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Sep 18, 2009 2:44 pm US/Central

Gov. Reads Out Racy Wrong Number On Radio Show

Pawlenty Inadvertently Reads Out Number For Phone Sex Hotline Solicitation

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ― Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty made a slip of the tongue Friday morning on his weekly radio show, giving out a phone number that encourages people to call "for a good time" rather than the number for people to call in to talk to him on his program.

Pawlenty hosts a weekly radio show, "Good Morning Minnesota" on WCCO Radio.

During the program, Pawlenty was giving out phone numbers viewers could call into, when he prefixed the call-in line with 1-800, instead of the prefix for WCCO Radio's call-in number, 1-866.

The 1-800 number Pawlenty inadvertently advertised features a voice-recording which instructs people who want to "call and talk to fun people" to call a second number. The second number is a phone sex chat line.

WCCO Radio declined to comment on the slip. The governor's office released the following comment: "It was a simple mistake, and he corrected himself later."

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