From seMissourian.com:

Leroy Schenimann wants to know how he can stop the prerecorded political campaign calls from ringing his home phone.

The short answer: He can’t.

Schenimann, 52, said he received two such calls Tuesday and a third Wednesday morning at his home near Fruitland.

“Most of these are political polls. One was asking if I was going to vote for the guy running for the Republican governorship,” he said.

Another call, he said, “was someone running for state office. It started out with the sale of Anheuser-Busch. I don’t get what that has to do with an election. I hung up on them, and they called right back. I hung up again, and they called back again. You can’t even talk to these people — most are prerecorded and you can’t cut them off.”

Schenimann said he called Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle after getting a similar spate of automated calls leading up to the 2004 election.

That’s when he learned political candidates are among those who do not have to abide by the Missouri’s No Call rules, which allow people to protect their phone numbers from telemarketing involving the sale of goods and services, according to Scott Holste, spokesman for Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon’s office.

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