‘Chicken Causes Latino and Black poverty’ comment elicits response
By Peter Marcus, The Colorado Statesman
Republican state Sen. Vicki Marble’s comments this week linking poor health within black and Latino communities to diets including barbecue chicken has led to Democrats declaring open season on Republicans.
For Democrats and critics of the Republican Party, her poorly chosen words offer the secret recipe for a “finger-lickin’” opportunity to pounce on a party that they have continually accused of being antiquated, disconnected and insensitive to minorities.
There is widespread agreement that Marble’s monologue during the interim Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force meeting on Wednesday was at best “careless.”
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