What amazes me is not that all the affiliates aren’t planning on going – even though that is amazing since this industry is their livelihood – but that when we contacted Michael Bolceryck to simply ask him to send an email to his 250,000 poker players he refused to do so, yet he expressed his support for the protest and he sends out emails to Ohians to vote against Kyl and shows up on CNN/Fox/etc talking about carveouts.
This is exactly why the ban went through in the first place, our industry does a lot of talk talk talk on the web, but when action is truly needed, everyone shuts up.
Shelley Berkely insisted that we organize our forces and go out and protest before the election, she insisted it would make a mark if we did so, this was not just a crazy idea by a mad woman.