Posted on 01/21/2006 10:34:53 AM PST by oxcart
Miss Nevada is stirring up some controversy over her comments about Yucca Mountain. It happened Thursday when 23 year old Crystal Wosik was interviewed by judges.
According to the pageant director, the judges asked Wosik what she thought of Yucca Mountain. She told them "it has to go someplace and that Yucca Mountain was the best built facility in the country." Then a judge said what would happen if people could die? She, according to the pageant director, answered "we just have to take one for the team."
That drew a pretty direct response from Peggy Maze Johnson of Citizen Alert. Johnson is an outspoken critic of the nuclear waste repository planned about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Johnson said, "Before she gets up there and starts representing the state of Nevada, she needs to find out more about what the issues are. Instead, she's shooting from the hip with a ridiculous statement that feeds into many people's idea that Miss America contestants are bimbos".
News 3 contacted the Miss Nevada organization to try and get a direct response from Crystal Wosik. Wosik will be competing in the Miss America Pageant this Saturday night at the Aladdin here in Las Vegas.
No kidding, she sounds like my kind of girl. I wonder if she's hot?
Yes, good for her! Sounds like she's got a good head on her shoulders, but the e.wackos don't like it.
The old 'what-if' gotcha. What if aliens arrive tomorrow? What if we all die from a biological terrorist attack? She should have more artfully dodged the question, but I do like her response.
Anything that gets sealed in there isn't coming out.
Hey, bozo, unless Nevada has made some tremendous strides in auto safety that I've missed, I'd be willing to bet that a number of people have died just driving past the site.
hehe
Since when was becoming Miss Navada is a political office? She stated an opinion and she seemed fairly well informed. Not giving the PC answer says she is a braver lady then the ones who do.
I think I'll take this over someone named Peggy Maze Johnson.
I'm guessing that she won't be seen burning a flag, or at a Hillary or Kerry rally.
I guess those events would be one and the same upon further thought.
Miss Nevada appears to have her head screwed on correctly, yet there is still at least one bimbo prominently featured in this article.
"I like this lady."
What guy doesn't get a little excited, when a pretty girl says shes "willing to take on for the team".
Yeah. She looks a lot different in these two pictures, but pretty cute. I think I like the brown hair, though.
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