Candidate as talk show co-host?

[Daniel Billings]

The liberal half of WGAN's morning show was on vacation this week.  Ethan
Strimling, a State Senator from Portland and a candidate for re-election
this fall, filled in as the co-host.  He has filed in regularly on the show
over the last couple of years.  It seems weird to me that the station would
have a candidate for office as a show host on a political talk show just a
few months before the election.  Thoughts?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine