Consider me a happy reporter.
With our Maine Governor Frank Cotton making a serious run for the presidency, I am afforded the chance to do some real journalism. There are stories swirling around Frank Cotton and they are waiting to be told.
What about his relationship to the man once convicted of burning down a block of buildings owned by Cotton? What about the governor’s rush trips back to Maine when he should be far away on the campaign trail? Why does the man refuse to talk about the death of his daughter-in-law at all?
Don’t get me wrong. I do not want to be perceived as having it in for the man. I like Frank Cotton. He has given me some wonderful interviews and we’re practically neighbors here in Boblin. In spite of the title of this blog, I have no evidence that there is anything dirty at all about his candidacy.
But there are questions. Lots of questions. And in this blog, I will be exploring them and inviting thoughts and tips from you people. It is a handy place to examine ideas that have no place yet in pages of the Androscoggin Journal for which I work.
Take a look at Frank Cotton’s presidential campaign page. He stands pointing as though everyone else has dirt to hide while he has none. It is a disarming gesture meant to imply: “I am Frank Cotton and I have nothing to hide.”
Really, Frank? Nothing at all?
In the coming weeks, as the presidential race reaches its crescendo, I mean to find out.
