Fifteen months ago, a committee of the Kansas legislature wrote a reportcharging that Charles Wesley Roberts, chairman of the RepublicanNational Committee, had violated the “spirit”…
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By BRYAN LOWRY | McClatchy Washington Bureau | Published: December 22, 2020 WASHINGTON After Sarah Little watched her former boss of 20 years, Sen. Pat Roberts, deliver his farewell speech on the Senate floor Dec. 10 after 40 years in Congress, she left a voicemail to express her appreciation. Later that day, she got a call from a man claiming to be Wally Ballou. Little knew immediately who it was. Wally Ballou was a creation of Bob and Ray, a radio comedy team whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1980s. Roberts, a former journalist, adopted Ballou, a bumbling “man on the street” reporter, as his alias when he’d call his office and pose as an angry constituent.