Fight for Poker Rights Daily Action Plan - Do Your Part!

Tues/Wed done.

Tweeted and both letters sent.

Thanks GJS and Ringworm!

THURSDAY POKER ACTION: Let's tell Rep. Issa & Sen. Feinstein to back poker

**** Thursday #Fight4Poker ****

• Let’s tweet & favorite pro-poker messages in reply to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). Either write your own reply (best) or copy & paste one of the following examples (but try to edit even these a bit):
- Please oppose HR 707, a bill that strips states of their #TenthAmendment right to authorize online poker.
- For consumer protection, mandated age verification & liberty, please support the right of states to authorize online poker.
- Congress rejected instate online poker bans in '06. HR 707 restores nothing. It's a new ban. Please oppose HR 707.
- Licensed online poker provides tools for law enforcement, mandated age verification & liberty. Please support.
⇒ https://twitter.com/DarrellIssa/status/568163415409209344

• Let's keep making & liking pro-poker comments on CA Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Facebook page. This can be as simple as posting, “Please reconsider your support for efforts to strip California of the right to decide the online poker issue for itself. Thank you,” “I agree. Online poker should be authorized, not banned,” etc.:
⇒ www.facebook.com/SenatorFeinstein/posts/859125860777253

• Please tweet, share & favorite today's action plan, and please reply here with "done", "tweeted," "posted," etc. to encourage others:
⇒ Twitter: http://spredd.it/MfcdDsIS
⇒ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PokerDailyActionPlan/posts/829749273737531

Thanks for participating!

Hope everyone is checking this thread as often as possible to see what you can do to help!

Thurs done

Thanks GJS, and thanks Dakota for reminding everyone to take action!

FRIDAY POKER ACTION: Let's encourage media coverage of the effort to ban online poker

**** Friday #Fight4Poker ****

• With the recent anti-RAWA article in Mother Jones, let’s tweet & favorite pro-poker messages to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes, encouraging them to discuss issues like crony capitalism, personal liberty, consumer protection, and hypocrisy on the Tenth Amendment regarding HR 707/RAWA on their respective shows:
⇒ https://twitter.com/maddow/status/568511645925785601
⇒ https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/568524438632665088
⇒ https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/568217585214496768

• Let's make & like pro-poker comments on the Mother Jones article mentioned above:
⇒ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/sheldon-adelson-was-online-gambling-he-was-against-it53

• Please tweet, share & favorite today's action plan, and please reply here with "done", "tweeted," "posted," etc. to encourage others:
⇒ Twitter: http://spredd.it/0cQre4Yn
⇒ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PokerDailyActionPlan/posts/830157043696754

Thanks for participating!

Done

Thanks GJS!

FRIDAY POKER ACTION: EXTRA!

**** Friday ‪#‎Fight4Poker‬ Extra ****

• Let's make & like pro-poker comments on anti-poker Rep. Jason Chaffetz's Facebook page. This can be as simple as posting, “Please oppose efforts to strip states of their right to authorize online poker. Thank you,” “I agree. We should authorize online poker, not ban it,” etc.:
⇒ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155149140560234&id=212373730233

WEEKEND POKER ACTION: Tell anti-poker Rep. Jason Chaffetz & 7 others to back poker

**** Weekend ‪#‎Fight4Poker‬ ****
• Let's send prefilled, fully editable tweets to seven 2014 RAWA House cosponsors to thank them for not cosponsoring it this year:
⇒ Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]: http://spredd.it/swf1SXeo
⇒ Rep. Louie Gohmert [R-TX]: http://spredd.it/Uf9Jbfdd
⇒ Rep. Trey Gowdy [R-SC]: http://spredd.it/9Z1T78c2
⇒ Rep. Jim Jordan [R-OH]: http://spredd.it/bCm5cbca
⇒ Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]: http://spredd.it/m7h7kwoU
⇒ Rep. Pedro Pierluisi [D-Puerto Rico]: http://spredd.it/yt9JdR9a
⇒ Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]: http://spredd.it/704p4l94
• Let's make & like pro-poker comments on anti-poker Rep. Jason Chaffetz's (R-UT) Facebook page. This can be as simple as posting, “Please reconsider your efforts to strip states of their Tenth Amendment right to authorize online poker.”, “I agree. We should authorize online poker, not ban it,” etc.:
⇒ www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155149140560234&id=212373730233
• Please tweet, share & favorite today's action plan, and please reply here with "done", "tweeted," "posted," etc. to encourage others:
⇒ Twitter: http://spredd.it/pe1W3Sd2
⇒ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PokerDailyActionPlan/posts/830523786993413
Thanks for participating!

