Tara Turnure is the Miss Washington USA 2009 (Pageants NW)
Posted on 02/20/2009 7:34:36 AM PST by Stoat
"This is a little bit of a shock when you don't know what it's going to take," said Tara Turnure, a 22-year-old Seattle native and Washington's representative at April's Miss USA pageant. "Now I'm like, 'Gosh, I leave in six weeks, and I'm still seeking sponsorship.'"
On Tuesday Turnure sent out a press release through her personal publicist, Annette Morecraft, asking for financial support – a move that took Miss Washington USA pageant director David Van Maren by surprise.
It's not that Turnure doesn't have enough to get by; her crown covers hotel, air fare, a $1,000 gown and other basics for the big event. But according to her predecessors, that's not enough to win. And in a state more excited about bike helmets than pageant crowns, finding enough money to win is a tough proposition.
"I ended up just paying for it on my own, and I'm in debt along with all the girls from the past," said Michelle Font, Miss Washington USA 2008. Font said she spent about $10,000 on makeup, cosmetics, treatments, a personal trainer, 15 new outfits for the two-week pageant run-up and trips to Puerto Rico and New York to train with her pageant coach and meet with her custom dress designer.
"I'm still paying it off," she said.
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What kitchen? What furniture?
Hello 4woodenboats :-)
I haven't been around here quite as much lately due to an increased level of silliness that I'm having to contend with at work as well as around the stoat cave, but I still try to at least check in regularly. I hope that you and yours are all happy and well? Miss Turnure is a lovely lady, isn't she? Both inside and out....here's a little snippet from her bio at her website:
In 2006, she led a team of forty high school students on a mission trip to Tijuana, Mexico where they stayed in an orphanage and helped to construct ten homes in only one week.
This entire experience is only given one sentence in her bio, and naturally reminds us of how often we're subjected to fawning, glowing accounts in the national 'media' of Jimmuh Carter's involvement with Habitat for Humanity. Not only could I easily become lost in the deep, lipid pools of her gaze but her goodness as a person would captivate me as well. 'sigh'
If you're a normal, healthy, single guy Seattle can definitely be Hell on Earth.
"sigh"
This is not the kind of thing that would interest the whack left in Seattle. She would have plenty of sponsorship if she painted herself green and said she was going to solve global warming.
She would be on the local 'news' every night, with 'reporters' breathlessly following her every move and heralding her as a superb emissary of our State.
"blech"
She's definitely an anomaly here in western Washington, where the dominant representative of The Fairer Sex is a Rosie O'Donnell lookalike who kisses her 'wife' in public and who is upset that she couldn't vote for 0bama twice.
'sigh'
Makes me want to visit Texas, where I understand sane women are the norm.
Wouldn't that be wonderful? Such a great spokeslady a Miss America would make for the Conservative cause.
Being that a large number of Washington women don’t shave and are covered in tattoos, she must feel like a martian.
It’s hard to believe that Oregon and Washington have gone so liberal, but isn’t that mainly in the larger cities, like Seattle and Portland? We have our share of them in Texas, mainly in Austin. Capitol buildings must draw them like cockroaches.
In Washington the cancer of the Left has mainly metastasized on the 'left' side of the state, west of the Cascade mountains. Eastern Washington is completely different....the few remaining normal folks here in Western Washington generally refer to it as 'the sane side of the State' :-) Sadly, the population of Eastern Washington is never a match for Seattle /Tacoma when it comes time for voting, so Seattle's hard-left, Socialist policies are usually inflicted upon the entire state. I believe that Oregon is very similar in terms of the East / West relationship.
We have our share of them in Texas, mainly in Austin.
I have heard about Austin being 'the Berkeley of Texas' and so I will definitely avoid the area, but my understanding is that much of the rest of Texas is still quite normal and coherent. Every single Texan that I've ever met has been an incredibly friendly, kind and gracious person, which really makes me want to visit one day.
Capitol buildings must draw them like cockroaches.
And the 'culture' of Government, perhaps.
In the famous but crude words of Van Halen's David Lee Roth; Teacher, I got my pencil!
(personally, it's her achievements and leadership that I find attractive...and her posture makes me wish I could do more with a brush than varnish, all clean thoughts, lol).
Looking forward to seeing you around more often, FRiend.
Fortunately, she's a Lady of Faith and so she most likely has a good social network of reasonable people. I would also imagine that her smile will cause all but the most hysterically ideologically-driven Leftist 'males' to quickly find at least a shred of a Conservative backbone if they want to have anything to do with her, so she does have that advantage as well :-)
Well, I’m not exactly a fan of bald turkeys. The 6-year old look doesn’t do it for me. Then again, I really don’t care for tats (partly why Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie ain’t on my FReeper page).
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