It’s nice that senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins get along so well. Their agreement on every issue shows party unity after all.
Here at the Androscoggin Journal, we get at least a handful of press releases from the Siamese Republicans each month. In those press releases, Snowe and Collins display their agreement by sharing comments [...]
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?