Important: Players and Operators, Internet Gambling Prohibition bills coming up for a

[JC]

To all players,

Please contact your Representative in Congress regarding the two pending bills to outlaw internet gambling. Just follow the information below the dotted line. If you have already done so, please do it again. If you have already gotten a negative response, please engage them and write them back with facts. A good source for any reply to your Congressperson is:

http://www.OnlineGamblingMythsAndFacts.com

Or just send them this editorial from the Las Vegas Review Journal:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Feb-18-Sat-2006/opinion/5950681.html

TO THE OPERATORS, AFFILIATES, AND ALL WHO MAKE A LIVING FROM THIS INDUSTRY,

Now is not the time to be apathetic about these bills. While they have always failed in the past, they have gotten closer to passage each year. This is a multi-billion dollar industry, do you want it to come to a grinding halt? If this bill passes the House, all the backers in the Senate have to do is attach it to a bill in the middle of the night. They have successfully done it in the past.

Every person in this business should send the email below to all of their customers and contacts. There are supposedly millions of players in this industry. If only one percent spoke up, it would make a huge difference. Most of the lawmakers couldn't care less about this bill. But they will vote along with it if it comes to the floor and they haven't heard any opposition from their constituents.

Please don't let that happen.

Thank you

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TIME TO STAND UP AND BE HEARD. LET THEM KNOW YOU VOTE, YOU PAY TAXES, YOU GAMBLE ONLINE, AND YOU ARE OPPOSED TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TRYING TO STOP YOU FROM ENJOYING YOUR HOBBY.

Thursday, May 25th, H.R. 4411, the Leach bill (the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006") and H.R. 4777, the Goodlatte bill (the"Internet Gambling Prohibition Act") are going before the full House Judiciary Committee for "mark up." Maybe they will discuss it, maybe they won't. Members may or may not try to add amendments and carve outs. They will then vote up or down. If it passes, it will be free to go to the House floor at the discretion of the House leadership.

The Leach bill (H.R. 4411, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006) outlaws financial transactions for internet gambling. It exempts certain government favorites but clearly makes financial transactions with offshore sportsbooks and casinos illegal. The Goodlatte bill outlaws all internet gambling as we know it. It mandates the Federal government spends $10 million a year enforcing it. The Goodlatte bill also protects government monopolies.

The time is now to stand up and let your voice be heard. Please call and write your Representative in the House and your two Senators. Tell them you are opposed to the Leach bill, H.R. 4411, and the Goodlatte bill, H.R. 4777, The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.

Call (202) 224-3121 and give them your zip code. They will connect you to your Representative's office.

To write, follow the instruction at this link:

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

To contact your Senators call the same number again and/or follow the links at http://www.senate.gov for their direct contact information.

[Illusion]

This is very important, so here's a bump.

[Seattle Slew]

I think these bills are going a long way, and won't be derailed, if at all, until late in the process. These committee votes usually slide through easily.

With mid-term elections coming up and before that summer recess, hopefully the legislation will get lost in the shuffle.

It does amaze me that with terrorism, national deficits, immigration problems, hurricane rebuilding, that our lawmakers could spend one minute on gambling legislation.

[BSTPNM68]

I am confident that this gambling legislation will make damn sure that I can walk 200 steps down from my office to our floor level retail to piss away money on the Mass. lottery, which gives the state a 50% or more advantage.

[BK]

and all of this because they don't get a piece of the pie. I'm sure if these greedy b*stards were able to tax all the off-shore books, they wouldn't worry about it. They would let them do whatever they wanted. But since that's not possible, might as well just try to do away with the whole thing

[bigboydan]

and all of this because they don't get a piece of the pie.

yep, that perty much sums it all up in a nut shell bud.

[Seattle Slew]

I have a question that I can't figure out. If and when this comes to a vote, what percentage is needed to clear the House. Simple majority or two-thirds?

And if and when it hits the Senate, same question. Simple majority or two-thirds?