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Campaign telephone listing goes to sex line

By The Associated Press wire report September 08, 2008 10:51 AM

Callers looking for a Maine congressional candidate's campaign office are instead directed to a phone sex line, thanks to a phone book snafu.

The latest Talking Phonebook for the Portland area lists a toll-free number for Republican 1st District candidate Charlie Summers' campaign office in Saco.

But when people call the number, they are greeted by a woman's voice inviting them to call another toll-free number, which turns out to be a phone sex line.

Summers told WGME-TV that the Talking Phonebook picked up one of his old campaign numbers by mistake.

A Talking Phonebook spokesman said the company will remove the number from its Web site and from future editions of the paper phone book.