The "Miss Congeniality" Lie?

This was in Deb Peterson's column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Saturday:

"ALASKA PIPELINE: Amy Gwin, 43, of University City, grew up in Alaska and competed in the Miss Wasilla, Alaska, competition in 1984 against GOP vice presidential choice Sarah Palin. Gwin said Friday that she won the Miss Congeniality award in the competition, although Palin's Wikipedia entry says she won the contest — and the Miss Congeniality award....

Gwin said she was not surprised when Palin became the governor of Alaska, but is astonished that she got the GOP nod for vice president. Asked whether she would support Palin because she knows her, Gwin said: "I wouldn't support her if she was my very best friend. I support Obama and don't share any of her (Palin's) politics. She's very shallow." Gwin is the director of agency relations for the Rodgers Townsend advertising firm."

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/debpeterson/story/23D7A0CF8A2E3A61862574B50011DB30?OpenDocument

but very Republican

called miss congeniality....its not great..its not bad and Sandra is likable....more so than palin..they are working the low info voter.

That would make more sense -- they tend to give Miss Congeniality as a kind of consolation prize, not to the winner.

At any rate, it needs to be checked.

just what else would she lie about?

I think an Alaskan DUer mentioned that Ms. Palin is a bit of a braggart.

i thought miss congeniality was meant to be a sort of consolation prize. i would think they would automatically give it to the number two choice in the event that the number one choice actually won the entire competition.

"Miss Congeniality" is usually voted on by the contestants themselves, before the overall competition results are known.

It seems that in the CNN article quoted in Wiki, she won the Miss Congeniality prize in the STATE pageant not the Wasilla one. Too bad people who write for articles like this can not read.

Congrats Amy and thanks for sticking with your convictions!

:popcorn:

There has to be proof somewhere-- microfiche of the local newspaper during the pageant or a ribbon or trophy or records from the pageant's historian. Someone just has to do the legwork.

For what it's worth, from the little evidence I've been able to gather, I understand Palin won the "Miss Congeniality" title in the "Miss Alaska" contest, not the "Miss Wasilla" contest.