Done

Thanks GJS!

MONDAY POKER ACTION: Tell anti-poker Rep. Jason Chaffetz & 5 others to back poker

**** Monday #Fight4Poker ****

• Let’s tweet members of the House Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee, either with the prefilled verbiage as-is or individualized via a quick edit. Verbiage can be as simple as copying & pasting one of the following examples, but try to edit even these a bit:. They are holding a hearing on HR 707 on March 5th and need to hear from us!
- Please oppose HR 707, a bill that strips states of their #TenthAmendment right to authorize online poker.
- For consumer protection, mandated age verification & liberty, please support the right of states to authorize online poker.
- Congress rejected instate online poker bans in '06. HR 707 restores nothing. It's a new ban. Please oppose HR 707.
⇒ Rep. Mike Bishop [R-MI]: http://spredd.it/QnBwme2a
⇒ Rep. Ken Buck [R-CO]: http://spredd.it/4r57bfO8
⇒ Rep. Steve Chabot [R-OH]: http://spredd.it/b1o5uUPy
⇒ Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]: http://spredd.it/J3f3W61A
⇒ Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA]: http://spredd.it/5hai40o5

• Let's keep making & liking pro-poker comments on anti-poker Rep. Jason Chaffetz's (R-UT) Facebook page. This can be as simple as posting, “Please reconsider your efforts to strip states of their Tenth Amendment right to authorize online poker.”, “I agree. We should authorize online poker, not ban it,” etc.:
⇒ www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155149140560234&id=212373730233

• Please tweet, share & favorite today's action plan, and please reply here with "done", "tweeted," "posted," etc. to encourage others:
⇒ Twitter: http://spredd.it/09gcCcFK
⇒ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PokerDailyActionPlan/posts/831415163570942

Thanks for participating!

Monday done.

Thanks GJS!

TUESDAY POKER ACTION: Let's tell Rep. Raul Labrador & 6 others to back poker

**** Tuesday #Fight4Poker ****

• Let’s tweet members of the House Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee, either with the prefilled verbiage as-is or individualized via a quick edit. Verbiage can be as simple as copying & pasting one of the following examples, but try to edit even these a bit:. They are holding a hearing on HR 707 on March 5th and need to hear from us!
- Please oppose HR 707, a bill that strips states of their #TenthAmendment right to authorize online poker.
- For consumer protection, mandated age verification & liberty, please support the right of states to authorize online poker.
- Congress rejected instate online poker bans in '06. HR 707 restores nothing. It's a new ban. Please oppose HR 707.
⇒ Rep. Louie Gohmert [R-TX]: http://spredd.it/7FNU1dbe
⇒ Rep. Trey Gowdy [R-SC]: http://spredd.it/I5u5bei9
⇒ Rep. Raul Labrador [R-ID]: http://spredd.it/fsUEwgkC
⇒ Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]: http://spredd.it/1082Bs5f
⇒ Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]: http://spredd.it/uriVU692

• Let's make & like pro-poker comments on lawmaker Facebook page. This can be as simple as posting, “Please reconsider your efforts to strip states of their Tenth Amendment right to authorize online poker.”, “I agree. We should authorize online poker, not ban it,” etc.:
⇒ Rep. Raul Labrador [R-ID]: www.facebook.com/raul.r.labrador/posts/932721863428061
⇒ Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]: www.facebook.com/RepRichmond/photos/a.278663322164454.77921.197737020257085/931294526901327

• Please tweet, share & favorite today's action plan, and please reply here with "done", "tweeted," "posted," etc. to encourage others:
⇒ Twitter: http://spredd.it/egRF774k
⇒ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PokerDailyActionPlan/posts/831960003516458

Thanks for participating!

