[SharpAngles]

AG NOMINEE SESSIONS “OPEN” TO IGAMING BAN!

Weekly Update from Rich Muny, VP of Player Relations

Two days ago, in reply to questioning by anti-poker Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions said he was “shocked” by the 2011 Department of Justice finding that the Wire Act does not apply to poker, that he opposed the decision “when it happened,” and that he is open to revisiting that decision.This is unprecedented.

The 2011 DoJ review was not a political decision. Rather, it was performed by career lawyers at the DoJ Office of Legal Counsel. The idea that a political appointee would threaten to consider reopening the review to achieve an outcome to his liking threatens the underlying principle of unbiased review.

In response, PPA Executive Director John Pappas shared the following in a press release that I encourage you to read in full:

“In 2006, a Republican Congress and a Republican President passed and signed into law a bill that allowed states to regulate online gaming. This language was reaffirmed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2011 and empowered individual states to pursue policies that best served their citizens.“A reversal of this decision would be a radical departure from the precedent given to the independent and legally based opinions generated by DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

We appreciate nominee Sessions’ pledge to give the issue ‘careful study,’ and we also have no doubt that such careful study will reaffirm what OLC, the courts and Congress already agree on: the Wire Act is limited to sports betting and states may regulate other forms of internet gaming.“We also trust that he adheres to the longstanding practice of giving ‘great weight to any relevant past opinions’ when he reviews OLC’s 2011 position with regard to the Wire Act. The precedent of giving weight to prior OLC decisions is something both the Bush and Obama administrations advised in published ‘Best Practices’ memorandums.

This has already generated strong opposition. Earlier today, Campaign for Liberty, Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, and other pro-limited government groups sent a letter in support of the right of states to authorize online poker. Please be sure to check out this short PPA video on the exchange between Sessions and Graham:

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Let’s make and like pro-poker tweets in reply to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), asking her to stand up for the right of her state to license and regulate online poker.

Claims that Online Poker Used to Fund Terrorism Debunked

At its launch, Sheldon Adelson’s Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling made unsubstantiated claims that terrorists could use poker websites to fund their activities. These claims were recently debunked further by a Congressional task force report on terror financing — Stopping Terror Finance: Securing The US Financial Sector — that made no mention of online gaming and did not recommend a federal online gaming ban, this despite the fact that the task force chairman was anti-poker former Pennsylvania Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick.For more, be sure to check out this article on Online Poker Report.

[franklee168]

Sharp, what's the short version here and what should I do?

[Auto Donk]

oh my.... wouldn't that be just horrible....

all the crooked, rigged shithole poker sites might be shut down.....

can't happen soon enough in my opinion.....

send the fish down river to the casinos, so they can be removed from their money without any equalizer programmming, bot assistance, insder assistance, etc.....

penetrate online poker in the states....

[sweep]

No shot of this happening

[SharpAngles]

Sharp, what's the short version here and what should I do?

Click the take action button and write your local congressmen and senators to let them know you support online gaming!

[SharpAngles]

No shot of this happening

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf...e_gamblin.html

Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, an opponent of online gambling, and his wife contributed $20 million to a super political action committee supporting Trump.
An Adelson-funded group, the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, said it was "encouraged by Sen. Sessions' commitment to revisit the Obama administration's overreach on Internet gambling and delighted to learn he was similarly shocked by their memorandum gutting the Wire Act."

[Crusherrr]

oh my.... wouldn't that be just horrible....

all the crooked, rigged shithole poker sites might be shut down.....

can't happen soon enough in my opinion.....

send the fish down river to the casinos, so they can be removed from their money without any equalizer programmming, bot assistance, insder assistance, etc.....

penetrate online poker in the states....

So if you can't win it must be rigged. Right...

[astro61200]

Old people that don't understand how things work. They probably just assume the internet is some magical entity that retrieves information for them, and allows blowhard Trump to cry like a sissy over Twitter.

[RudyRuetigger]

short answer: Send PPA money so they can collect more of your fukkin money... glad I never donated to those **********

[SharpAngles]

Rudy I hesitated to post this because I'm not a PPA fan either but writing to your representatives to let them know this is horseshit is a good thing. PPA happens to have the easiest platform for everyone to find and contact their reps so I went ahead and put it up. Def not an endorsement to donate to them.