Ms Khan's calls were so frequent, some fortune tellers told her to stop ringingPosted on 10/15/2008 10:41:58 AM PDT by BGHater
A Norwegian politician has said she will not seek re-election after running up a large phone bill ringing fortune-tellers at parliament's expense.
Saera Khan, an MP for the ruling Labour Party, admits calling pay-per-minute fortune-tellers 793 times in one nine-month period, for a total of 133 hours.
In one three-month period, she spent 48,000 kroner (£4,590; $7,750), the daily Verdens Gang newspaper reported.
Ms Khan, 29, who is on sick leave, has said she has paid the money back.
Ms Khan's spending, which was more than twice as much as her parliamentary colleagues, became known after the parliament in Oslo said it would no longer cover her bills.
Her calls became so frequent that many fortune-tellers told her to stop ringing, Verdens Gang reported.
Labour's parliamentary leader Hill-Marta Solberg said advice from fortune-tellers had not influenced the party's work in parliament.
However, neither Ms Khan nor Ms Solberg gave any details of what kind of advice Ms Khan sought, and Ms Solberg said the total amount of the bills would not be made public.
Ms Khan initially said the expensive calls were satellite phone calls to her boyfriend, who she said was on a secret foreign mission with Britain's special forces.
Ms Khan's calls were so frequent, some fortune tellers told her to stop ringing
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'However, neither Ms Khan nor Ms Solberg gave any details of what kind of advice Ms Khan sought, and Ms Solberg said the total amount of the bills would not be made public.'
Why not?
Stop Calling!!!
I read an article where Norwegians are getting dumped out of their apts so the country can give them to “asylum-seekers” from Africa and Islamic countries.
Political correctness was not insane there but apparently now it is worse than the UK. Cultural suicide at lighting fast speed. If you speak against it you are branded a racist.
We will see this in the USA if Obama wins.
As usual, it’s the fortune teller who gets the “fortune”. If someone’s stupid enough to pay for it, I wouldn’t want them in a public office, even if they were using their own money on it.
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