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Subject: Ladies/EDs-GO TO THE MEDIA-IT’S TIME FOR PUBLIC RIDICULE AND AWARENESS

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Date Posted: 21:26:49 07/09/21 Fri
In reply to: Be willing to walk away, or Choose to be Used. 's message, "Contestants- You are the only ones with the leverage to change Miss Ohio." on 17:14:24 07/07/21 Wed

I truly commend each one of you that chose to address Steven and the Board, regarding the disgraceful actions that occurred at the 2021 pageant. I cannot imagine what that experience was like, nor, the amount of courage that it took to have to address them, and look in the eyes of those ‘leaders’ that have held the keys to all of your hopes and dreams….and at the same time, the amount of anger and disappointment that must have run through your blood, KNOWING that despite your hard work, those same ‘leaders’ completely created an unfair and uneven playing field YET AGAIN, for you all.

While questionable foul play has been occurring for YEARS, this is the FIRST time that you all have access to PROOF of historical and financial interactions that have, and continue, to transpire between a MAJOR program sponsor and the new Queen! This is not ‘sour grapes’ or ‘gossip’….this is real, blatant cheating that occurred….and the public MUST BE MADE AWARE.

Your collective voice and power, by way of inactivity for the 21-22 season sends the loudest message to those cheaters that pretend to lead. MAO is as sneaky as each state, so while I would not hold your breath for anything to occur at that level, going to the media and creating a public forum/attention to surround this ‘pay to play’ situation, is the only way you can hope to see change.

As a former local titleholder, and one that wished and worked SO hard tp see my dreams unfold, I know that taking this step is asking a lot of you. What will happen? Will I be ‘blackballed’ in the future? As an ED, will I lose my franchise? I get it. BUT, why would any candidate or ED wish to put all of their heart, soul, money, and time into such a blatant and corrupt program any longer? With Steven and his inside cronies, NOTHING will change.

The situation is so twisted and SO wrong…..and to know that you have the power collectively to take this forward to the media/public, perhaps is the greatest action you can take for our beloved Miss Ohio Scholarship Program. The chance for investigation, (particularly due to the dirty exchange of money/power), is quite possible. You can’t play with ‘donations/non-profit organizational illegal activity, nor should the town of Mansfield that has given SO MUCH to all of us, be positioned to NOT know the truth any longer.

Ladies/EDs….if there has ever been a time to do the right thing for all of you and for the future of this program, NOW is the time. Do the RIGHT THING…..

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[> [> Subject: The local EDs should go to the media. Ladies that have aged out should go to the media. Past candidates that don’t plan to continue in Miss Ohio or any other pageant should go to the media. Ladies who want to compete elsewhere should not! No other pageant is going to want to crown a girl seen as a troublemaker even if she’s trying to do the right thing. But if most of the candidates that are still eligible quietly go elsewhere (USA or Volunteer) & the local EDs struggle to find quality girls to compete, Miss Ohio gets far less money from the candidates & attendance is down even further than it already is then something will happen one way or the other. I don’t even know that I think MA will be around much longer. I’d be shocked if it makes it 5 more years & anything before that would be no surprise. 2.0 & the people on the board then ruined MA. There’s no coming back now sadly.

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Date Posted: 10:33:55 07/11/21 Sun

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[> [> [> Subject: Advising competing girls not to speak up to a money rigged pageant because you think they'll get blackballed in another system is wrong. Trust me, the Volunteer system knows how corrupt the MAO is-- that's what caused its inception!
Author: and they ALL know of Steven and Sam's schnanigans [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 15:15:19 07/11/21 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Volunteer may know & USA may know but that doesn't mean they want a troublemaker. They are happy to have girls that leave Miss Ohio & go to them but not with a troublemaker label on them. They're adults they can make their decisions but I'm entitled to my opinion
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 19:17:33 07/11/21 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: There's good trouble and troublemakers and you'd think adults in those positions could tell the difference. Why would you want to be part of a system that would blackball you because you rightly stood up for yourself? Isn't that the whole problem here, nobody with the courage to stand up to clear croneyism?
Author: You can have your opinion, but it encourages cowardlyness [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 10:23:49 07/12/21 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Speaking up and standing up to OBVIOUS disrespect is not causing trouble.
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 23:39:22 07/12/21 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: I don't disagree with you at all whatsoever but if girls want to continue in Miss Ohio then they have to play by the board's unspoken rules
Author: No name [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:12:45 07/14/21 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: WTF would any girl stay in this program unless they are too inexperienced an/ or naive to realize they will NOT be competing for Miss Ohio, only funding it for Steven's girl.
Author: And her family better be wealthy or she needs to get a sugar daddy. [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:54:36 07/14/21 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ]