BDN editor married to Collins staffer

[MaineDem]

Can you say "conflict of interest", boys and girls? No wonder they were so eager to denounce the tracker.

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Yesterday, we learned that Bridget Woodward--wife of Bangor Daily News Executive Editor Mark Woodward--is (or recently was) on the staff of Sen. Collins.

But further sleuthing here at Collins Watch has raised a question of equal, if not greater interest: Was Woodward himself Sen. Collins' press secretary in the mid-1990s?

Apparently so, according to an old column posted on the website of one-time Maine senate candidate Jean Hay Bright.

I have no reason to doubt Bright, but I've left a message on Woodward's voice mail, in an effort to confirm the details.

So, what role does Woodward have in formulating BDN's pro-Collins editorial stances? What, if any, disclosure does the paper provide readers about his past work for the junior senator? About his wife's current role in Collins' office?

http://collinswatch.blogspot.com/2007/08/woodward-and-woodward.html

[Maine-ah]

1. I don't read BDN, but I'm not surprised

good find MaineDem, thanks for posting. :hi:

[lazyriver]

2. Verrrrrry interesting.

I wonder if this is why none of my LTTE's critical of Collins and her conjoined twin Lieberman ever get published. Ya' think?