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Friday, April 6, 2012

Let's keep telling lawmakers to support our rights. The more we do, the stronger our lobbyists will be on the Hill. This helps in moving legislation, but also helps them in pushing for player-friendly provisions:

- Let's send the House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade members 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, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's send prefilled, fully editable tweets to Sen Reid, Sen. Kyl, and Sen. McConnell: HERE, HERE, and HERE
- Let's send the Senate Indian Affairs Committee members tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's post and like pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Rep. Ander Crenshaw HERE, Rep. Joseph Crowley HERE, Rep. Danny K. Davis HERE, Rep. Diana DeGette HERE, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro HERE.
- Let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 195 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Let's keep telling lawmakers to support our rights. The more we do, the stronger our lobbyists will be on the Hill. This helps in moving legislation, but also helps them in pushing for player-friendly provisions:

- Let's send the House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade members 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, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's send prefilled, fully editable tweets to Sen Reid, Sen. Kyl, and Sen. McConnell: HERE, HERE, and HERE
- Let's send the Senate Indian Affairs Committee members tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's post and like pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Rep. Charlie Dent HERE, Rep. Scott DesJarlais HERE, Rep. Ted Deutch HERE, Rep. Lloyd Doggett HERE, and Rep. Robert J. Dold HERE.
- Let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc.to encourage others to participate. The past 196 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

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Monday, April 9, 2012

Let's keep telling lawmakers to support our rights!

- Let's send the House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade members 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, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's send prefilled, fully editable tweets to Sen Reid, Sen. Kyl, and Sen. McConnell: HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Tweets to U.S. senators: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Let's post and like pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Rep. Eliot Engel HERE, Rep. Joe Donnelly HERE, Rep. Jeff Flake HERE, Rep. Bill Flores HERE, and Rep. Jeff Fortenberry HERE.
- Let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc. to encourage others to participate. The past 197 actions have generated triple-digit participation, so let's keep it growing. Thanks!

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Done. It appears that Congresscritter Flores is deleting our posts though. There always has to be one in the crowd. Tsk.

That's ridiculous

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

April 15th marks the one year anniversary of Black Friday. PPA is marking this anniversary with the Players Will Never Fold campaign, so let's all participate:

- Our emails, tweets, and Facebook messages matter! Let's let Congress know that licensing and regulating online poker is an important issue to us by sending prefilled tweets, Facebook, and the newly updated PPA prefilled letter to our elected representatives. Simply click HERE.
- Download the PPA Black Friday logo, avatar, and banners for your website, forum avatar, and Facebook profile picture. Let's let everyone we are proud to play poker and will never fold! Simply click HERE.
- Joining the PPA keeps you updated on the latest news with weekly updates, gives you access to great membership benefits, and allows you to support the fight to protect America’s favorite card game. Simply click HERE.
- Let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

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That's ridiculous

I posted a response, at http://www.facebook.com/BillFloresForCongress/posts/10150666914978757. We'll see how long it lasts, I guess:

Dear Rep. Flores,

I observed many posts advocating for online poker licensing here earlier and am disappointed and dismayed to see that they have been deleted. Poker licensing legislation a legitimate issue for discussion, especially as legislation has been introduced to the Congress (HR 2366, Texas Rep. Joe Barton's Online Poker Act).

Proponents are proud to exercise their rights to free speech and to petition government for redress of grievances -- rights guaranteed to us by the First Amendment. I understand if you wish to make a post regarding your thoughts on the online poker issue and ask that poker comments be made there, but I cannot understand why you would instead seek to silence online poker proponents.

Thank you for your consideration.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Let's keep telling lawmakers to support our rights!

- Let's send the Senate Indian Affairs Committee members these tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Tweets to U.S. senators: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE. HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) responded to us. Let's like and post courteous, respectful comments HERE while being sure to thank him for replying.

- Let's post and like pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Rep. Geoff Davis (my rep) HERE. Let's also help out a pro-poker poster who's getting a lot of trollish responses to his pro-poker post HERE.
- Let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

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