Legalized Internet Gambling bill reaches 50 co-sponsors!

[JeffreyS]

This morning, Barney Frank’s Legalized Internet Gambling bill reached 50 Co-sponsors; a huge milestone which illustrates that momentum is growing for a shift in U.S. policy and a rewrite of U.S. Internet gambling laws.

With the help of concerned gamblers like you, the list of supporters will continue to grow as more representatives are educated on the subject and increasingly hear from their constituents that Internet gambling regulation presents the only viable way to protect consumers, since attempts to prohibit the activity have completely failed.

We have made it easy for you to contact your representative on our website Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative . We have a list of Co-sponsors so check and see if your Rep. has signed on. If not you should get on them to do so!

Thanks,
Jeff Sandman
Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative

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For those of you who don’t know what this is about: This past May, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced a bill in the House called the “Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act” which seeks to reverse UIGEA restrictions on internet gambling in the US. The bill would allow for regulated and taxed internet gambling, which will allow individuals to gamble online with the proper safeguards and to protect consumers and ensure the integrity of financial transactions.

[JeffreyS]

Check to see if your Rep. has signed on.

The following is a complete list of Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act (H.R. 2267) co-sponsors:

Alaska
• Don Young (R At-Large)

Arizona
• Raul Grijalva (D 7th)

California
• Mike Thompson (D 1st)
• George Miller (D 7th)
• Michael Honda (D 15th)
• Linda Sanchez (D 39th)
• Bob Filner (D 51st)

Colorado
• Jared Polis (D 2nd)
• Ed Perlmutter (D 7th)

Connecticut
• Joe Courtney (D 2nd)

Florida
• Robert Wexler (D 19th)
• Alcee Hastings (D 23rd)

Hawaii
• Neil Abercrombie (D 1st)

Idaho
• Walt Minnick (D 1st)

Illinois
• Luis Gutierrez (D 4th)
• Bill Foster (D 14th)

Indiana
• Andre Carson (D 7th)

Massachusetts
• James McGovern (D 3rd)
• Barney Frank (D 4th)
• Michael Capuano (D 8th)
• William Delahunt (D 10th)

Michigan
• John Conyers (D 14th)

Nevada
• Shelley Berkley (D 1st)

New Hampshire
• Paul Hodes (D 2nd)

New Jersey
• Robert Andrews (D 1st)
• Frank LoBiondo (R 2nd)
• John Adler (D 3rd)
• Steven Rothman (D 9th)

New York
• Tim Bishop (D 1st)
• Steve Israel (D 2nd)
• Peter King (R 3rd)
• Carolyn McCarthy (D 4th)
• Gary Ackerman (D 5th)
• Joseph Crowley (D 7th)
• Jerrold Nadler (D 8th)
• Edolphus Towns (D 10th)
• Mike McMahon (D 13th)
• Charles Rangel (D 15th)
• Paul Tonko (D 21st)

North Carolina
• Melvin Watt (D 12th)

Ohio
• Steve Driehaus (D 1st)
• Tim Ryan (D 17th)

Oregon
• Earl Blumenauer (D 3rd)

Tennessee
• Steve Cohen (D 9th)

Texas
• Ron Paul (R 14th)
• Ciro Rodriguez (D 23rd)

Virginia
• Bobby Scott (D 3rd)
• Tom Perriello (D 5th)
• James Moran (D 8th)

Washington
• Jim McDermott (D 7th)


Jeff Sandman
Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative

[EaglesLinc]

Good deal, there are three from Virginia

Virginia
• Bobby Scott (D 3rd)
• Tom Perriello (D 5th)
• James Moran (D 8th)

I will use these names to try and push the others in my state