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Sammy Allred & Bob Cole (KVET)

If they were doing it in the sports biz, they'd be making a lot more money. As it is, they'll have to settle for notoriety. The popular KVET morning radio talk show duo saw fit this political season to get the incumbent mayor some opponents, by gosh. Not by coincidence, both James Cooley and Daryl Slusher's campaigns were started on the Sammy & Bob show. Perhaps Cooley had already been thinking about it for a while, and maybe Slusher didn't seriously consider it for a while after, but clearly Sammy & Bob emerged from the race as the unofficial must-have endorsement. Incidentally, they can't endorse, as per FCC rules. But we don't think they ever would anyway, even if they could.