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Friday, May 4, 2012

Let's keep telling lawmakers to support our rights:

- Let's send House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Chair Mary Bono Mack and the rest of the subcommittee tweets requesting a markup for HR 2366, the Online Poker Act: 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 the Senate Indian Affairs Committee members these 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 Subcommittee Chair Bono Mack HERE, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton HERE & HERE, and the Commerce Committee HERE.
- Let's send a prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE, and let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

If you wish to do more today:

- Let's make and like pro-poker posts on the Facebook walls of Sen. Reid HERE, Sen. Kyl HERE, Rep. Boehner HERE, and Rep. Cantor HERE. There are new ones since we did this as part of yesterday's action plan.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc. to encourage others. Thanks for participating!

Done

Weekend of May 5th, 2012

In a piece in opposition to online poker,the Southern Baptist Convention said, The pro-gambling lobby, however, remains undeterred. As one example, the Poker Players Alliance spent $1.4 million last year lobbying Washington power brokers in support of Internet gambling initiatives such as Rep. Barton’s bill, the Roll Call newspaper reported. This alliance, along with multiplied other gambling special interest groups, shows no intention of stepping away from the table this year either.

Yep....the efforts of the poker community are being heard by the opposition. And, they are right about this! We players have no intentions of stepping away from the table, so let's keep telling lawmakers to support our rights:

- Let's send House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Chair Mary Bono Mack and the rest of the subcommittee tweets requesting a markup for HR 2366, the Online Poker Act: 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 the Senate Indian Affairs Committee members these 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 the Democratic Party Election Site HERE and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee HERE.
- Let's send a prefilled tweet promoting the weekend action plan HERE, and let's share the weekend action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

If you wish to do more this weekend:

- Let's make and like pro-poker posts on the Facebook walls of Sen. Reid HERE, Sen. Kyl HERE, Rep. Boehner HERE, and Rep. Cantor HERE. Let's also post and like pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Subcommittee Chair Bono Mack HERE, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton HERE & HERE, and the Commerce Committee HERE. There are new posts and comments to like since we did this as part of the past two action plans.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc. to encourage others. Thanks for participating!

Done

Done.

Monday, May 7, 2012

In a piece in opposition to online poker, the Southern Baptist Convention said:

The pro-gambling lobby, however, remains undeterred. As one example, the Poker Players Alliance spent $1.4 million last year lobbying Washington power brokers in support of Internet gambling initiatives such as Rep. Barton’s bill, the Roll Call newspaper reported. This alliance, along with multiplied other gambling special interest groups, shows no intention of stepping away from the table this year either.

Yep....the efforts of the poker community are being heard by the opposition. And, they are right about this! We players have no intentions of stepping away from the table, so let's keep telling lawmakers to support our rights:

- Let's send House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Chair Mary Bono Mack and the rest of the subcommittee tweets requesting a markup for HR 2366, the Online Poker Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. [Speed tip: Click these links with either your middle mouse button or CTRL + your left mouse button to open these in separate tabs. Or, use an add-on like Multi Links to do the same. Then, go tab-by-tab to knock them out.]
- 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.
- Let's keep posting and liking pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Senate Indian Affairs Committee members Sen. Barrasso HERE & HERE, Sen. Cantwell HERE, Sen. Hoeven HERE & HERE, Sen. Inouye HERE, and Sen. Murkowski HERE.
- Let's send a prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE, and let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

If you wish to do more today:

- Let's make and like pro-poker posts on the Facebook walls of Sen. Reid HERE, Sen. Kyl HERE, Rep. Boehner HERE, and Rep. Cantor HERE. Let's also post and like pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Subcommittee Chair Bono Mack HERE, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton HERE & HERE, the Democratic Party Election Site HERE, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee HERE & HERE, and the House Commerce Committee HERE. There are new posts and comments to like since we did these as part of recent action plans.

Done

Done.

Thanks OCD and Sheryl!

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Let's keep telling lawmakers to support our rights!

- Let's send prefilled, editable tweets to Democratic lawmakers: 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 some Congressmen in tough (or at least competitive) election fights this year: Rep. Charlie Bass HERE & HERE, Rep. Sean Duffy HERE, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick HERE, and Rep. Patrick Meehan HERE.
- Let's send a prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE, and let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

If you wish to do more today:

- Let's make and like pro-poker posts on the Facebook walls of Sen. Reid HERE, Sen. Kyl HERE, Rep. Boehner HERE, and Rep. Cantor HERE. Let's also post and like pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Subcommittee Chair Bono Mack HERE, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton HERE & HERE, the Democratic Party Election Site HERE, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee HERE & HERE, and the House Commerce Committee HERE. There are new posts and comments to like since we did these as part of recent action plans.

Done

Thanks OCD!

Done.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

There have been reports that NJ Gov. Chris Christie is considering opposing NJ's intrastate online poker bill. Let's all tell him he ought to support this important legislation!

- Let's sent Gov. Christie a prefilled, editable tweet in support of New Jersey's proposed legislation (S 1565). Simply click HERE. Let's reach out via Facebook HERE as well.

- Let's post and like pro-poker comments on the Facebook walls of some Congressmen in tough (or at least competitive) election fights this year: Rep. Judy Biggert HERE, Rep. Robert Dold HERE, Rep. Jim Renacci HERE, and Rep. Jon Runyan HERE.
- Let's send a prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE, and let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

If you wish to do more today:

- Let's make and like pro-poker posts on the Facebook walls of Sen. Reid HERE, Sen. Kyl HERE, Rep. Boehner HERE, and Rep. Cantor HERE. Let's also post and like pro-poker comments to the Facebook walls of Subcommittee Chair Bono Mack HERE, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton HERE & HERE, the Democratic Party Election Site HERE, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee HERE & HERE, Rep. Charlie Bass HERE & HERE, Rep. Sean Duffy HERE, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick HERE, and Rep. Patrick Meehan HERE, and the House Commerce Committee HERE. There are new posts and comments to like since we did these as part of recent action plans.

Please reply in this thread with tweeted, done, etc. to encourage others. Thanks for participating!