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THANKS! I've seen it several times, just couldn't remember where.

ninemm wrote:Finally!

Congrats!

But you have to tell me - what is your avatar? It's driving me crazy. I keep thinking it's from a Pixar film but cannot place it.

Rigger 609 wrote:he said that I should contact my state Rep. so they could increase the budget so they can hire more people

Actually, this is really good advice - maybe not so much about the 'increase the budget', but contacting your rep really will help get things expedited. More people should do this.

dwdog wrote:I was told that it was Harris, Galveston, and Montgomery county that had slowed down so much, and that it had to do a lot with the Presidential Election and Hurricane Ike. The Election causing "hundred's of thousands" more applicants than normal, which ok maybe I can see, but the Hurricane, I will throw up the bull flag on that. Things should be back to normal for that by now.

dwdog, I think I'd throw the bull flag on more than the hurricane if you've been told that. My wife received her plastic in about 10 weeks after a Montgomery County background check - I'm still waiting on Harris County (I work in Harris County, she's only in Montgomery County). So I don't think Montgomery County has slowed down. And, while it's true that they've seen a sharp increase in applications, I don't believe it's been in the "hundreds of thousands" - but if that is true, then they've received tens of millions of additional dollars and can afford to increase staffing. What it boils down to for me - I don't care why they are delaying. They are breaking the law. If I was months late on a project my manager assigned, and I said "gee, it's because we had a hurricane last year", I'd be fired. This is just another example of the lack of accountability in government.

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quickdraw wrote:I am at 142 days and getting very tired of seeing people get plastic that applied two months after I did.

You should be. I hope you're writing your state reps, the governor's office, and anyone else you can think of. But you should be mad at DPS, not at the folks who refuse to take whatever garbage they get from the guvmint.

dwdog wrote:jumping ahead of me from March. If you are an April applicant and reading this, sorry, but it just isn't fair.

Line jumping? Not fair? I view it differently. DPS is consistently failing to meet its statutory requirements. Personally, I think that everyone who passes the 90 day mark - thereby receiving an implicit denial - should burn up the phones and start a letter-writing campaign. I don't think it's an attempt to "line jump" or "be unfair", it's an attempt to take some initiative and hold DPS accountable. We've paid for a service that DPS is obligated to provide within a specified time frame, and there is nothing wrong with rattling their collective cages until they fix the problem. Perhaps if enough of DPS management hears from enough irate legislators they'll shift staff around to fix the problem. I'd bet that if they assigned two additional officers for three weeks the Harris County backlog would disappear.