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WhiteTara

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4. I wondered why they would do that

Reply to ScreamingMeemie (Original post)

Sun May 1, 2016, 03:22 PM

May 2016

Workers say they did this when they couldn't meet the seven-day deadline for processing emergency applications.

"It makes the state's numbers appear artificially high, as if they were processing things according to law," Hager says, "when in fact, they aren't."

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I wondered why they would do that WhiteTara May 2016 #4

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Sorry Rex angrychair May 2016 #11

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