Got two interesting calls today and one brow-raising Twitter. (That’s right, I use Twitter. It’s not just for 16 year old girls, you know.)
The Twitter said this: Gov. Frank Cotton, riding a long wave of family values, says he is seriously considering a young, female journalist as his running mate. Her name is Amber Waterman and she’s quite talented, smart and pretty.
But VP material? Waterman is almost a caricature of the party-girl photographer and there is no sign she espouses the same conservative values as the governor. Again, it seems Cotton is bent on copying the McCain playbook, even when that means making bad, bad mistakes.
One call I got was from a board member at Riverside Cemetery. He asked, politely at first and then more forcefully, that I take the Cotton at the Tomb video down. His reason: he does not want this fine cemetery embroiled in controversy, especially one as lurid as a political scandal entailing a robbed grave.
I declined to remove the video, the cemetery board man grumbled and hung up.
I also got a call from Mark LaFlamme, a reporter from Lewiston and of course, the author of Dirt: An American Campaign.
With that novel serving as an epicenter of the Cotton Campaign Scandal, you’d think LaFlamme would be jumping into the fray and trying to further push those rumors. But nope. He called basically to congratulate me on the video and to say he really can’t talk much about the truth behind Dirt.
I get the feeling LaFlamme is getting pressure from somewhere. I have no idea the source of it. Yet another mystery to ponder as October prepares to slide onto the calendar.
