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Monday, February 20, 2012

The Cybersecurity Act (S. 2105) is our next chance for inclusion into legislation. We're clearly germane to that discussion, so let's all do our part to ensure Congress hears from us!

- Let's email the Senate Committee on Homeland Security HERE. Simply ask them to add online poker licensing to the Cybersecurity Act. For some text for a starting point, copy-and-paste the text from the PPA prewritten letter to Congress here.

- Let's send members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee NEW tweets requesting addition of online poker licensing to the Cybersecurity Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's send Sen. Reid, Sen. McConnell, Sen. Kyl, Rep. Boehner, and Rep. Cantor NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. Let's also post to Sen. Reid's new FB wall HERE.
- Let's reach out to Senate Homeland Security Committee members via Facebook: Homeland Security Committee HERE; Lieberman, Joseph I. (Chair) HERE; Akaka, Daniel K. HERE; Begich, Mark HERE; and Brown, Scott P. HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 160 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

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If you wish to do more today, let's keep contacting the Senate Homeland Security Committee:

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Homeland Security Committee: Facebook (today's plan)
Lieberman, Joseph I. (Chair): Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)
Akaka, Daniel K.: Facebook Twitter (today's plan)
Begich, Mark: Facebook Twitter (today's plan)
Brown, Scott P.: Facebook Twitter Twitter (today's plan)
Carper, Thomas R.: Facebook Twitter
Coburn, Tom: Facebook Twitter
Collins, Susan M.: Facebook Twitter
Johnson, Ron: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter Twitter
Landrieu, Mary L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Levin, Carl: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
McCain, John: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
McCaskill, Claire: Facebook Twitter
Moran, Jerry: Facebook Twitter
Paul, Rand: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Portman, Rob: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Pryor, Mark L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Tester, Jon: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter

I did it all.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Cybersecurity Act (S. 2105) is our next chance for inclusion into legislation. We're clearly germane to that discussion, so let's all do our part to ensure Congress hears from us!

- Let's contact the House Committee on Homeland Security HERE to ask for inclusion in a yet-to-be-introduced House cybersecurity bill. They don't accept email, but we can phone and fax them. For a starting point for fax text, copy-and-paste the PPA prewritten lettertoCongress here. For a free fax service, click here for the Google search results.

- Let's send members of the House Committee on Homeland Security NEW tweets requesting inclusion of online poker licensing into the House version of the Cybersecurity Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. Let's also post to the committee's FB wall HERE.
- Let's send Sen. Reid, Sen. McConnell, Sen. Kyl, Rep. Boehner, and Rep. Cantor NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

- Let's reach out to Senate Homeland Security Committee members via Facebook: Carper, Thomas R. HERE; Coburn, Tom HERE; Collins, Susan HERE; Johnson, Ron HERE; and Landrieu, Mary HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 161 actions have generated triple-digitparticipation, so let's keep itgrowing.Thanks!

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If you wish to do more today, let's keep contacting the Senate Homeland Security Committee:

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Homeland Security Committee: Facebook (2/21 plan)
Lieberman, Joseph I. (Chair): Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/21 plan)
Akaka, Daniel K.: Facebook Twitter (2/21 plan)
Begich, Mark: Facebook Twitter (2/21 plan)
Brown, Scott P.: Facebook Twitter Twitter (2/21 plan)
Carper, Thomas R.: Facebook Twitter (today's plan)
Coburn, Tom: Facebook Twitter (today's plan)
Collins, Susan M.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)
Johnson, Ron: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter Twitter (today's plan)
Landrieu, Mary L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)
Levin, Carl: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
McCain, John: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
McCaskill, Claire: Facebook Twitter
Moran, Jerry: Facebook Twitter
Paul, Rand: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Portman, Rob: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Pryor, Mark L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Tester, Jon: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter

Thanks Sajeffe!!!!

Thanks Sajeffe!!!!

got your back too. it's now or never.

Done, again. Gogogogogo.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Online poker is clearly being discussed on Capitol Hill. Let's all do our part to ensure Congress hears from us!

