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Outraged by the freezing of our funds??? I sure hope so! Let's take a stand and fight back.
OldBookGuy put together a nice action plan. Simply:
- Got to http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact to send a letter to Obama.
- Cut and paste the letter text below (editing to suit, of course).
- Click here to Twitter an announcement of this alert.
- Reply to the thread with "sent" "Twittered", etc to encourage others (you know
the drill).
Takes less than 60 seconds!
Also, please sign the PPA petition to Obama at www.pokerpetition.com.
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Dear President Obama,
It seems your White House has not taken the Government
Briefing Book very seriously.
The number one issue in Technology is Online Poker.
Politics and political support as we all know permeates
from the bottom up. So it is with issues. Though many pressing issues face you
and me, more often than not it is the little -- and, to most in Washington,
insignificant -- issues that personally affect the individual that matters
most.
This technology issue, online poker, is VERY important to
many Americans -- Americans who supported you and the Democratic Party, both
locally and nationally -- in the belief your administration would treat poker
players at least equally to those who play other online games such as Spades,
Hearts, Solitaire and dozens of other games who enjoy the right of privacy in
their own homes to play online games of skill both for real money and for
fun.
Last week, YOUR Department of Justice continued the Bush
era assault on poker players' privacy by freezing the personal funds of an
estimated TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND (24,000) American Citizens in the estimated
amount of THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS ($30,000,000) of your American Citizen
supporters' money.
However, given the current action, if this belief was
misplaced then support for Democratic candidates
AND your administration will likely suffer.
I
implore you to direct action be taken addressing this issue and treat me, a
poker player with respect and equality.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Skall, yes he did well on TV. TE thanks for the letter, I have also emailed President Obama and Ms. Kaptur of Ohio, even though Ohio is not much help. I even had time to write a letter and send it snail mail.
What does this mean about the Briefing Book, where online poker was the top technological issue? Was that just a farce? In any event, good luck in the fight! I will do anything I can to help.
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Dang, that was easy. Sent!!
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sent hope this does some good
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What does this mean about the Briefing Book, where online poker was the top technological issue? Was that just a farce? In any event, good luck in the fight! I will do anything I can to help.
The Briefing Book is real. It is comprised of issues for which visitors to Obama's www.change.gov site voted. Online gaming licensing and regulation did well, winding up first in the technology category and 11th overall.
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Well done everyone! I'm glad we're being heard.
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JJDude
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