BREAKING NEWS!! Senator Larkin Speaks, Exclusive Twitter Interview

Accused of avoiding the electorate and ducking his opponent, embattled two-term Maine Senator Daniel Larkin this morning agreed to his first interview in more than three months, the stipulation being that he would only correspond through Twitter direct messaging. Already trailing GOP favorite Gene Tatum by 5 points, polls show Larkin now losing support with his base and supporters have expressed concern with less than three weeks until the mid-term elections.

Larkin has circumvented the spotlight since a July town hall event, when C-SPAN cameras caught the incumbent Democrat from Cape Elizabeth urinating on a member of his staff, then ordering that staff member to wipe himself dry on a constituent who had been asking a question about immigration. The Tea Party-endorsed Tatum charges that Larkin is sidestepping voters by failing to agree to any debates, disabling his email accounts and forwarding all campaign and Senate office phones to a South Portland Olive Garden restaurant, an accusation Larkin staff members say they would flatly deny if only they were available to do so.

The Senator was last seen on Sept. 17, exiting the apartment where the body of Linda Mulholland was discovered just a few moments later. Larkin only agreed to this interview in exchange that Place it on Lucky Dan not release a 14-minute voice recording of the Senator repeating the N-word in a non-stop staccato fashion using various dialects and inflections.

Larkin promised to answer 5 questions total and each would be confined to the 140-character limit. Follow-up questions could be asked, he said, but would not be answered.

The following is the full transcript:

@Larkin2010   Sen. Larkin, your opponent accuses you of many things, including killing a woman. You’re only down by 5 points. How is this even possible?

@PIOLD   The voters know me. Who really knows Gene Tatum? He’s a Bush rubberstamp. Plus we have some internals that show us up by 19.

@Larkin2010   You voted for Obamacare, TARP, stimulus and introduced a bill designed to divide Maine into 3 separate countries. How would you vote today?

@PIOLD   It’s not how I’d vote today or how I voted yesterday. It was cloudy yesterday, my dish reception was awful. Do you think cable’s better?

@Larkin2010   The voters deserve to know where you stand. Why won’t you debate Tatum? What was your relationship to Miss Mulholland? Why this interview?

@PIOLD   U ask a lot of questions, so far they’ve all been good. Mullholland–didn’t expect you to go there. U got balls. Why not this interview?

@Larkin2010   Answer the question! Any of them. Pick one! Do you have any public appearances scheduled between now and election day?

@PIOLD   I’m just reading your Katy Perry article. #funny You’re lucky you found that recording because I’m not sure why else I’d agree to this

@Larkin2010   You have nothing to say? You’re ready to face the voters and not answer these charges? Do you realize the DNC has endorsed Tatum?

@PIOLD   I’ve got stuff on them too. You worry too much. Look, I feel bad. Lets start over. Ask me 5 questions & I promise I’ll answer them honestly

@Larkin2010   I appreciate that … Why won’t you agree to a debate? Tatum says your rules, your venue, your crowd, your moderator. One debate, just one.

@Larkin2010   Senator? Please answer the question. Will you debate Tatum?

@Larkin2010   Are you still there? Were you intimate with Miss Mulholland and was your wife aware of the relationship?

@Larkin2010   We’ve decided to release the tape anyway. We already mentioned it, the readers know so what’s the difference? Good luck with the campaign.

@PIOLD   This is Pete. I’m assistant manager at Olive Garden. Not sure why you’re tweeting us but we’re going to block you.

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