Hudgens says HB 87 bogs down insurance license renewals
Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens has become the latest state official to note the effect of red tape generated by H.B. 87, Georgia’s 2011 measure to address illegal immigration.
The following note from Hudgens has been posted on the agency’s website:
Due to recent legislative changes involving the Citizenship verification that is now required for all licensees at renewal, renewal processing in Georgia is backlogged and behind schedule.
Please know that the Department and its vendor are working diligently to ensure all renewals are processed before December 31st.
However if there are renewals that have been submitted and not processed by December 31st – the Department will continue processing these renewals until all have been updated.
We are asking Insurers and companies to be patient as the delay in a licensee being able to provide a copy of their new license card is not necessarily their fault at this point due to this time delay with renewal processing.
If you have submitted your renewal and payment but have not submitted your Citizen Affidavit and ID – please upload via our website: http://www.oci.ga.gov/iform/
Thank you for your patience during this difficult time.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp has noted the turmoil the illegal immigration bill has caused within his professional licensing operations, and intends to ask the Legislature to address the problem this year. A fix supported by immigration activists failed last year.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Serious Robuck
December 27th, 2012
9:00 pm
td, your bulb burns as dim as ever.
Ronin
December 27th, 2012
9:15 pm
Actually, while this is a headache at the moment, it will actually be beneficial in years to come.
Georgia is doing the right thing by requiring documentation of citizenship. The long term savings in state benefit programs and public school expenses for illegal aliens will save 100’s of millions over the next decade.
Word
December 27th, 2012
9:43 pm
Insurance salespeople are scum-bags. Eliminate the middle man. Socialize medicine.
double
December 27th, 2012
9:58 pm
Word- especially the Bible toting ones.
Auntie Christ
December 27th, 2012
10:02 pm
If you’re wondering why one of the children here uses the screen name ‘aesop’s fables,’ it is because he has only a third grade education, and that is the only literary reference he could come up with. Well that or Mother Goose, but he wants to sound like a big boy so he can’t use that. Mommy reads him Aesop’s Fables every night at bedtime, to keep him from wetting the bed. Poor little fella.
Corey
December 27th, 2012
10:07 pm
The law makers under the gold dome write the laws. Upper level managers at state agencies assign policy writing to middle level managers. Front line, low wage state employees behind the counter or in a cubicle grapple with trying to interpret policy handed to them in some memo or directive and provide service to some of the nastiest Gerogians God has ever breathed life into. I say all that to say this. Don’t take it out on state employees. They are only trying to make the laws work that legislators write. See Department of Driver Services.
Auntie Christ
December 27th, 2012
10:16 pm
What’s with the incessant yammering from the righties about how ‘illegals’ are taking advantage of the good state of jawga, receiving welfare benefits, healthcare etc illegally. In a “Political Insider” post previous to this one today, the blogger referenced an article in Slate about jawga being the worst state in the US for taking care of the needy. This backward state doesn’t even take care of citizens who can trace their heritage back 200 years in the state, so I doubt seriously that a Mexican who just came here is somehow managing to accrue benefits that a proven citizen cannot. It is amazing how gullible these wing nutters are and how willingly they will pass on, without the slightest shred of any evidence, any untruths that fit their disturbed world view, of brown hordes streaming across the border into our good state to rip off the hard working, bible thumping white man.
Ronin
December 27th, 2012
10:31 pm
Actually, some bloggers simply post a red herring for amusement, and that it is. Pure political satire devoid of any meaningful facts.
Open the border with Mexico and Canada via a work visa and a flat tax and or a VAT tax on guest workers.
td
December 27th, 2012
10:35 pm
PHOENIX (AP) – The Mexican government has urged a U.S. court to stop Arizona from enforcing a minor section of the state’s 2010 immigration law that prohibits the harboring of illegal immigrants.
Lawyers representing Mexico asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Wednesday to uphold a lower-court ruling that blocked police from enforcing the ban. Mexico argued the ban harms diplomatic relations between the United States, undermines the U.S.’s ability to speak to a foreign country with one voice and encourages the marginalization of Mexicans and people who appear to be from Latin America.
