Author Mark LaFlamme’s book “Dirt: An American Campaign” has a new video trailer afloat. And yet, the media world has yet to make a connection between the novel and the filthy presidential campaign run by Gov. Frank Cotton and his people.
Check out the trailer here. And for God’s sake, ask your favorite reporter why he [...]
The Controversy
In the spirit of Primary Colors, fellow Maine Journalist Mark LaFlamme may be weaving a very real past event with a bit of fictional present in his new book, Dirt: An American Campaign.In the book, the son of a "Governor Cotton", removes the corpse of his beloved bride from the Riverside Cemetery in Boblin, Maine and goes on the run.
Fact is Calvin Cotton's wife did die in 2004 and, rumor has it, Calvin did go missing for some time shortly after.
Is this something the Cotton campaign is really trying to cover up? Or is it all a fabrication by LaFlamme?