That was the take-away from Wednesday's State of the State address to the Legislature, an annual feel-good pageant that includes all statewide elected officials and the California Supreme Court.
That said, Mr. Bauer also realizes the importance of making a good showing on pageant night, and said he intends to put the telecast under a microscope to see what can be done to raise it a notch.
The pageant was good times, all right.
Mr. Renneisen said that he was merely trying to maintain the pageant's good name.
"It took something like this to make the Miss America pageant look good to me," Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, said in an interview last night.
Despite Miss Harman's affirmations of good will yesterday, the state pageant directors were not mollified.
Is crowning any girl -- a still transitioning or fully transitioned transgender woman, an Arab, a Muslim, or none of these categories -- to become a high school or college homecoming queen, or beauty pageant winner a good thing?
On June 5, Gretchen Carlson, chair of the board of directors of the Miss America Organization (MAO) and winner of the 1989 pageant, announced on "Good Morning America" that the beauty contest would eliminate its swimsuit segment and "revamp" its evening wear portion in order to make the parade of beauties a "competition" rather than a pageant.
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The conflict has been good for business, too; both pageants have been attracting record numbers to their regional contests.
Because that's the image that women give us and the beauty pageant is a really good platform for us".