“Mexico cannot conduct effective negotiations with the United States when the foreign policy decisions of the federal governments are undermined by the individual policies of individual states,” lawyers for the Mexican government said in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/20435180/mexico-urges-court-to-block-part-of-arizona-law#ixzz2GJXAKZsB
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If that is not the lamest excuse I have ever heard. I wonder if it has anything to do with all the money the illegals send back home or maybe all the drug money brought back into the country?
Rabbit
December 27th, 2012
10:38 pm
There’s woman who has been approved for a license 10 times in the State of Georgia over a 35 year, who was born in the USA, has crossed it’s borders once in a lifetime and only then for less than a week vacation and whose citizenship was questioned by the DDR in application for her 11th renewal. A trip home, a second wait in line to prove what the state has known for 35 years. Bring in the clowns.
Rabbit
December 27th, 2012
10:43 pm
There, there, fellow, some are not likely to accept a story from “myfox”
td
December 27th, 2012
10:47 pm
Rabbit
December 27th, 2012
10:43 pm
It is an AP story posted to the myfox site. I am sure you will agree that the AP is not a conservative organization.
Serious Robuck
December 27th, 2012
11:01 pm
td, are you still excited about what Dick Morris and Sean Hannity and Rasmussen predicted about the election? Bless your heart, td. It’s over. You got spanked, little buddy. Now get over it. You don’t know sh’t from sh’nola. And you never will. You show us all how stupid you are every day.
td
December 27th, 2012
11:13 pm
Serious Robuck
December 27th, 2012
11:01 pm
Whatever. I miss predicted one election during the past two cycles and now I know nothing. Really? If that was the case then most if not all the progressive posters on this blog should be irrelevant since they were saying the Dems would gain seats in the HOR, Barnes would be the next governor, Martin the next superintendent of education, the woman the LT, and Thurmond would beat Johnny for the Senate. How many of those predictions did you make under a different screen name?
The difference is, unlike you libs, not afraid to continue on the blog after a loss.
Running
December 27th, 2012
11:23 pm
Td
What is that federal gun permit you have? That blogger at Bookman’s spanked you this morning. Of course you ignored him when you made you look like you do most of the time…. Stupid
td
December 27th, 2012
11:27 pm
Running
December 27th, 2012
11:23 pm
I was wrong. I should have said I went through a Federal background check for my carry permit. If you do not think I carry and have a permit then name a place and time and I will meet you and show you my gun and permit.
Cutty
December 27th, 2012
11:39 pm
The fact that td has been on this blog, literally all day, shows the type of person he is.
Buckhead Boy
December 28th, 2012
1:13 am
td: “If that is not the lamest excuse I have ever heard.”
Then obviously you have not heard of the Supreme Court’s ruling in “De Canas v. Bica”. But, if a federal constitution and a civil war cannot convince reactionaries that we don’t have a confederation, what consequence a court ruling, right?
Running
December 28th, 2012
6:57 am
Ahhhhh
Little td will show you his gun as if he is the only person who carries..
Td the little attention monger wants to show is toys
How sweet. Bless his heart
GB
December 28th, 2012
8:13 am
Intown
If they are here illegally they are not law-abiding. And it is interesting that you should start to quote the poem on the statue of liberty. Are our laws established by Congress, or long dead poets?
GB
December 28th, 2012
8:20 am
Interesting to see all the charges of racism. Weak. I was talking to a legal Chinese immigrant who is now a citizen. She is at a loss to understand how we just let people come here and stay if they deem it to be in their best interest. She has this crazy notion, a racist notion I imagine, that our immigration policy should be based on what is best for the country not what is best for people from poor Latin American countries.
GB
December 28th, 2012
8:27 am
She also thinks it is nutty for us to have a law that requires taxpayers to pay for school for illegals. I had trouble explaining this to her. I guess she is just too racist to understand.
Speaking of the term “illegals.” Some time back the Assn of Hispanic Journalists sent out some kind of communication urging the media to stop using the term “illegals.” The organization said the term is not only demeaning (maybe racist, I can’t remember), but grammatically incorrect. I emailed the contact at the assn and asked what is grammatically incorrect about using an adjective substantively. Maybe I should have posed the question in Spanish. I pointed out another example of the usage: “Hispanics.” I never did get an answer.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 28th, 2012
8:46 am
Calling other people racist based on their political views is like printing an announcement that you are a member of the simple minded community.
