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

Hi everyone. I've been posting a daily action plan on a couple of poker forums for the past few years and am pleased to start a thread here at Cardschat!

I hope everyone will consider participating in this each day, as it is an easy way for us to magnify our individual voices. These items take just seconds to complete, so we can all do these quite quickly and painlessly. Thanks!

With the groups that pushed for UIGEA seeking a federal ban on online poker and other online gaming (their letter to Congress is HERE), we ALL need to stand up and tell our lawmakers that we want them to support poker. Our opponents are pressing Congress for action, so our elected representatives need our letters in front of them:

1. Let's snail mail the prewritten, fully editable PPA member letter to Congress and the White House HERE and to state lawmakers HERE (or click the buttons below). This takes just a few minutes (especially if you use your printer to print the envelopes). It's very important that our elected representatives know we demand our right to play, so let's all print, sign, and mail these out now. As they will take one month to get delivered, they will not clash with the emails we sent yesterday:
   
   
   
   
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2. Let's send Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senator Jon Kyl, House Speaker John Boehner, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor prefilled, editable, pro-poker tweets. Simply click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
3. Let's send a prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE, and let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

If you wish to do more today:

• Let's send prefilled, editable tweets to Democratic lawmakers: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others. Thanks for participating!

Both letters sent!

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Glad to see you here, Rich.

Thanks for all the work you do in the fight for poker rights.

Tweeted and sent.

(if you all open each link in a new tab, then just go to each tab, hit tweet and close the tab, it takes no time at all.)

Thank you for doing this.

I have also went ahead and sent both letters!

Tweets tweeted and letters going out tomorrow.

ditto!

Here's hoping this becomes the most active thread on the forum (even giving the 'rigged' thread a good go).

Letters sent, tweets tweeted and hopefully someone is listening.

Sent both, will get the rest later.

Thanks everyone for the great welcome and for participating in the action thread!

With the groups that pushed for UIGEA seeking a federal ban on online poker and other online gaming (their letter to Congress is HERE), we ALL need to stand up and tell our lawmakers that we want them to support poker. Our opponents are pressing Congress for action, so our elected representatives need our letters in front of them:

1. Let's send Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senator Jon Kyl, House Speaker John Boehner, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor prefilled, editable tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. Ensure that they know their time to act is running out, as states won't wait around forever.
2. Let's make and like pro-poker posts on the Facebook walls of Sen. Reid HERE, Rep. Boehner HERE, and Rep. Cantor HERE.
3. Let's send a prefilled tweet promoting today's action plan HERE, and let's share today's action on our own Facebook walls HERE.

Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others. Thanks for participating!

It's great to have you. I'll be looking forward to this thread daily.

& done!

Excellent! I thank you for that and am very happy to have you on for the action plan.

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Sent. I am a US citizen but live in Germany. The letters require a US address as well as a US telephone. I used my sisters.

Any tips on how, as a US citizen NOT residing in the US, I can still be active in a less shady (i.e. using an address and phone that is not actually mine) but still effective way?

And can non US players get involved in any way?

Done. Glad to see you here Rich. I've been falling down on the job on the action plan lately but I spend a lot more time on this site than 2+2 so seeing you here will remind me to get my butt in gear.

Done. And don't forget to "like" the pro poker posts!

Great iniative... I'm in

Thanks Alaskabill and Mandy!

Thanks for the support! I appreciate your participation, despite not being a US resident.

One effective way to participate this via the Facebook and Twitter action items. Social networking is excellent because it is worldwide.

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With the groups that pushed for UIGEA seeking a federal ban on online poker and other online gaming (their letter to Congress is HERE), * we ALL need to stand up and tell our lawmakers that we want them to * support poker. Our opponents are pressing Congress for action, so our * elected representatives need our letters in front of them:

1. Let's send House Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing, and *Trade Chair Mary Bono Mack and the rest of the subcommittee tweets *requesting a markup for HR 2366, the Online Poker Act: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
2. Let's keep making and liking pro-poker posts on the Facebook walls of Sen. Reid HERE, Rep. Boehner HERE, and Rep. Cantor HERE. There are new posts since yesterday's action.

Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others. Thanks for participating

I have looked at some links in your newest post. I searched some poker posts and "liked" But I am a FB and Twitter illiterate. (Yea, I am very old school..lol)

So if anyone here can post links to the best post and places where we can "like" that would make it easier for the "challenged" such as myself. I dont even know how twitter works..... I guess just make an account, but never even looked.....

In the links above, I am guessing the Micheal Bandy post is the one to like?

Tweeted ..a lot LOL

Twitter is easy - google it, create an account and if you can't figure it out let me know and I will help you.

Good luck to you all with this, I am in the UK so cant help but I wish you all the best, hope things work out in the end and the US government see sense

This is how I do it.

Once you have your facebook and twitter accounts, log on to both.

I open Rich's post in a new window.

Right click on each link and open in new tab.

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Now you can click on each tab, and click "tweet". Everything is filled in for you.

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Once it's posted you can close tab and next one is there. If you get a message that you already tweeted it, it means you just opened the same link twice. Close and go on to the next.

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I didn't see the post you referred to but for facebook I do the same as for twitter. Open each in a new tab. Scroll down to bottom, then I "like" each pro poker post (scrolling up if necessary). Then I post my comment.

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Hope this helps.

Great tutorial! Thanks for posting that.

Another way to speed up the tweets is to use CTRL-W to close the tab after sending. That way, your cursor will be over the 'tweet' button when the next tab opens.

Thanks CYA :-)

I will get on it!

Spreading the word http://www.facebook.com/CardsChat

With the groups that pushed for UIGEA seeking a federal ban on online poker and other online gaming (their letter to Congress is HERE), we ALL need to stand up and tell our lawmakers that we want them to support poker. Our opponents are pressing Congress for action, so our elected representatives need our letters in front of them:

1. Let's send the Senate Indian Affairs Committee members these tweets: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
2. Let's post and like pro-poker comments to the House Commerce Committee Facebook wall HERE.
3. Let's keep making and liking pro-poker posts on the Facebook walls of Sen. Reid HERE, Rep. Boehner HERE, and Rep. Cantor HERE. There are new posts since yesterday's action.

Please reply in this thread with "tweeted", "done", etc. to encourage others. Thanks for participating!

Done.

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Thanks-that works great!

Done for Friday.

Thanks for pushing this, Charade You Are... We gotta keep up the fight!