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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on October 10, 2008, 11:09:08 AM
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A Norwegian Labour Party politician took voluntary sick leave Thursday and said she wouldn't seek re-election after running up big phone bills at Parliament's expense by turning to an unusual set of advisers: fortunetellers.
Saera Khan's mobile phone habits became known after Parliament said it would no longer cover her bills, which Norway's largest newspaper Verdens Gang said hit 48,000 kroner (£4,590) in one three-month period.
'Advice from fortune tellers has not influenced the Labour party's work in Parliament,' Labour's parliamentary leader Hill-Marta Solberg said in announcing Khan's leave.
It was not immediately clear how long she would be on leave, but Khan said she would not seek a second term in September elections. Solberg said the amount of the bills would not be made public.
At first, Khan said the bills were run up because she was calling a satellite phone used by her boyfriend, who she claimed was on a secret foreign mission with Britain's special forces.
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link (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Politician_quits_over_fortuneteller_calls&in_article_id=351228&in_page_id=2)
It later became clear that the 'boyfriend' ran a trinket shop in California. :-)
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link (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Politician_quits_over_fortuneteller_calls&in_article_id=351228&in_page_id=2)
It later became clear that the 'boyfriend' ran a trinket shop in California. :-)
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KC