Tues done

My congressman wrote back to me

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Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to regulations that restrict Internet gambling. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue, and I agree with your comments: instead of implementing knee-jerk bans on online poker and other games, we should embrace the Internet gambling industry as a way to create jobs and reduce the deficit.

In 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in an attempt to prevent Americans from gambling online. While the bill left intact the ability of individual states to license some types of online gaming companies, it calls for the enforcement of a number of federal regulations that prohibit Americans from engaging in most forms of online gambling. As a result, there are virtually no e-casinos operating in the United States.

For good reason, these restrictive policies have been roundly criticized by financial institutions, small businesses, and frustrated citizens. I believe that UIGEA overreaches the goal of public safety and has instead prevented law-abiding Americans from participating in legitimate activities in which the federal government has no business intruding. Online gambling restrictions also set a precedent that may threaten our competitive advantage in using the Internet as a marketplace over the long term. According to a 2012 report by Morgan Stanley, Internet gambling has the potential to become a $9.3-billion-per-year industry for the United States - approximately the economic output of the Las Vegas and Atlantic City gaming markets combined.

Like you, I believe the government should avoid policies that impede Americans' ability to engage in legitimate commerce and instead embrace the Internet as a powerful economic engine. Please be assured I will continue to advocate for the repeal of online gambling restrictions that inhibit economic growth, and I will keep your thoughts in mind if H.R. 707, or similarly restrictive bills, come to the floor for a vote.

Thank you again for your input in this matter, and I hope my letter addresses your specific concerns. If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to call me at (303) 484-9596 or visit my website, https://polis.house.gov, and sign up to receive my e-newsletter.


Sincerely,
(signed)Jared Polis
Representative

Thanks GJS and Ringworm. Great response from Rep. Polis, who's been a great supporter of our right to play.

WEDNESDAY POKER ACTION: Let's tell Rep. Raul Labrador & 7 others to back poker

**** Wednesday #Fight4Poker ****

• Let’s tweet members of the House Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee, either with the prefilled verbiage as-is or individualized via a quick edit. Verbiage can be as simple as copying & pasting one of the following examples, but try to edit even these a bit:. They are holding a hearing on HR 707 on March 5th and need to hear from us!
- Please oppose HR 707, a bill that shuts down state-authorized poker websites. Thank you. #InternetFreedom
- For consumer protection, mandated age verification & personal liberty, please support state-licensed poker websites.
- Congress rejected instate online poker bans in '06. HR 707 restores nothing. It's a new ban. Please oppose HR 707.
⇒ Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]: http://spredd.it/rhm2e9Ue
⇒ Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]: http://spredd.it/bbIw7c8c
⇒ Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]: http://spredd.it/zOS30BI3
⇒ Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee [D-TX]: http://spredd.it/ryp0cPUJ
⇒ Rep. Pedro Pierluisi [D-Puerto Rico]: http://spredd.it/5n3B057V
⇒ Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]: http://spredd.it/W9TRQGAs

• Let's keep making & liking pro-poker comments on lawmaker Facebook page. This can be as simple as posting, “Please reconsider your efforts to strip states of their Tenth Amendment right to authorize online poker.”, “I agree. We should authorize online poker, not ban it,” etc.:
⇒ Rep. Raul Labrador [R-ID]: www.facebook.com/raul.r.labrador/posts/932721863428061
⇒ Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]: www.facebook.com/RepRichmond/photos/a.278663322164454.77921.197737020257085/931294526901327

• Please tweet, share & favorite today's action plan, and please reply here with "done", "tweeted," "posted," etc. to encourage others:
⇒ Twitter: http://spredd.it/8LFEXsfI
⇒ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PokerDailyActionPlan/posts/832373023475156

Thanks for participating!

Very nice response from your Rep, Ringworm!

Wed done.

I contacted both of my Senators here in Maine regarding recent poker ban legislation. Senator Collins' office said that she didn't have a firm position on internet poker, which I thought was a positive. It's important to distinguish poker from sports betting or casino games; the latter will be tougher sells to gambling opponents.

Thanks GJS and Braveboat! Great work reaching out to your senators BB!