President-elect Obama has asked the American people for input. He wants us to tell him what we would like to see him do over the next four years. To facilitate this, his transition team set up an area of their website for input.

To tell President-elect Obama that you want your right to play online poker in a safe and legal environment respected and protected, please follow the simple instructions below.

Together, we can all let Obama know that we demand our rights!

1. Go to: http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/

2. Create an account if you do not already have one:


3. After you complete your account you will be redirected to the front page. You are now logged in. Do a search for "UIGEA"

or go to: http://snipurl.com/ppachange

4. Click the title "Boost America's Economy with Legal Online Poker"


5. Click the "Up Arrow" to vote and add a comment on the bottom of the page:


Forward your friends this email or send them this link: http://snipurl.com/ppavote

I did it!

Took me 45 seconds.

Bryan
Poker Players Alliance

Done! Thanks for all your work TheEngineer

 

Originally Posted by yeti sn0wman

Done! Thanks for all your work TheEngineer

Thanks!

Done! I hope everyone that reads this will take a moment or two to follow up and post some comments. It would certainly help us all to have another influx of poker players coming to the tables.

LD

 

Originally Posted by JustALurker

As soon as I got the PPA email I jumped right on this. Done. We need to show how numerous poker players truly are.

Nice job. Thanks to you and everyone else who did this.

 

Originally Posted by Skywolf

... take a moment or two to follow up and post some comments.

LD

I got a little passionate with my response. :) Thought I'd share:

Football, soccer, tennis, basketball, and all other sports are a balance of athleticism and skill, with a little bit of intellect thrown in to keep it interesting. They are all legal and the athletes get paid, and they also get performance incentives. Poker is a game of skill that is based primarily on intellect and multi-lateral thinking.

If online poker is kept illegal, then all sports/games should be made illegal.

Our government has shown that it will succumb to the pressure of interests outside our shores, which is why president Obama is planning to close the Guatanamo Bay detention facility and release 250+ terrorists to regroup with their associates who have already been freed from Gitmo and have rejoined the jihad against democracy. Do we really want to be the kind of country that lets everyone else tell us what we are going to do?

The UIGEA was an 11th hour addition to another bill that either no one had the guts to stand up to, or they were swayed by offshore interests such as other countrys' online poker sites, who stand to benefit immensely from the UIGEA. Removal of the UIGEA would allow American software companies to develop their own online poker sites, and join a growing global industry.

I fully support the rescinding of the UIGEA, but it would also be smart to allow credit card companies the right to choose whether or not to allow players to fund their accounts with normal credit cards. Check cards should still be allowed though, because we are entitled to spend the money we have earned in any way we choose! I've never seen a professional poker player sponsored by Visa/Amex/etc., so I'm pretty sure the credit card companies would not be willing to stake someone to play poker anyway.

I am sure there would be little effort for the US government in planning this transition, because Professional Poker Players (PPA) association members would be more than happy to spearhead the development of a plan to make it legal. I'm sure the PPA could obtain sponsors to fund the operation, considering the dozens of investors within the US who would immediately be interested in starting legal online US poker sites.

If you are going to play with us as our new president, you'd better have the NUTS to stand up for our rights!

 

Originally Posted by Dan

This is critical for everyone to do. Your voracitude has actually gotten poker to be one of the most talked about issues in the Citizen's Briefing Book. Keep up the good work!

Thanks! I'm glad we're all working together to stand up for our rights.

I don't know about obama or any other president, but for 5 years I've been saying the same thing "you can't get rid of it(poker). Legalize it, tax it, bring online poker to american soil. If the United states took 5 cents for every 3 dollars of rake that partypoker pulls out of 1 pot, we may very well have no national debt right now.".

<STRIKE>EDIT: I didn't see the 'sign up' area, or a link to it anywhere on any of the pages I visited. I did not sign up, and Im not sure if my vote counted nor could I comment. I tried on IE6 and firefox. Hope it worked. If anyone has a direct link to the sign up page please post it. </STRIKE>That would make more sense, thanks.

 

Originally Posted by SypsG

The opportunity to sign up, vote, and comment ended on Sunday.

TheEngineer, how'd it end up finishing?

We ended up 11th in voting and 2nd in total comments, which was outstanding IMO. I believe we'll get in the Citizens' Briefing Book.