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[memphis57]

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Anyone else have a problem with the fact that this is really just party using players to funnel money to a lobbying group that it otherwise would probably not be able to legally give money to? I'm all about a lobbying group for poker players, but not one that is just a pawn for the giant online poker rooms. And especially not one that is a pawn of Party.

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This is a special case where Party's interests and our interests directly coincide. We both would benefit if onine poker were made explicitly legal, and would suffer if the US gov tried to make it explicitly illegal. And Party does already give money to this org directly. But what it can't do is give US voters and that's what it is paying us for. PPA will have more influence if it has a sizeable membership of individual US voters, and that helps both party and us poker players.

Now, if all we do is sign up for the bonus and nothing else, the influence we add will be minimal. That's why the org needs people like you to sign up, jman, because you sound like you'll do more than just sit there and let Party run things - after you sign up and earn your bonus, get involved in the organization.

For example, I just sent this Cabot guy an email telling him about 2+2 and suggesting that he add a forum to the web site where we can ask questions and talk about legal issues that concern us. Anybody else that has any suggestions for how to run this thing, maybe start with sending him an email.

Also, look around the site. Most of the info so far seems to be about cases where the friendly neighborhood game gets busted by the cops. That doesn't strike me as a hot button issue for Party. I don't think they're a pawn of Party, but just an ally whose interests run in the same direction.

http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/keep.html