- Let's send members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee NEW tweets requesting addition of online poker licensing to the Cybersecurity Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's contact more Senate Homeland Security Committee members via Facebook: Sen. Levin HERE; Sen. McCain HERE; Sen. McCaskill HERE; Sen. Moran HERE; and Sen. Paul HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 162 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

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If you wish to do more today, let's keep contacting the Senate Homeland Security Committee:

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Homeland Security Committee: Facebook (2/21 plan)
Lieberman, Joseph I. (Chair): Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/21 plan)
Akaka, Daniel K.: Facebook Twitter (2/21 plan)
Begich, Mark: Facebook Twitter (2/21 plan)
Brown, Scott P.: Facebook Twitter Twitter (2/21 plan)
Carper, Thomas R.: Facebook Twitter (2/22 plan)
Coburn, Tom: Facebook Twitter (2/22 plan)
Collins, Susan M.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/22 plan)
Johnson, Ron: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter Twitter (2/22 plan)
Landrieu, Mary L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/22 plan)
Levin, Carl: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)
McCain, John: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)
McCaskill, Claire: Facebook Twitter (today's plan)
Moran, Jerry: Facebook Twitter (today's plan)
Paul, Rand: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)
Portman, Rob: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Pryor, Mark L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter
Tester, Jon: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter

Done.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Online poker is clearly being discussed on Capitol Hill. Let's all do our part to ensure Congress hears from us!

- Let's send House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Chair Mary Bono Mack and the rest of the subcommittee NEW tweets requesting a markup for HR 2366: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's contact more Senate Homeland Security Committee members via Facebook: Sen. Portman HERE; Sen. Pryor HERE; and Sen. Tester HERE & HERE.
- Let's post pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of some mainstream media HERE and some potentially anti-poker lawmakers HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 162 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

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If you wish to do more today, let's keep contacting the Senate Homeland Security Committee:

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Homeland Security Committee: Facebook (2/21 plan)
Lieberman, Joseph I. (Chair): Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/21 plan)
Akaka, Daniel K.: Facebook Twitter (2/21 plan)
Begich, Mark: Facebook Twitter (2/21 plan)
Brown, Scott P.: Facebook Twitter Twitter (2/21 plan)
Carper, Thomas R.: Facebook Twitter (2/22 plan)
Coburn, Tom: Facebook Twitter (2/22 plan)
Collins, Susan M.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/22 plan)
Johnson, Ron: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter Twitter (2/22 plan)
Landrieu, Mary L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/22 plan)
Levin, Carl: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)
McCain, John: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)
McCaskill, Claire: Facebook Twitter (2/23 plan)
Moran, Jerry: Facebook Twitter (2/23 plan)
Paul, Rand: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)
Portman, Rob: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)
Pryor, Mark L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)
Tester, Jon: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (today's plan)

Done. Did a little extras today, too. Hit some poker peeps with some tweets. Some of them were kind enough to retweet to their followers.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Online poker is being discussed on Capitol Hill. Let's all do our part through the weekend to ensure Congress hears from us!

- Let's email the House Energy & Commerce Committee to ask for a markup of HR 2366, the Online Poker Act, HERE. For some text for a starting point, simply copy-and-paste the text from the PPA prewritten letter to Congress here.
- Let's send members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee NEW tweets requesting addition of online poker licensing to the Cybersecurity Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's send Sen. Reid, Sen. McConnell, Sen. Kyl, Rep. Boehner, and Rep. Cantor NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Now that we've had a few daily actions where we've posted on the Facebook walls of all the Senate Homeland Security Committee members, let's go back today and through the weekend to like the pro-poker comments: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's post pro-poker comments to some the Facebook walls of some the mainstream media HERE and some potentially anti-poker lawmakers HERE. We can't do them all at once, of course, but let's all try to hit three of each.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 163 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

Weekend of February 25th, 2012

Online poker is being discussed on Capitol Hill. Let's all do our part through the weekend to ensure Congress hears from us!

- Let's send members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee NEW tweets requesting addition of online poker licensing to the Cybersecurity Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's send Sen. Reid, Sen. McConnell, Sen. Kyl, Rep. Boehner, and Rep. Cantor NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Now that we've had a few daily actions where we've posted on the Facebook walls of all the Senate Homeland Security Committee members, let's go back and like the pro-poker comments: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's post pro-poker comments to some the Facebook walls of some the mainstream media HERE and some potentially anti-poker lawmakers HERE. We can't do them all at once, of course, but let's all try to hit three of these each day.

- Let's send a NEW prefilled tweet promoting the daily action plan HERE, and let's share this action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 164 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

Monday, February 27, 2012

Online poker is being discussed on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across America. Let's all do our part through the weekend to ensure lawmakers hear from us!

- Let's send House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Chair Mary Bono Mack and the rest of the subcommittee NEW tweets requesting a markup for HR 2366: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's send Sen. Reid, Sen. McConnell, Sen. Kyl, Rep. Boehner, and Rep. Cantor NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 165 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

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If you wish to do more today, please consider posting pro-poker comments to some the Facebook walls of some the mainstream media HERE and some potentially anti-poker lawmakers HERE. We can't do them all at once, of course, but let's all try to hit three of these each day.

