Where is the PPA ??? The 10% Pledge

http://theppa.org/

Short and less than Muscular.

I will pledge 10% (2 months max) of my online funds to the PPA for a rapid resolution.

Caveat is that I will have to be able to transfer (xfer) my funds via the poker sites from my existing ISP, in the US.

I pledge that 10% for only 2 months, for each month beyond that it drops 1%. So if this drags on, the pledge will expire and die by Feb of next year.

Starting date is black Friday 4-15-2001.

I suppose it wouldn't hurt, but I never thought of the PPA as lacking in money.

I wouldn't expect a rapid resolution on this regardless of whether everyone pledged 50% of their online funds. The fact is these guys have been indicted and it will probably be up to a year before they actually go on trial. Even if they are exonerated the sites might not be so quick to flip the switch back on for us because there is still the prospect of it being regulated at some point in the future.

Congress barely just kept the government from shutting down, does anyone really think pouring money into the PPA is going to get those guys to do anything quickly? Even if they could help get a bill through, how long would it take? Probaby 6 months at best. Then the government still wouldn't give a license to PS, FT, AP because these guys wouldn't have been tried yet. So you'd be looking at some other site getting the license and whatever time it took them to get running.

I think no matter which way you slice it, it's going to be a year at best either way.

I'm less than impressed with PPA results to date. While they mean well and work hard, the only result I've seen from their actions is the blocking of my state by Stars and Tilt months earlier than it happened to the rest of the country.

I hope there's reason for my opinion to change in the future.

We would all like to see alot more done from the PPA,and the PPA needs money and voters.to stand with them....so do what ever you can to help our right to play online poker.
One thing we all can do is,go to the PPA website and email our elected officials.You can do in in 5 minutes right here at this link below

http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/home/

.ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P{padding:0px;}.ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage{font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;}I believe we should examine how we go about changing
the landscape. The PPA is fine, but in the real world of
politics things rarely change from the top down. Thus more
political movements effect change from the local level up as
opposed to the national level down. Too many traditional
politicians think "inside" the beltway. Once you achieve a
goal the DC lobbying of a PPA type association is good for
maintaining presence, and monitoring legislation and
regulations. However, such DC organizations rarely effect
major change.

The Tea Party folks generated change by intense local
activities that generated national attention. Of course their
movement was helped by our nation's polarized political
climate and a general concern about the condition of the
economy coupled with a very proactive 24/7 news industry.

So, how do we attack locally? We begin by indentifying potential
supporters that can help deliver our message. We must remember
that the masses may or may not know anything about online
poker. Worse, they likely do not care. For example, outside of our
poker community Friday's events really occupied one day of
press attention. Whatever follows is likely to be minor. Generally
speaking my guess is that the reaction of the masses is likely
to be "a bunch of crooks cheated a gang of gamblers".

Now supporters that are main stream, non poker playing, citizens
will have a broader and more receptive audience.

For example, your recent activities involved an event that
assisted Special Olympics. Believe me, a call from the Special
Olympics Chairperson has more impact than a call from you, me, or
Martin. This sort of thing can be repeated in hundreds of
communities.

The Chambers of Commerce should be approached. There are
some serious "freedom" issues, and common sense business
issues involved in all of this.

We must determine a way to approach major E commerce
companies. They have a vested interest in having some sort
of check on DOJ activities.

We must point out the obvious. Other "scams" did not cause
the DOJ to punish the victims. Ergo the Enron mess did not
motivate the government to turn off everyone's utilities.

Poker has been embraced by a gaggle of celebrities. They
should be mobilized. I doubt that you or I can get on the
Conan show but, Jennifer Tilley can.

At the same time there needs to be activity that targets
politicians a la the Tea Party "We are going to throw you
out of office" message. Remember Palin's "target" list?
It worked, they got a lot of them, and "scared" triple that
number.

You know there is a long history of working professionals
being harmed because they failed to understand how politics
works, combined with being too busy to learn how, and then
work on it.

The horrible truth is that political change is fueled by fear.
One political sage is credited with an alleged Lyndon B.
Johnson axiom that stated, "The strength of your political
friends is based on how they see you treat your enemies."

That is it for now. I believe we can do a lot. However,
I also believe that we have less than 30 days to channel
the anger, and marshall an attack. Do you recall the
so called five stages of death; Denial, Anger, Bargaining,
Depression and Acceptance? In our case "denial" cannot
last very long. Clearly bargaining has not been productive.
Thus our only momentum can come from using anger as
a fuel.