FRANKFORT — Attorney General Ben Chandler said Thursday he will again ask the General Assembly to close most of the holes that make Kentucky's telemarketing bill “embarrassing.”

        “An endless number of telemarketing companies are making annoying and sometimes fraudulent calls,” Mr. Chandler said in a news conference.

        At the news conference in the Capitol were 32 index-card file drawers. Mr. Chandler said they held 55,000 consumer registrations for the “no call” list provided under the 1998 law.

        “Our law has so many loopholes. ... Our law is embarrassing.” Mr. Chandler said.

        A bill being introduced in the House on Mr. Chandler's behalf would reduce the law's 22 exemptions to five: small businesses, charities, newspaper circulation departments, schools, and companies that have a prior business relationship with a consumer or have consent.

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