When eleven-year-old Cub Scout Ames Mayfield learned that his den was holding an event where cub scouts would be encouraged to ask questions of Colorado state senator Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, he spent days doing research on her views and the issues. He came prepared with two questions, one on gun control and one on comments she’d made at 2013 legislative hearing on poverty and mortality rates among African-Americans.
A few days after the event, where he did, indeed, ask his questions, he got the news that a den leader felt the questions were too pointed and had kicked him out of the troop.
His mother says that the only thing she told him to do was to be respectful and preface any question with “with all due respect.”
I’ve read five articles about this today. The best, most complete is this editorial from the Denver Post, dated 10/16/2017, but it seems to have been written before Cub Scout Ames Mayfield was notified that he’d been kicked out:
Colorado Sen. Vicki Marble’s finger-lickin’ lie
This one is far more “soft ball” but was written after he got the news.
A Cub Scout questioned a Republican state senator at a meeting. Now he’s been kicked out of his den.
Perhaps it’s time for a new Scout badge in sycophancy.
Update: Tortmaster pointed out that the photos in the second article include a photo of her standing over him in a stance that (to use my words) would make Ebenezer Scrooge look like a sweetheart.