Our dear friend Sen. Jon Kyl who was kind enough to protect us from ourselves by driving through the UIGEA now wants to protect US citizens from another evil; information. Despite the fact that the Open Government Act has wide public and bi-partisan support Kyl has used an obscure Senate rule to block a vote on the bill.
But get this, oh the irony is so thick here, the Senate rule Kyl used to block a bill that would require the government to be more open was a rule that allowed a senator to block the a vote anonymously. Scumbag doesn’t even begin to describe this guy.
Kyl revealed his identity Thursday, days after the bill’s backers launched an e-mail and telephone campaign, urging supporters to help in “smoking out ‘Senator Secrecy.’” They pointed out the irony that an open government bill was being blocked using a rule that allowed secrecy.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
