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For an arrangement based on women's empowerment, the past half-decade has been marred with a agonizing number of controversies and scandals for the Miss America Organization (MAO). Amongst rebranding and restructuring, the competition programme has faced allegations of misogyny, leadership changes, revoked funding and accusations of bullying.
With a name like Miss America, you lot would envision an organizational structure based on upholding the autonomous standards of America. Unfortunately, events in recent years take put a much more than tyrannical face on the organization, tarnishing its reputation. Let's accept a expect at some of the mean girls (and guys) causing some of the problems.
Sam Haskell Takes the Pageant Back to Atlantic Metropolis
After just 9 months, Mallory Hagan passed on the Miss America title in September 2013 because of schedule and location changes. In an email substitution between Sam Haskell, the pageant CEO, and his daughter, Mary Lane, the two expressed affection for Hagan.
Lane wrote, "Here's hoping you become another good one!" in reference to the upcoming Miss America 2014 broadcast. Haskell replied, "Information technology's going to be difficult to replace Mallory, but I'm hopeful!" Meanwhile, Haskell was hoping the director of development at his production company, Brent Adams, would pursue a relationship with his daughter.
While Mallory Hagan was the reigning Miss America, she spent fourth dimension at Haskell'due south dwelling house, where she met Brent Adams, who supervised almost aspects of Haskell's business and personal life. Fearing the impact a romantic relationship would take on their careers, they decided to appointment — but not until after she passed on the crown.
Haskell was vocal well-nigh his disappointment with this development and tried to convince Adams to forget well-nigh Hagan saying, "All of this can be yours. You don't need a piece of trash like Mallory. You need someone with class and coin similar my daughter."
Tammy Haddad Calls for Punishment of Dissenters
In May 2014, MAO board member Tammy Haddad wrote an email to Haskell encouraging him to avert getting riled up past former Miss America. She referred to them equally a "pile of malcontents and has-beens who blame the plan for not getting them where they think they can go."
She further commented, "fourscore% of the winners do not have the class, smarts and model for success … You have to allow them get. You don't demand them. They need you lot. We besides have to punish them when they don't appreciate what we do for them."
Kate Shindle Takes Shots at Sam Haskell
Meanwhile, in 2014, Kate Shindle wrote her memoir near her experiences as Miss America 1998. Titled Being Miss America, the book was set to exist released in September, and she pointedly targeted Haskell. She expressed her objections to his $500,000 salary, despite MAO operating at a deficit.
Shindle also defendant Haskell of blacklisting anyone who disagreed with his leadership decisions. She alleged that he would accept the national organization call the land-level pageants with a listing of people they were not allowed to associate with if they wanted to continue participating in Miss America.
Gretchen Carlson Stands Her Basis Against Haskell and Haddad
Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989, had a history of butting heads with Haskell and Haddad over her desire to modernize the organization and her refusal to attack contestants. In a 2014 email sent to former Miss Americas regarding Shindle's book, lath member Lynn Weidner asked, "Is it possible for each of yous to speak out in defense of Sam and the system?"
Carlson's reply was, "It's one thing to talk almost your own personal experience as Miss America … merely totally different to attack people individually." In response, Haddad replied privately to Haskell, "Snake, just now u have no doubts every bit to her loyalty."
Things Get Ugly and Words Are Said
In 2014, Haskell wrote an email to Lewis Friedman, writer of the Miss America telecast, requesting a script modify: "Sharon [MAO President] and I take decided that when referring to a woman who was once Miss America, we are no longer going to call her Forever Miss America … please change all script copy to reverberate that they are Former Miss Americas!"
Friedman replied, "I'd already changed "Forever" to [the C-word]. Does that work for y'all?" Haskell responded, "Perfect…bahahaha." Writing to Haskell, Friedman commented that Mallory was "preparing for her new career as a blimp in the Macy'due south Thanksgiving Parade."
Haddad Plots Against Carlson
Former Miss America Susan Powell replied to Weidner'southward e-mail with a supportive response. Haddad encouraged Haskell to use the email to annoy Carlson. "Why don't y'all read Susan Powell'southward email on the board call and say it's a shame that but 1 Miss America has come forward to offer help in whatsoever way."
