At HUD, some telephonehotline services run by outside contractors providing housing counseling services to the public were still operating on Friday, including the Federal Housing Administration Resource Center.
In 2007, London Mayor Boris Johnson was chosen as Conservative candidate in a contest which was open to all Londoners on the electoral roll who registered on a telephonehotline.
One of Mr Kiriyenko's opening gambits has been to set up a telephonehotline (Moscow 201 8603) for disgruntled Muscovites who want to dish dirt on Mr Luzhkov's notoriously murky administration.