White House Petition

LastLife · Sep 22, 2011

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitio...icensing-and-regulating-online-poker/KZ2KB7c1
Need 5000 signatures for a response from the White House.

Debi · Sep 22, 2011

That link does not work.

TAC91 · Sep 22, 2011

dakota-xx said:
That link does not work.

It worked for me. I signed it as well.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitio...icensing-and-regulating-online-poker/KZ2KB7c1

Debi · Sep 22, 2011

There is a message on the site now saying they are currently undergoing maintenance.

LastLife · Sep 22, 2011

Site is really buggy, keep trying.
Might want to try this link if other doesn't work. http://wh.gov/g0i

TAC91 · Sep 22, 2011

Dang. I'm getting the same thing right now so yeah it's under maintenance to who ever is trying to get on there. ^^^^page not found

Just try it later, I guess, when it comes back.

Charade You Are · Sep 22, 2011

We need 5000 sigs, have only 842 so far.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitio...icensing-and-regulating-online-poker/KZ2KB7c1

You have to sign up with your info and email and validate your email, then you can sign the petition. Site is a bit slow. But it just came up today, so bound to have growing pains.

ckickenking · Sep 22, 2011

Site is currently active. Better hurry before it goes haywire again

MidyMat · Sep 22, 2011

Sign a petition over the internet?........sounds like it could be abused real easy

darkassassin89 · Sep 22, 2011

Signed

facebooked this AND twittered this, hope this will help get online poker safer.

Charade You Are · Sep 22, 2011

"Legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol" has already reached it's goal the first day. Hope poker players are as pro-active.

If a petition gets 5,000 signatures within 30 days, it will go into a queue for the Administration to review and respond. We will do our best to respond to petitions that meet this threshold in a timely manner, but it may take a few weeks to issue an official response. All responses will be posted in this section of the We the People platform, and if you signed a petition that we respond to, you'll get an email from the White House to with the response.

hellomartin2007 · Sep 23, 2011

Call an Investigation into Allegations of Prosecutorial & Judicial Misconduct

Please Go To:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitio...ial-misconduct-case-sholom-rubashkin/tj7Fx42T

And Sign

We petition the obama administration to:
Call an Investigation into Allegations of Prosecutorial & Judicial Misconduct in the Case of Sholom Rubashkin

JamesDaBear · Sep 23, 2011

It might give you error messages, but keep trying. It will eventually work for you.

http://wh.gov/g0i

alaskabill · Sep 23, 2011

Everyone should definitely take the time to do this. I am skeptical of 99% of internet petitions but this one is pretty much guaranteed to get seen by the people in power.

As much as I and most of us distrust the political figures, we have to try and make our voices heard.

Samango · Sep 23, 2011

"U.S. regulation of this global industry"

Really? It may come as surprise, but in the rest of the world people may not always see the US as our natural leaders.
It seems that most of the online poker problems we've had to deal with have been caused by the US position.

If this does if this go through and online poker is legitimized, maybe the US market is big enough to force the existing sites to comply with your rules, but remember, many online poker sites had already decided the US was too difficult to handle even before BF.
Isn't there a danger that you may find your self playing to your rules on US only, government controlled sites

Charade You Are · Sep 23, 2011

Samango said:
"U.S. regulation of this global industry"

Really? It may come as surprise, but in the rest of the world people may not always see the US as our natural leaders.
It seems that most of the online poker problems we've had to deal with have been caused by the US position.

If this does if this go through and online poker is legitimized, maybe the US market is big enough to force the existing sites to comply with your rules, but remember, many online poker sites had already decided the US was too difficult to handle even before BF.
Isn't there a danger that you may find your self playing to your rules on US only, government controlled sites

You are mis-reading that. It is requesting regulation for poker in the U.S., and simply stating that poker is a global industry. Not global regulation.

Difficult because of the UIGEA which was passed in 2006--that's when entities like Party left the US market. BF was a result of the UIGEA.

Samango · Sep 23, 2011

Charade You Are said:
You are mis-reading that. It is requesting regulation for poker in the U.S., and simply stating that poker is a global industry. Not global regulation.

Difficult because of the UIGEA which was passed in 2006--that's when entities like Party left the US market. BF was a result of the UIGEA.

Oh sorry, my bad

lines like this misled me

"Appropriate regulation of online poker will put the U.S. in charge of safeguarding responsible adult players, prevent underage participation and protect those with excessive gaming habits"

the bolded part seems unnecessary and could have been omitted if it wasn't intended

np , good luck with it

JamesDaBear · Sep 24, 2011

Samango said:
Oh sorry, my bad
lines like this misled me

"Appropriate regulation of online poker will put the U.S. in charge of safeguarding responsible adult players, prevent underage participation and protect those with excessive gaming habits"

the bolded part seems unnecessary and could have been omitted if it wasn't intended

np , good luck with it

The rest of the world certainly isn't helping us out. How many global poker sites have US players just been shut out of?

The U.S. does need to get in charge of safeguarding responsible adult players... as it pertains to U.S. players. "The world" hasn't helped us one bit. We need our U.S. government... all the way up to the White House... fighting for our rights, not against them. That is what this petition is all about.

JamesDaBear · Sep 24, 2011

Samango said:
"U.S. regulation of this global industry"

Really? It may come as surprise, but in the rest of the world people may not always see the US as our natural leaders.
It seems that most of the online poker problems we've had to deal with have been caused by the US position.

If this does if this go through and online poker is legitimized, maybe the US market is big enough to force the existing sites to comply with your rules, but remember, many online poker sites had already decided the US was too difficult to handle even before BF.
Isn't there a danger that you may find your self playing to your rules on US only, government controlled sites

Better than not playing at all.

alaskabill · Sep 24, 2011

JamesDaBear said:
Better than not playing at all.

This.

In a perfect world I would like the situation that existed before 2006. However, at this point I will take playing Ceasar's.com or whatever.

I want to be able to withdraw 100 bucks on Friday and have it in my account take my wife out to dinner on a Saturday. No, 2 month delays and weird checks.

I want to tell people I play online poker and not have to give a 5 minute explanation about legalities, grey areas and Black Friday.

I would like to know that if a site collapses with my money on it I will have recourse through the legal system.

I will accept govt. oversight in exchange for a normalized playing environment.

Poker Orifice · Sep 24, 2011

JamesDaBear said:
The rest of the world certainly isn't helping us out. How many global poker sites have US players just been shut out of?

.

Wake up!!!! Why do you think global poker sites are shutting you out?

Charade You Are · Sep 24, 2011

alaskabill said:
This.

In a perfect world I would like the situation that existed before 2006.

The good old days. Moving money around with Neteller, playing any site, easy deposits and withdrawals. Hard to believe it all went to hell thanks to Frist and Kyl and their moronic hypocritical bs.

We are getting there:

BigJamo · Sep 25, 2011

I tried too help out. Wouldnt let me

LastLife · Sep 27, 2011

Thanks to all who voted. We are over 6k now. Even though we have hit our mark, we should continue to spread this petition to get as many as possible.

darkassassin89 · Sep 27, 2011

Nice 6k is good to know about! Thank God for facebook and twitter

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