The following is an editorial that will run in the Androscoggin Journal later this week. The Cotton campaign insisted that the Journal editorial staff agree to run it. I do not fault my editors for this. However, I will continue to pursue questions about Gov. Cotton, the circumstances around his daughter-in-law’s death [...]
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?