Ad agency goofs on campaign billboard

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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- A mistake at an ad agency led to a billboard on a Charlotte interstate highway that proclaims "Gore 2000" and shows a picture of George W. Bush.

Ad agency executive David Oakley said Saturday the mistake would be fixed Monday, but he wouldn't say which presidential candidate the billboard will represent.

"I can't say," Oakley said. "We've been instructed not to say."

Until the mixup is corrected, both presidential candidates will get equal time on the billboard on I-485 in front of thousands of motorists in North Carolina's largest city.

Oakley said the mistake was discovered Friday, too late to get a crew to change the ad.

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