Carlson wasn't featured on the Miss America broadcast, which was unusual considering her prominence. Shortly afterward that, she resigned from the MAO board, reportedly because Haskell and other board members were maligning her integrity and telling others she could not exist trusted.
Lewis Friedman Has a Death Wish
In December 2014, former Miss America 1959, Mary Ann Mobley, passed away. Lewis Friedman sent an email of condolence to Sam Haskell writing, "Then sorry to hear nearly Mary Ann Mobley." Sounds nice, right? Except the subject line read: "Information technology should have been Kate Shindle."
Haskell replied, "Thanks so much, Jitney … even in my sadness, you lot can make me express mirth … how was the Kennedy Center Honors? Honey you lot and appreciate you lot! Sam." Friedman was a long-time screenwriter for the Kennedy Middle Honors and had earned two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing for his work on them in 2010 and 2012.
Haskell & Company Grow More Little
Sam Haskell and other board members for the Miss America Arrangement connected to obsess over Mallory Hagan'southward human relationship with Brent Adams in 2015. On January 25, Lynn Weidner sent a photograph of Hagan with three other "formers" to Haskell. His response was, "OMG, she is huge … and gross … why does he want that?????"
He and then forwarded the email to hereafter board COO and President Josh Randle and other MAO board members forth with the comment, "Look at MH in this photo … OMG … Why does he want that?" Tammy Haddad replied, "Mallory is barely recognizable."
Sam Haskell, Keen or Victim?
Past the terminate of 2015, Haskell was feeling "viciously and cruelly" attacked by Hagan on a daily footing and wrote an email to Haddad, Weidner and others request for help. Haddad replied, "I am so sorry. It is ridiculous, but she is not going to end. She has no control. I remember you should hire an investigator to go something on her."
Haskell responded, "Threatening her won't work, and we already take 'enough info on her' to close down Ft. Knox … I actually think the all-time way is to shut downward her social media and convince the Formers to ostracize her."
Weidner Incriminates Herself in a Sabotage Plot
While it is unclear how Mallory Hagan was allegedly attacking Sam Haskell, Tammy Haddad called them "inflammatory character attacks." Lynn Weidner referenced cyberbullying in her December email response to the grouping.
"I wish I had an easy answer to this dilemma. If we can testify a direct connectedness between MH and specific instances of cyberbullying, nosotros could at least threaten her with a lawsuit, right? I do believe that our anti-coaching initiatives are already impacting her business and that our policy of ignoring her is driving her crazy!"
Ending Hagan'southward Career
It appears that the national Miss America Organization established a policy against the utilize of coaches to straight target Hagan's business. Afterwards her reign, Hagan was working in New York as a pageant motorcoach for the interview portion of the contest.
The national arrangement informed contestants that they would need approval from their local and state pageant directors to use a jitney. Those pageant directors were so given an breezy listing of banned coaches that included Mallory Hagan'southward proper noun on it. Earlier long, her business dried up, and she had to return abode to Alabama.
Whistleblowers or Coup Strategists
In Baronial 2017, quondam Haskell employee, Brent Adams, and former MAO board member, Regina Hopper, decided to approach Dick Clark Productions with the previously cited emails. Dick Clark Product execs, Amy Thurlow and Mark Bracco, who also held seats on the Miss America board, met with the duo and thanked them for the emails and started their own investigation.
Thurlow and Bracco approached the board with the emails expecting decisive activeness, simply they were met with ambivalence. Lewis Friedman remained the author of the Miss America pageant telecast that September.
Failure to Act
Instead of taking activity regarding the derogatory emails, the Miss America Arrangement had their law firm present Brent Adams with a cease-and-desist letter: "Your deliberate actions found a clear violation of the Non-Disclosure Agreement you knowingly and willfully entered into … the letter directed to the Chairman of the Board of Dick Clark Productions, dated September 13, 2017, noticed us of your illegal disclosure of information, which includes several internal e-mail communications."
Refusing to exist silenced, Adams and Hopper decided to contact the media with their evidence. This led to the story breaking on HuffPost in Dec.
