Outrage as Miss US Virgin Islands is won by gal with no ties to the territory (Trump mentioned)

VI Consortium ^ | 8/18/19 | VI Consortium Staff

[Vendome]

[Yo-Yo]

Rulz!

[Rebelbase]

Some people can’t escape being the eternal victim.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I once had an employee who was related to Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, Miss America, 1988.

Story was that Kaye Lani was working as a nurse in a Toledo hospital. She had tried and failed three times to win the Miss Ohio pageant.

She was 24, which is when you turn into a pumpkin in the pageant business. Staring at her last opportunity it dawned on her that the track record proved that it was impossible to win Miss Ohio unless you were a blonde.

Since Toledo borders Michigan she moved a couple miles north and entered their pageant. She won, and the rest is history.

So carpetbagging is not exactly new in this biz.

[Reno89519]

Ask them that?

[FreedomPoster]

Magic 8 Ball says Very Doubtful.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Many US Virgin Islanders were saying that the true VI women were put in the back of the stage (as you can see by the photo you posted above) and that the women with no ties to the territory were placed in the front. It seems to be "White in front" and "Black in back".

Not very good optics....

[2banana]

Kinda like when Hillary ran for senate in NYS?

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

See #27. Thanks for posting the photo.

[Kickass Conservative]

Two seconds. That might be an FR “great minds” record.

[Magnum44]

Well I thought this earlier but just figured someone else would post it first...

[rigelkentaurus]

Denmark - here is a deal for you. PR and USVI for Greenland. Even up trade.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

It's actually somewhat alluded to the article, Magnum:

"One particular scene cut deep among some locals: as the top five finalists were called forward, the local girls remained at the back."

[Tax-chick]

I think the one on the far right is prettiest.

[Getready]

Cheating at a beauty pageant? Isnt anything sacred anymore?

[devane617]

The dark haired petite cutie in the front center has a serious bottom.

[know.your.why]

I personally think there should be a No Makeup contest instead of a Mo Makeup contest.

[1Old Pro]

Apparently a six-month residency, if only on paper, suffices. An apartment lease.

Sounds stricter than running for Congress. Hillary was a NYS Senator and she is from Chicago an Arkansas. Many Congresscritters seem to move into the district to run.

[DannyTN]

Your support of the rules is refreshing!!

[Wuli]

It IS an industry, and girls bent on getting into the top tier, and ambitious enough, only need to learn the minimal rules in different venues and then doing what it takes enter multiple contests until they either give up the quest or win.

The pageant owners are the pageant owners, not local residents anywhere, and it is the pageant owners not “votes of local residents” that determine the entrant rules in any locale.

Now then, it is possible, in any locale, state or territory, if they don’t like a pageant’s rules because they do not protect the locals enough, they can, legally, not allow a pageant’s operations in their area.

On the other hand, should they do so, they could be hurting their own locals, as their own locals could become unable to enter a pageant they would like to enter.

I actually do sympathize with the VI locals. However, if no laws or rules were broken, they were most unfortunate in not understanding the result they saw was possible, like it or not.