In 2002, Lewiston Mayor Larry Raymond wrote a letter to the Somali community asking them to keep their friends and relatives from moving to the city. Lewiston was full, he told them. The city could take no more immigrants.
The reaction was swift. Raymond was lambasted by half the population, lauded by the other. A small [...]
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?