Dick Clark Productions Deals a Crippling Accident
Meanwhile, Dick Clark Productions was disgusted by the MAO board'due south decision to support Haskell and Friedman and decided to end their agreement with the organization. In a statement issued to HuffPost, the company stated:
"Several months ago, Dick Clark Productions was fabricated aware of a portion of the emails. We were appalled by their unacceptable content and insisted, in the strongest possible terms, that the Miss America Organization board of directors conduct a comprehensive investigation and have appropriate activity to address the situation. Shortly thereafter, we resigned our lath positions and notified MAO that we were terminating our relationship with them."
The Blow Out and Backlash
In the aftermath of the leaked email scandal, Miss North Carolina 1991, Jennifer Vaden Barth, started a petition calling for the resignation of all lath members involved in the appalling behavior. Mallory Hagan forth with more than 40 former Miss Americas signed information technology.
Haskell was promptly placed on suspension pending an investigation, and within days, Haddad and Haskell resigned, constructive immediately. Josh Randle and Lynn Weidner voluntarily resigned from their positions as President and Chairman, respectively, just agreed to remain for up to 90 days to assist with the leadership transition.
Haskell'south Last Defense
Haskell defended himself: "Much of what was reported is quack, deceptive and despicable. The fabric is based on private emails that were stolen … The story is and then unkind and untrue and hurts me, my family and the stewardship of this non-profit. I was under stress from a full year of attacks past two Miss Americas…"
"This was not the CEO of an organization laughing at inappropriate jokes. This was a father whose family was beingness attacked, and a man whose character was being assassinated daily, and that dumb my judgment when responding to the inappropriate emails. For that, I deeply apologize."
Caressa Cameron Speaks Out
Erstwhile Miss Americas, such as Caressa Cameron who was crowned in 2010, noted that the arrangement'due south problems were a lack of respect and leadership and not language. Cameron revealed that but xxx days into her reign, she experienced problems with Haskell.
When she wanted to invite her previous coach to her homecoming political party, she recalled, "Sam Haskell said I was not to invite her. She could not come. He basically threw a temper tantrum, and then he didn't come." She was also prevented from participating in events related to her HIV/AIDS prevention platform.
Gretchen Carlson Seizes an Opportunity
Amongst the near vocal of the former Miss Americas, Gretchen Carlson and Kate Shindle both made themselves targets of Haskell and visitor's attacks. Both took to Twitter to call for a "thorough housecleaning of the board."
A growing consensus wanted Carlson and Shindle to have the helm and run the MAO. Carlson was elected Chairwoman of the Board of Directors on January one, 2018. Onetime titleholders filled the remaining lath openings on an interim footing while Carlson was supposed to conduct a national search for the new CEO.
Regina Hopper Gets Her Manner
On May 17, 2018, a new class of scandal hit when Gretchen Carlson installed Regina Hopper, one of the e-mail whistleblowers, as President and CEO of the Miss America Organization. State organizations and onetime Miss Americas were upset that a national search had not been conducted, as Gretchen promised. In effect, a leadership insurrection had occurred within the organization.
As part of the restructuring, Carlson pushed for a Miss America 2.0 that would no longer be a pageant but a scholarship "contest," featuring "candidates" instead of contestants. She also removed the swimsuit contest from the program.
Pushing People Out
Almost half of the ix-person MAO lath was pushed to resign after fewer than six months in the position. Sometime winners Kate Shindle and Laura Kaeppeler Fleiss resigned in June, citing "toxic culture" as the reason behind their departure.
The previously signed resignation letters from their interim roles were used against Quondam Miss North Carolina, Jennifer Vaden Barth, and Former Miss Maine, Valerie Crooker Clemens, to force their resignations. They reported to The Wall Street Journal that Carlson issued a letter stating they were trying to gain command of the organization in order to forcefulness them out.
The Bikini Has to Go
While the swimsuit competition had long been a sticking point for pageant protestors, many felt that removing it in low-cal of the #MeToo motion was a cop-out. Miss South Carolina 2011, who has recovered from an eating disorder she developed during her competition days, said:
"I think the Miss America Organization could accept done something a piddling bit different and embraced people of all shapes and sizes. To me, taking information technology abroad completely says, 'If you lot're non that size, you don't vest in a swimsuit.' We have to change people's mindsets and let them know women are cute at all shapes and sizes."
A Scholarship Competition Without Scholarship Funds
In the weeks leading upward to Miss America 2019 (held in September 2018), Miss America 1991, Marjorie Vincent Tripp, resigned every bit head of the Miss America Foundation. In role, she fabricated the decision because she claimed the scholarship coin awarded to Miss America was the foundation's responsibility.