Vashtai
December 28th, 2012
9:23 am
When I turned 15, I had to take my birth certificate to the local GSP office to get my learner’s permit. A year later, I took the written test and driving test and they gave me my first driver’s license. Over the years, all I had to do was show my old license to get it renewed.
I am so glad I got my driver’s license renewed in 2010. Back then, I was offered an 8 year license, and I took it. Maybe they will make it easier for me to renew in 2018. Let’s hope.
Georgia
December 28th, 2012
9:41 am
It is very hard to find an honest man. Now it will be easy to find a licensed insurance agent who is not from another state, country, or planet. The Vatican offers soul insurance, but nobody ever qualifies because of the preexisting condition of original sin. Well, two people did qualify. The rest of us will take our chances with St. Pete, who has to renew his license as gate keeper every eternity. Very little paperwork in heaven, folks. The only way to blow it up there is to try to pass ordinances requiring paper work like what Lucifer done did and is still paying for. Now, he needed soul insurance.
Georgia Politics, Campaigns and Elections – – Georgia Pundit
December 28th, 2012
9:44 am
[...] Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, a Republican, says that the immigration reforms of HB 87 are slowing down his departm…. [...]
Rabbit
December 28th, 2012
9:45 am
“. . . the milkman left me a note yesterday. Get out of this town by noon,
You’re coming on way too soon
And besides that
we never liked you anyway. . .” — John Prine
It was described as “a strange epitaph for a strange year…” when the paranoid author quoted the quirky wordsmith and musician back in the year our then president resigned. But Hunter Thompson, the gun enthused writer best known for his mad insights on the 1972 election campaign, had he not died by his own gun, would definitely discover that the fall of Nixon, while strange, just may be eclipsed by the lunacy that reigns in the US House of Representatives at the end of 2012. In a year when the first black president upset the challenger after a lackluster first term – a year when middle class southerners voted, en mass, against their own interests. A strange year when the legislative branches of both the state and country, with a majority born of democracy destroying gerrymandering, has set a course toward economic calamity with only Orwellian politispeak to jusify their unjustifiable path.
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December 28th, 2012
10:10 am
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Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 28th, 2012
10:40 am
The founding fathers didn’t consider “assault” weapons when they wrote the Constitution because there weren’t any. Citizens didn’t have them nor did the British Regulars. The Constitution was written with the single ball musket in mind because it could defend against the British and anyone else that attacked the citizens of this once great nation.
But now we have “assault” weapons. And, something much worse – liberalism. The British were fairly decent people who didn’t rape and pillage and were modest tax and spenders. liberals? Rapists, heathens, perverts and tax leviers that make the British look like rank amateurs. And guess what kind of weapons they are armed with, regardless of the laws that their naive leaders impose upon them. Dat’s right, “assault” weapons. Gosh, they have them even in the gun “free” zones.
And so, out the window goes the argument that your average law abiding and decent citizen does need a thirty round ammunition clip. Ever tried to count the number of libs in a flash mob? Think a pump shotgun will do much good against one?
yellowdog
December 28th, 2012
10:40 am
ga lawmakers are an embarrassment
liberalefty
December 28th, 2012
11:00 am
@AESOPS
WHEN did this nation cease to be great? WHEN A Black family moved into the whitehouse? when DUBYA COuldnt defend america from OSAMA?please pin point the exact moment America stopped being great
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 28th, 2012
11:03 am
When the first lib came to power?
liberalefty
December 28th, 2012
11:07 am
@aesops
when FDR became president?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 28th, 2012
11:14 am
LBJ is more like it.
liberalefty
December 28th, 2012
11:16 am
@aesops
YOU
liberalefty
December 28th, 2012
11:18 am
@aesops
You thought the country was greater when minorities and women didnt have full rights…typical conservative.
Corey
December 28th, 2012
12:50 pm
How is that conservative movement that took root back in the 80’s working out for you? Huge deficits, crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, poverty rate increase, stagnant wages, health care costs balooning, dysfunctional government, a new war every couple of years, war on drugs, doubled incarceration rate, a society awashed guns, a burgeoning homeless population even in samll towns, the mentally ill wandering the streets having conversations with themselves, national wealth flowing upward, gays have burned down their closets, declining church attendance. Conservatives, when will you learn? When you war against that which you despise the fallout isn’t always pretty.