouri is not fully advantageous because it also has certain ill effects like the crimes associated with casinos, where innocent parties are often harmed. In fact St Louis one of the prominent cities in Missouri is considered to be the 2nd most dangerous cities in the whole of USA, and this is primarily due to casino crimes. There are also other felonies like gambling corruption where insiders get benefited by corrupt practices. Also underage gambling is becoming a big problem in Missouri and experts say this can soon lead to addiction.
4. International Lottery and Internet gambling is strictly prohibited


http://www.missourigamblingforum.com/

I can't see any elected representative from Missouri no matter their party afilliation doing anything other than taking your money and smiling all the way to Washington DC.

[Guthrie]

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Great post!!! this is what I am doing also, I am a life long reublican - i will vote out the incumbent at the local, state, and national level, and continue to do so every election, we have allowed our freedoms to be stripped from us, this is not the first time, and its up to us, to stop it

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[CallYNotRaise06]

if wake up call is correct, we should definitly look for a better place to send our money. i think we should keep looking around, then post all of our options and pick 1 that will help us out the most.

[Indiana]

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if wake up call is correct, we should definitly look for a better place to send our money. i think we should keep looking around, then post all of our options and pick 1 that will help us out the most.

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there's no time for teh b.s. bro. the election is in 2 wks. this is a good idea.

[latefordinner]

Come on man, you can't pull crap off of an anti-gambling website and expect it to be anything but one-sided. St Louis has more casinos than any city I've ever lived in and it specifically is NOT one of the sites often shut out by carious online casinos (pre-ban) or currently BonusWhores or anything else.

The point of this isn't to champion a legislator who we think is going to ride into Washington and demand poker legalization, it's to get those in the political scene talking about how all this money seems to be coming in from swing voters against Republicans because they pushed this ban through.

For those of you that like the Repubs in general (I'm a democrat myself), I think we have a better chance of traditional small-govt repubs putting some pressure on the party (Look this is ridiculous, as a party we're not about big government and now this pandering is costing us more votes than we are gaining from the RR, we need to win back these voters, blah blah blah) because of this, but only if they see/hear that the party as a whole is losing support because of its big-christian-morality-police fringe

[candyman718]

Please, let's not be sidetracked by this analysis of Missouri Laws. This is not an election for Governor of Missouri. We are trying to send both parties a message that poker players can be a political force. Trying to influence which party controls the U.S. Senate and dealing a defeat to the party that was in power when this bill was jammed down our throats is the best way to do this. Let's make it happen.

[cowboyzfan]

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Please, let's not be sidetracked by this analysis of Missouri Laws. This is not an election for Governor of Missouri. We are trying to send both parties a message that poker players can be a political force. Trying to influence which party controls the U.S. Senate and dealing a defeat to the party that was in power when this bill was jammed down our throats is the best way to do this. Let's make it happen.

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[censored], do you work for the Mccaskill campaign? We are here because we support poker, not Democratic upstarts in Missouri. BTW, Talent is leading in the latest polls.

[candyman718]

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Please, let's not be sidetracked by this analysis of Missouri Laws. This is not an election for Governor of Missouri. We are trying to send both parties a message that poker players can be a political force. Trying to influence which party controls the U.S. Senate and dealing a defeat to the party that was in power when this bill was jammed down our throats is the best way to do this. Let's make it happen.

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[censored], do you work for the Mccaskill campaign?

no

We are here because we support poker, not Democratic upstarts in Missouri.

this is a great way to do it

BTW, Talent is leading in the latest polls.

too close to call
see link - http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp200...ssouri.html<br />
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[PA32R]

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Jon Kyl was elected to the U.S. Senate from Arizona in 1994 and re-elected in 2000, after having served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves on the Senate’s Finance Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, and on the Judiciary Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security. As chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, he is one of six members of the Senate Republican Leadership.

This guy is toxic to online gaming. In 1997 he introduced S.474
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquer...p;summ2=m&amp;
Ten years ago! And of course he didn't give up between then; actually seeing some of his legislation pass the Senate only to die in the House. This guy is public enemy #1 for online poker. Send money to Pederson.

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I'm down with the Mccaskill money, but I checked the link above. Holy crap!! If you go there, have a look at the co-sponsors. My beloved (sw) Senator Feinstein is on the list as is Lieberman, Reid, etc. Democrats are no more on our side than Republicans. I think the op's idea is good and have contributed. I STRONGLY recommend staying on point and not getting into the Demo-Repub argument. Neither will listen unless we show we can hurt their incumbency.

[Insp. Clue!So?]

You people should be crawling the tubes and wires of Myspace with this stuff.

Ditto, should be, Thomas Paine-like, spiking placards and quick-read bulletins on noticeboards in every dorm and mess hall in America.

Hang 'em there with bowie knives if you must.

And an editorial in every campus and community paper, emphasizing the destruction of personal freedom, the raw, arrogant invasion of our home by busy-body politicians, the cast expense enforcing unworkable laws, the flaunting of international law, the thief-in-the-night means of ramming the bill down our throats, and so on.

Onward, Poker Soldiers...Mason and others afflicted with the dread disease Affluenza (and the cowardice that necessarily follows...or the laryngitis, anyway) may well be asleep at the wheel, but you don't have to be.