According to Professional-Poker.com, Philip Ittleson has launched a website to combat the anti-gambling legislation before Congress.
U.S. movie producer Philip Ittleson is following the ethos of his poker documentary “No Limit” this week by publicizing his Let The People Play.org website to help educate and unite the millions of poker players in the United States who are against legislation that would ban online gambling, including poker.
“The whole internet gaming ban is a joke,” Ittleson says. “Poker players aren’t terrorists – let’s get our priorities straight. The biggest crime is that we aren’t regulating and taxing it.”
In order to combat the legislation, Ittleson set up the Let The People Play organization with the goal of raising a volunteer “army” to educate the estimated 70 million poker players in American about legislative moves in Congress and get them to sign up to defend the game and poker players’ rights.
While I applaud his efforts I do wish he would figure out a way to work with the Poker Player’s Alliance who already is doing many of the things he hopes to accomplish and who has already met with members of Congress. Additionally, the PPA has a team of lobbyist who are addressing the issue so a dollar spent is more likely to help via a combined effort rather than two groups trying to do the same thing without coordination.
Again, like I said, I applaud the effort but Mr. Ittleson please do the community a favor and instead of trying to launch a campaign on your own, donate whatever you were going to put into this to the PPA. The is certainly an effort where the efforts of the millions of people who play poker are better directed by one group than by many.