Let's also keep contacting the Senate Homeland Security Committee:

Homeland Security Committee: Facebook (2/21 plan)
Lieberman, Joseph I. (Chair): Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/21 plan)
Akaka, Daniel K.: Facebook Twitter (2/21 plan)
Begich, Mark: Facebook Twitter (2/21 plan)
Brown, Scott P.: Facebook Twitter Twitter (2/21 plan)
Carper, Thomas R.: Facebook Twitter (2/22 plan)
Coburn, Tom: Facebook Twitter (2/22 plan)
Collins, Susan M.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/22 plan)
Johnson, Ron: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter Twitter (2/22 plan)
Landrieu, Mary L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/22 plan)
Levin, Carl: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)
McCain, John: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)
McCaskill, Claire: Facebook Twitter (2/23 plan)
Moran, Jerry: Facebook Twitter (2/23 plan)
Paul, Rand: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)
Portman, Rob: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)
Pryor, Mark L.: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)
Tester, Jon: Facebook [Post where we can comment] Facebook [Post where we can comment] Twitter (2/23 plan)

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Online poker is being discussed on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across America. Let's keep demanding action on online poker licensing legislation:

- Let's sign the pro-poker online petition HERE and then let's promote it via the new prefilled tweet HERE and by sharing the post HERE on our own Facebook walls.
- Let's send members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee NEW tweets requesting addition of online poker licensing to the Cybersecurity Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's send Sen. Reid, Sen. McConnell, Sen. Kyl, Rep. Boehner, and Rep. Cantor NEW tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE and HERE.

Please reply in this thread with signed', tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 166 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

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If you wish to do more today, please consider posting pro-poker comments to some the Facebook walls of some the mainstream media HERE and some potentially anti-poker lawmakers HERE. We can't do them all at once, of course, but let's all try to hit three of these each day.

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I answered a few questions from posters on the rationale and effectiveness of the online petition:

Didn't we do the Change.gov petition some time ago?

Change.org is a nonpartisan online petition site that is not affiliated with Change.gov.

What good will it do?

Change.org emails the petition recipients when we sign, helping increase overall effectiveness and ensure we are heard from:

Think of it this way: what if you started to receive emails from each of your neighbors asking you to mow your lawn more often? Or, what if your company received thousands of emails from valued customers asking you to use a different supplier for your parts? How quickly would you act?

That’s the unique thing about creating an online petition on Change.org: when you specify an email address for your target, each time a supporter signs your petition, an email is automatically sent directly to that person. Governments, companies and individuals value their reputations and feel accountable to their neighbors, constituents and customers. When hundreds or even thousands of emails arrive in their inboxes, the message is very hard to ignore.

Also, this one isn't to Obama. It's to Reid, McConnell, Kyl, Boehner, and Cantor.

Additionally, PPA lobbyists will be able to hand deliver the results.

Waste of time! I'm sorry PPA I support you guys but these things are a joke.

We are pretty fortunate to be in an era where others have made tools for us, like Twitter, Facebook, and 2+2, that we use every day in our fight back. Now we have Change.org -- another free tool where we can reach out our elected representatives beyond the standard constituent letter.

I had family, friends and anyone else I could sign the last 2 or 3 and nothing came of them.

I thank you for having them sign the petitions, but how can you say nothing has come of that effort? Five years ago, the House voted to ban online poker by a 3 to 1 margin (that was, fortunately, watered down in the Senate backrooms before becoming UIGEA). They are now looking at licensing it, knowing that if they don't, states will. Even Bachus isn't entertaining the idea of passing legislation to amend the Wire Act to include online poker.

It seems quite a lot has come from our efforts as a community.

Obama promised to respond to 2 of them (and did not).

We're simply not a traditional issue. We won't be treated the same as more mainstream issues, unfortunately. Again, the House voted 3-1 to ban us in 2006. There's a reason for that.

Ipoker will come back when those in power decide to let it. Be it state or fed level.

They won't just wake up and have an epiphany. It's not like they'll say, you know....no one has asked for online poker legislation, but let's go ahead and license it. They'll decide to back us when they feel their constituents want it.

if the big money casino corp. can't get the people they pay to get elected to act on their behalf our petition with 500 signatures isn't going to mean squat.

Casinos are lobbying for this, as is PPA. We'll just have to keep pushing forward.

even if its highly unlikely they read the petition or not, it took me under a minute to do and another minute to share on my wall.

+1

Can anyone imagine the NRA saying well, there's no use in writing to Congress....they'll do whatever they want on guns? Neither side of the abortion debate has decided to stop being active on the assumption that Congress will just magically come around to their side on their own. Our opponents didn't stop asking Congress to ban online poker and online gaming in the run up to the 2006 legislation. I'm glad you see how obvious it is that we have to do our part to tell Congress what we want here.