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MISS AMERICA: CORPORATE WELFARE QUEEN?

August 29, 2005

The Miss America Pageant in leaving Atlantic City in search of a better provider. The CEO of Miss America said The pageant's subsidy wasn't enough to keep its lifestyle at the level to which it would like to be accustomed:

   He told the Atlantic City Convention 
   and Visitors Authority at a board 
   meeting that the state's $725,000 
   annual subsidy to Miss America wasn't 
   enough and he wanted the agency to 
   release it from the last two years 
   of its five-year contract.

Surely this could qualify for a Grow Iowa Values grant, and an annual pageant at the Wells Fargo Arena or Principal Park - maybe between games of a double-header. How do you spell glamour? "D-E-S M-O-I-N-E-S!"

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