President Obama hosts Twitter Townhall

From the PPA today:


The White House announced through its official Twitter account, @whitehouse, that it will host its first ever Twitter town hall on Wednesday, July 6 at 2PM ET in the East Room of the White House. Twitter co-founder and Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey will moderate a conversation between President Obama and Americans across the country about the economy and jobs.

Starting today, PPA twitter users can submit a prepopulated question asking the President if he supports licensing and regulating online poker by clicking here. Or you can submit your own poker question to President Obama by clicking here and please don’t forget to use the hash tags #poker #askobama.

Oh sure, I can just see the president taking time to be on twitter. And every interest group in the country will be bombarding with questions.
But we may as join em

Dwan tried when it was a facebook townhall and was ignored.

Worth another try I guess.

Bumpimg this up for those who tweet (I don't)--starts in just 25 minutes.

I tried, but guess I got over look

Well Dreams, you weren't alone. This, today, from the PPA (my emphasis in bold):

"Wednesday, July 6, 2011 marked the first ever White House-Twitter town hall in which the President answered questions in real time from Twitter users across the country. The Issues discussed ranged from the state of the economy and reducing unemployment levels to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the President ignored the thousands of Tweets from PPA members asking him if he supports the licensing and regulation of online poker. We believe Mr. Obama could have clarified his stance on our issue in 140 characters or less and, by not doing so, he missed a great opportunity to solidify his poker constituents."

Your best bet would be to contact your congressmen or congresswoman, and urge them to pass H.R. 1174. I received a response to an e-mail that I sent to my Senator from Florida that mentioned it is presently being reviewed by the House Financial Service Commitee. They are the people right now that are responsible for recommending passage of this bill. You can go to the PPA website and send a letter to your lawmaker. If you haven't done that already, then you should.
I doubt very much that President Obama is very much interested in the bill at this time, because it is still stuck in the House of representatives. There is very little he can do about it anyways, since he is not a lawmaker .