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This is good advice. That said, you shouldn't have to call up a politician and beg in order to get government departments to perform functions that they are su
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
This is good advice.
That said, you shouldn't have to call up a politician and beg in order to get government departments to perform functions that they are supposed to be performing.
If you have some ultra-edge case involving your deceased uncle's estate's something or other it can be understandable. But this should be a routine business transaction and the city is incapable of making it happen. He's trying to give them a large amount of money FFS, you'd think they'd accept it and then do the menial amount of work to make the records on their end reflect that.
- justin66 5y agoThat's all pretty much ass-backwards. It'd be wildly inappropriate and unethical if a city councilman could somehow sway the settlement of an estate, which is the province of the court. Getting things moving in city hall's bureaucracy is in the councilman's remit, as is improving the state of the bureaucracy to prevent further problems in the future. They might not be the ideal person to handle anything in particular, but they should sure know who to talk to, and they should make time to do it.