Repeal the Online Gambling Ban!

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Pressure on Congress works. People all over the Internet, including DC
Downsizers, have been pressuring Congress to repeal the ban on
transferring money to online gambling sites.

We're starting to see a response.

Representative Barney Frank, the new chairman of the House Financial
Services Committee, has pledged to introduce legislation in the next
couple of weeks to repeal the ban.

Now is the time to up the ante, so to speak, and encourage your
Congressperson to co-sponsor Frank's bill, and to ask your Senators to
introduce a similar bill. You can send your message at
http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=57

Frank's comments about the online gambling ban are telling . . .

"I think a lot of members of Congress voted for that without
having given it a lot of attention. And I think that there is growing
opposition to it. I think that this may be a case where, after the
fact of having voted for it, people don't like it and they
reconsider."


Please allow us to translate . . .

Almost no one in Congress read this bill before they voted on it. The
bill was combined with another, unrelated piece of legislation, about
Port Security, and that's what Congress really voted to approve, not
this gambling ban.

Please allow us to translate again . . .

We need the "Read the Bills Act" and the "One Subject at a Time Act."

To get these bills passed we need more pressure, because pressure
works. But to exert more pressure we need more people, and to recruit
more people we need better financing. April is nearing an end. Please
help by making a contribution to further our work. You can do so here.

Thank you for being a DC Downsizer.

Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

In Solidarity,
Comrade Ringo Kamens