The problem with that is 15 state directors reported their winners were refusing to sign the competition contract because of the clause that says scholarship money is "contingent upon availability of funds in any given year." Miss America 1984, Suzette Charles, said, "It's a joke. You tin can go on whatever game testify and win more than what Miss America is offering."
Cara Mund's Slip of the Natural language
In July, Miss America 2018, Cara Mund, made a comment at a New Bailiwick of jersey Dairy Queen appearance: "It'south been a tough year. There have been a lot of things I tin't control. It has felt like I wasn't always heard or utilized or appreciated."
She claims she was notified inside 72 hours of her punishment for speaking out. "I was told my last farewell as Miss America would exist cutting to a full of 30 seconds for the national telecast." She went on to write a letter revealing the torment and bullying she suffered at the hands of Carlson, Hopper and Adams.
Cara Peels Back the Curtain
In her letter to past contestants, Cara Mund asserted that "new leadership delivered an important bulletin. There will be just 1 Miss America at a time, and she isn't me." Instead, Gretchen Carlson would be the focus of all Mund's public talking points, including the claim that the "#MeToo movement started with Carlson's lawsuit."
The movement actually started with Tarana Burke in 2006 and was boosted to viral status in 2017 by Alyssa Milano. By the cease of her reign, Mund was only immune to mail service on her ain personal social media sites. MAO posted for her on all Miss America accounts.
Blaming the Victim
The system responded to Mund's claims by saying she had opportunities to give her opinion and manage her own social media accounts. Notwithstanding, they also issued the statement, "It is disappointing that she chose to air her grievances publicly, not privately."
In a Twitter response, Carlson denied the accusations of bullying and blamed Mund's letter for costing the organization a $75,000 scholarship. An independent external review attributed "miscommunications and mixed messages" every bit the heart of the issues between Mund and MAO: "Communications surrounding branding, clothing and advent were less than articulate and created defoliation and frustration."
U.s.a. Raise Objections
Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, along with xix other land pageant organizations, chosen for the resignations of Regina Hopper and Gretchen Carlson too as the entire board in a vote of "no confidence" for "lack of transparency and adherence to all-time practices."
Among their allegations were claims that leadership lied when they said ABC would not telecast the competition unless the swimsuit programme was eliminated. State directors also objected to the contract clause that gave Hopper the unilateral right to "cause whatsoever country titleholder to forfeit her state title" without due procedure or the right to appeal.
Ruling with an Iron Fist
With the defection of state organizations and a GoFundMe folio started past Jennifer Vaden Barth to raise funds to legally supersede the board, the Miss America Organization took decisive action, retaliating in a shocking fashion by swiftly terminating the licenses of seven states.
The states cutting off included Georgia, New Jersey, New York and Tennessee. The terminations required them to replace their current leadership and turn scholarship bank accounts over to the Miss America System. They also began threatening xv other state organizations with probation and were quick to praise the states that were still supporting the current MAO leadership.
Doubling Down on Poor Word Choices
A September 2019 press release for a new scholarship doubled-down on the swimsuit controversy by stating, "In reaching out to the Miss America Organization, the donor fabricated clear the important reason for the generous gift. As a young woman who wanted to compete in a local Miss America contest in the 1980s, she was discouraged past her parents because they believed 'Miss America does not expect like us, and an educated woman does not parade around in a swimsuit.'"
Cara Mund responded via Instagram, "Female person empowerment doesn't hateful insulting, alienating and discrediting the thousands of women who paved the style." Bite the manus that feeds you lot much, Cara?
Gretchen Carlson Resigns
After securing a new network partnership with NBC, Gretchen Carlson resigned from her position as board chairwoman in June 2019. She stated, "The time is ideal to give new leadership the opportunity to move frontwards with what has been accomplished."
Carlson was replaced by erstwhile South Dakota secretary of state Shantel Krebs with attorney Brenda Keith serving every bit vice-chair. Later on instituting new leadership in the terminated country organizations, all fifty states, plus D.C., were eligible to compete in the 2020 competition on December nineteen, 2019. The swimsuit and evening gown portions of the consequence are nonetheless not part of the competition.
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