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A Cub Scout questioned a Colorado state senator at a meeting. Now hes been kicked out of his den.
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/18/cub-scout-kicked-out-questioned-senator-vicki-marble/By KIERAN NICHOLSON | knicholson@denverpost.com |
The Denver PostPUBLISHED: October 18, 2017 at 8:47 pm | UPDATED: October 19, 2017 at 7:46 am
A Cub Scout in Broomfield has been kicked out of his den, allegedly for asking pointed questions of a Colorado state senator at meeting organized by the Boy Scouts.
Eleven-year-old Ames Mayfield, a fifth-grader at Prospect Ridge Academy and a Scout for five years, on Oct. 9 asked Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, questions about gun control, and about comments Marble made at a 2013 legislative hearing on poverty about mortality rates among African-Americans.
The boy’s mother, Lori Mayfield, on Wednesday said Ames was kicked out of his den, or Scout group, as a result.
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Ames’ questions, and other Scouts’ questions, were recorded and posted on YouTube by Mayfield in a video titled “Vicki Marble denies chicken-gate.”
“I was astonished that you blamed black people for poor health and poverty because of all the chicken and barbecue they eat,” Ames said to Marble at the Scout meeting.
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