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Barney Frank revealed a little more about his plans for his repeal of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act to reporters today.
Frank did say that he will not repeal the entire bill, only the part that has to do with the issues in his committee.
Frank said he will introduce his bill in a couple of weeks to see how much support it gets. If there is a great deal of support he will continue moving forward to gain a repeal on the Internet gambling ban.
So does anyone knows what this guy is doing?
a.) Is he repealing the bill?
b.) Is he repealing the credit cards part of the bill?
c.) Is he introducing a new bill?
Stupid wrote:So does anyone knows what this guy is doing?a.) Is he repealing the bill?
b.) Is he repealing the credit cards part of the bill?
c.) Is he introducing a new bill?
First he will be introducing the idea of a repeal to his fellow representatives to see if there is any interest in a repeal. The interest will be determined by how much his fellow congressmen have been hearing from the people by means of phone calls, letters, and other forms of communication from groups, banks, and other people saying they are against the UIGEA.
If there is enough interest he will be writing a bill that will focus on repealing the part of the UIGEA that says credit cards must not allow Internet gambling transactions, which is the entire meat of the bill. If he succeeds, credit cards will have a choice whether they would like to accept Internet gambling transactions or not. IMO, if Frank gets that kind of repeal, the world of Internet gambling will be more open than it was before the UIGEA was passed.
Also, Frank pretty much has put this whole thing on the public. It is up to our community to get the message out there. If the public shows true and serious signs that they want a repeal, Frank will get it. If not, forget about the future of Internet gambling.
Hmm, credit card companies have been blocking voluntary gambling transactions for years… What he really needs to focus on (and what hurts the industry) is the bank transactions, not the credit cards.
The bank transactions will be included in his repeal. Anything that has to do with his committee.
So you are saying that he will introduce a bill which lifts the ban on ALL BANK TRANSACTIONS, but the rest of the bill would stay – such as that it is illegal for offshore gambling websites to accept wagers?
I am starting to be affraid of this guy. To repeal the UIGEA is one thing, but to write your own bill…who knows what could come out of it once the lobbies kick in…
The details of Frank’s repeal are unknown. Anything as of now is speculation.
However, I think it is in our benefit to be optimistic, instead of looking for all the little holes in Frank’s mission.
So far, it has been less than an hour and Frank’s comments about him wanting the UIGEA ‘undone’ have been reported by more than 20 news agencies including Reuters, Business Week and The Washington Post.
This is a good thing and it is very important for the Internet gambling community, including online casinos, online poker rooms, portals, news sites, and players, to come together and make a public ‘outcry’ for a repeal. Don’t worry about the semantics, let Frank figure that out.
where the hell is the money from Microgaming, Playtech and RTG…. Its now time for these guys to get off thier asses and step up to the plate.
How about all the casinos that bailed out of the US market sending a bulk email out to all of their players they ever had an email address for telling them to write their state representatives. How about all the webmasters who have mailing lists doing the same. How about all the forums telling their members to write their representatives. How about starting new petitions to repeal the UIGEA. How about the poker rooms who try so hard to get a poker exception changing their selfish ways for the greater good, the Poker Player Alliance alone is over 300,000 members, how about all of them writing and calling their representatives.
If Frank introduces this bill and there is not enough interest to pursue it there will be no one else to blame other than the people who care about this industry who did not do enough to ‘rally the troops’.
collecting signatures via placing links to a sig site from all the portals can also be useful.
I posted our CGW story on Digg so those of you with an account can ‘digg it’. We need to make people aware of this issue and this is one way to do so.
Here is another article on this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041200961.html
I’ts good to see the mainstream media is at least starting to provide coverage – let people become aware of it.
The ban irked some in the European Union which is home to online gambling firms that were forced to withdraw from the United States.
The bloc’s internal market chief Charlie McCreevy has hinted he may challenge the ban at the World Trade Organisation.
Last month the WTO said the ban violated international trade law as it still allowed online bets for horse racing.
Frank, who held talks with McCreevy during his visit to Europe, said the bill will be introduced or registered within a couple of weeks to test the level of support
More at the URL above.
Perhaps someone here can find a better list, but I found the following link that you all can post on your sites or send in your emails. It lists all the US congress people with links to their page that has contact information for each of them.
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
this may be easier to locate your reps.In an attempt to show Barney Frank that the country is vehemently opposed to the UIGEA Casino Gambling Web has started an ‘Outcry’ phone calling campaign. We will be doing a press release at all the major press release services across the web and we request the support of the entire Internet gambling community.
A copy of the press release can be found at the following address.
