Check out the trailer here. And for God’s sake, ask your favorite reporter why he or she keeps ignoring this story.

From Strange Maine:

“Maine Governor Frank F. Cotton is raging up through the ranks as a distinguished contender for the Republican nomination. His image is that of hardy Maine stock, hard-working, honest, stern but engaging. The press knows his son Calvin as a recent widower and a staunch white-collar environmentalist, a lawyer who pushes back against the big boys his father pals around with. What the press doesn’t know, and what Frank Cotton doesn’t want them to find out, is that his grieving son is also unable to wrap his mind around the death of his wife, Bethany.

While Frank Cotton has been running his campaign state to state across the country, Calvin Cotton has very quietly lost his mind, and fetched his lovely bride from her funereal box for one last lovely New England winter getaway.” Read more here.

His son Calvin was not in attendance.

The Cotton campaign is over for now, but my pursuit of the truth is not. Where is Calvin Cotton? And who or what is buried in the grave meant for his dead bride Bethany?

You can say goodbye to the press corps, Mr. Cotton. But there is one reporter who will not stop seeking answers from you.

Frank Cotton calls this irrelevant to the campaign. He wants you to believe that he is such an ideal candidate, his only weakness is the grieving of a family member.

Don’t be swayed by this, undecided voter. Governor Cotton came under intense scrutiny not because his daughter-in-law died and not because the death rattled the entire family. Rather, Frank Cotton’s sins came in the form of covering up the actions of his son and in fact, that cover-up continues into Election Day.

I have accumulated great evidence that in 2004, Calvin Cotton dug up the body of his dead wife and disappeared with her. I have accumulated great evidence that Frank Cotton and his goons had young Calvin hunted down, the corpse snatched from him and disposed of.

My point has never been to disrupt the anguish of the Cotton family. From the start, my dogged pursuit of this story has been this simple idea: if Frank Cotton cannot be trusted to appropriately deal with a common family problem and the mental well-being of his son, can he be trusted to take on the much larger issues that face the nation?

Think about it before you cast that vote Frank Cotton so desperately wants from you.

I’m not making that terrific line up, folks. It was announced today that the tenacious governor will appear next week on the comedy show that has just exploded this season with political appearances. In a press statement released on Sunday, Cotton campaign manager Gary Orp referred to the candidate as “easily the funnest and funniest among the lot of them.”

But hear me out as I tell you why this is a dangerous move.

Cotton has been doing all he can to avoid mention of the situation involving his son. There is growing evidence that Calvin Cotton pilfered his dead wife from a cemetery and then made off with the body four years ago.

Think the comics at SNL will use restraint and ignore that? Me neither. It’s getting very close to Halloween, and if you can swipe a grisly plot like that from real world politics, that’s as tempting to a comedy team as aftershave is to an alcoholic.

According to the release: “Governor Cotton has always been a fan of SNL and is intimately familiar with their brand of comedy. Those of us who have worked with him for years know that he is up to the task. The millions of fans of the show might find themselves astounded by the depths of Frank Cotton’s talents.”

We already know his talent for evasion and the quickness of his anger. Let’s see how the good governor reacts when Tina Fey is carried before him in a grim portrayal of the dead and stolen Bethany Cotton.

The move is a transparent one. Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher, the plumber who questioned Obama about taxes in Holland, Ohio, turns out to owe back taxes and not hold a license for his plumbing work, according to news reports. He has been ripped apart by the media since becoming the focal point of the debate between John McCain and Barack Obama.

On Tuesday, Gov. Cotton said this: “Mr. Wurzelbacher has been brutalized by the candidates as many have been brutalized since this race began. I just feel we need to start taking care of each other when we can instead of sacrificing our fellow Americans to this savage run to the White House.”

As a political ploy, it’s not a bad one. McCain and Obama selfish and mean, it seems to say. Frank Cotton, generous and giving.

But there are just three weeks to go, Frank. I suggest you might need something more than a wrench man on your side to pull this one off.

The man is just lucky enough, and crafty enough to be our next president. Doesn’t that just scare the hell out of you?

Click on the photo to watch the video that may spell doom for all of us.

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I swear I’m not jumping out on a new political limb here, people. It’s just that the news lately is too damn mind-blowing to pass up. Here is another fine demonstration of what the American voter feels is important as we wind down the weeks to new leadership. It’s ironic that they use a monkey to express their views on race. It’s also a fine representation of the utter reluctance to evolve. Do you get the feeling that the shelf life of the United States is growing skimpier by the day? No? God bless your optimism, you little monkey.

(PHILADELPHIA) As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead…

After Palin finished her remarks this morning, the man holding the stuffed monkey seemed to notice that a video camera was pointed at him, at which point he removed the Obama sticker from the doll’s head and crumpling it up in his hand. He then handed the doll to a young boy who was watching the rally from his father’s shoulders. The boy’s parents later told CBS News that they weren’t acquainted with the man who gave their son the stuffed monkey.

Oh, come on!!

Dirt was released in September. Was this a promotional move to coincide with the presidential election?
I was taking my sweet time getting ”Dirt” to market. Richard Hoy from Splinter Press took a look at the manuscript and decided the timing was too serendipitous. He wanted to get it out there while everyone is still talking about Obama, McCain and Cotton. The book wasn’t written to be timed with the campaign. But it might have been hurried to the bookshelves for obvious reasons.

The book is about the campaign of Gov. Frank Cotton. But it is a work of fiction. How does that make sense?
Dirt is about Frank Cotton, the candidate you see every night on the evening news. It is about his family, his past, his fight for the White House. It’s unusual, I admit. Some would say it’s reckless. It is a work of fiction about a real man.

So, are you telling the world that Frank Cotton’s son Calvin dug up his dead wife and that the Cotton team is trying to cover that up?
Calvin Cotton in my novel dug up his dead wife, yes. Frank Cotton in my novel was desperate to find them and to hide the atrocity from the world, yes. In my novel all of that happens. In the real world? That’s not something I can say with certainty. It’s not my job to do so.