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The new PPA prefilled letter is out and ready to send. It takes
just 60 seconds to send, so please take a moment to let Congress know
you want your rights. Click here to send the letter.
You can Twitter a quick message asking others to write in only ten seconds! I wrote a prepopulated message. Click here to send the Tweet. Finally, you can help support the guys who support us! Send a Tweet recommending P5s. Click here to send the Tweet. Thanks! ---------------------------- Here's the letter: Co-sponsor and Support H.R. 2267, The Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act
I
am a constituent, voter, and poker player asking for your support.
Specifically, I ask that you co-sponsor and support H.R. 2267, the
Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act.
I also ask that you support legislation that clearly exempts games of
skill like poker from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of
2006 (UIGEA).
H.R. 2267 provides for sensible regulation of
Internet gaming and puts the U.S. in charge of safeguarding its
citizens. H.R. 2267 mandates rigorous safeguards against underage
participation and protections for those with excessive gaming habits
while providing consumer protections for the millions of Americans who
play online poker every day. This bill will also allow American gaming
companies to participate in the world's Internet gaming market,
bringing needed jobs to America. Internet censorship and an
unenforceable, unpopular prohibition provide none of these benefits.
All censorship and prohibition can do is drive players underground or
overseas while limiting my personal freedom.
Separately,
something must be done to clarify the UIGEA. Our nation's financial
institutions have repeatedly warned that UIGEA is overly broad, and
that the lack of definition in the law could result in the disruption
of lawful financial transactions. Indeed, with regulators, legislators
and financial institutions all warning that UIGEA is unenforceable, and
with the need for banks to focus on our economic recovery. Banks must
fully comply with this burdensome law by December 1, 2009. Please act
immediately to reform the UIGEA and exempt peer-to-peer games of skill
like poker from its enforcement.
Poker is a proud American
tradition and our nation's citizens have enjoyed poker for more than
150 years. It is an honorable game that I am proud to play. The simple
fact that I choose to play it on the Internet does not make it unlawful.
What's
most important to me is your support for my rights. Please respond to
this letter and let me know you will support my freedoms. I will be
watching your actions on this issue closely. I hope that I, along with
my over one million fellow Poker Players Alliance members, can count on
your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Hopefully this is my last trip to the library to Digg during lunch (my employer filters things like this, and I'm waiting for the new iPhone to get restocked so I can do this remotely). However,this is a big article in Politico and I wanted to do my best to push it forward. So, please Digg and Twitter. Thanks!
Read/Digg: http://digg.com/d1uWzx
Direct Digg: http://digg.com/politics/Politico_Support_grows_for_online_poker_legislation
Twitter (cut and paste the following): RT TheEngineer2008: 'Politico: Support grows for online #poker legislation' Read/#Digg: http://digg.com/d1uWzx #nation #c4l PLZ RT
Politico: Support grows for gambling law change
Rep. Barney Frank sees the odds improving for repealing a long-sought Internet gambling ban. The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee believes the recent seizure of millions of dollars in online poker receipts only strengthens his hand because it reminds voters and politicians how sweeping — and potentially unclear — the existing law is.
“It helps,” Frank said after the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York seized, or froze, $34 million in bank accounts belonging to 27,000 online poker players.
The eloquently acerbic Massachusetts Democrat will spend the bulk of this year helping the Obama administration reregulate Wall Street in response to last fall’s financial collapse. But he also wants another crack at rewriting the ban on Internet gambling.
Even his Republican counterpart, who led a charge last year to defeat legislation gutting the law, believes Frank is holding much better cards in the current Congress than he had in the last one.
“It’s going to be an uphill battle to stop it this time,” said Alabama Rep. Spencer Bachus, the ranking Republican on the Financial Services Committee and a longtime gambling opponent who calls the pastime the nation’s “fastest-growing addiction.”
“We caught them off guard last time,” he said. “This time, they won’t be off guard.”
The question is how far Frank wants to go in rewriting the current law. Banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions he oversees are asking Congress for more clarity in how to police the current ban, since they bear the onus for blocking payments to gambling websites overseas.
Frank, though, introduced legislation last month that goes much further. It would create a licensing and regulatory framework that would allow Americans to play poker and place other bets on government-approved websites — an ambitious proposal that could eventually generate billions of dollars in much-needed revenues for states or the federal government.
Whatever path he pursues, any rewrite faces stiff resistance in the Senate from Jon Kyl, the Arizona Republican who worked for years to enact the current law....
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If you haven't yet, please help out with a digg and a tweet. Thanks!
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Check out Andy Bloch's Tweet:
@Andy_Bloch: Meant to say
I beat @ppapoker & @TheEngineer2008 to the tweet! RT "Support grows for
gambling law change" http://bit.ly/1LUy9
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Great news. The new PPA letter is up and running. Please send, of course. Also, let's Digg and Twitter to get new eyes on this. I believe we can get non-poker playing libertarians to help out here via hearing about it on the social networks.
Thanks!
Send/Digg: http://digg.com/d1ujyC
Twitter (cut and paste the following): RT @TheEngineer2008: PPA Flooding Congress w/ Letters Demanding #Poker Rights! PLZ Send/#Digg the NEW letter:http://digg.com/d1ujyC #nation.
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sent. thanks for all the hard work TE
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sent. thanks for all the hard work TE
thanks for the compliment and for sending the letter.
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WiCane
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wvu138
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Sent. We can not send enough letters, emails, etc.
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sent and about to be on twitter
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Sent. That was really easy. Keep up the good work sir.
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