Miss California Director Shanna Moakler Resigns Following Carrie Prejean Controversy
Just when you thought the Miss California Saga had come to an end: Former Miss USA Shanna Moakler has resigned as executive director of the California State Pageant Organization, which runs the Miss California and Miss Teen California beauty contests, one day after after Miss Universe Organization owner Donald Trump allowed Miss California Carrie Prejean to keep her crown following a semi-nude photo scandal.
In statement released on Wednesday, Shanna says she simply can’t go on supporting the organization following Trump’s controversial decision to let Carrie Prejean keep her Miss California crown despite the young woman’s admission to taking semi-nude and topless photos as recently as last year.
“Since the press conference yesterday, I had a chance to think about what has taken place, and I feel that at this time it is in my best interest to resign,” Shanna says in the statment. “I cannot with a clear conscious move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization when I no longer believe in it, or the contracts I signed committing myself as a youth.”
She continued, “I want to be a role model for young woman (sic) with high hopes of pageantry, but now feel it more important to be a role model for my children. I am sorry and hope I have not let any young supporters down but wish them the best of luck in fulfilling their dreams.”
After yesterday’s press conference in New York City, Carrie, 21, announced that she’ll be launching a campaign opposing gay marriage with the National Organization for Marriage. Shanna, on the other hand, announced that she’s appearing in a new ad supporting gay rights.
Written by Castina on May 13th, 2009 | Tagged as: Miss California Carrie Prejean,Shanna Moakler
On May 13th 2009, justgroovy wrote:
Role model for her children?? How, by disrespecting the decision of a person in authority by throwing a hissy fit and quiting when things didn't go her way? By embracing a radical social change that has been rejected by the majority of voters in her state? By breaking her employment and promotional contracts with Trump? Me thinks the pot calls the kettle black…in other words: HYPOCRISY; there's enough to go around.
On May 13th 2009, Sue Gold wrote:
I guess Trump will follow the money-controversey trail when it comes to Prejean. Anything that can bring attention to a dying show. Ms. Prejean is a total hypocrite. She says she is a born again Christian yet she is posing nude, has breast implants, and earns her money by walking around in a bikini. What kind of person says she is a Christian yet does all this? Wasn't she happy with the body God gave her? What kind of message is she sending to young Christian girls? Pose nude and change your body and you too will be saved? I think not! What a shame we cannot have a more positive role model for our young girls.
On May 14th 2009, MCWAY wrote:
Prejean hardly posed "nude". Heck, you see more skin in Cosmo, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated or the swimsuit issues of muscle magazines like FLEX.
The only hypocrisy and lying being done here is by both Moakler and Lewis. Pardon my intentional bad grammar, but this ain't got NOTHING to do with them pictures. It's all about the gay "marriage" issue. Lewis is gay; Moakler supports gay "marriage" and both were planning to do a PSA on "Diversity", using the paegant as a launching pad to counter Proposition 8 in California.
Of course, it's a bit hard to do that, when your current beauty queen ain't down with the program, and, to top it all off, she's doing ads with the OPPOSITION (Focus on the Family, National Organization of Marriage).
Moakler let Hilton, Musto, and others rip Prejean apart and drag her family through the mud, without sticking up for her once, and now she wants to bleat about having a "clear conscience" or being a role model? PLEASE!!!
If Prejean supported gay "marriage", she could have done XXX bisexual porn, and Moakler wouldn't have utttered a peep about Prejean's needing to resign, espeically given that Moakler got BOOTY-BUTT-NAKED for Playboy.
It's just another case of gay activists and their sympathizers on the left, crying like spoiled brats when they don't get their way.