You take your clothes off, lie on the ground and they will roll their wheelchairs across your back.
Posted on 04/01/2005 6:20:11 AM PST by KidGlock
Today: April 01, 2005 at 6:14:20 PST
Wis. Wheelchair Pageant Winner Loses Crown
ASSOCIATED PRESS
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin has been stripped of her title because pageant officials say she can stand - and point to a newspaper picture as proof.
Janeal Lee, who has muscular dystrophy and uses a scooter, was snapped by The Post-Crescent newspaper standing among her high school math students.
"I've been made to feel as if I can't represent the disabled citizens of Wisconsin because I'm not disabled enough," Lee said Thursday.
Lee, 30, of Appleton, had planned to go to the national pageant with her younger sister, who also has muscular dystrophy and won the competition in Minnesota.
Students at Kaukauna High School, where Lee teaches, raised $1,000 for her trip to the national pageant.
The move by the state pageant officials, led by coordinator Gina Hackel, is supported by the national board.
Candidates for the crown have to "mostly be seen in the public using their wheelchairs or scooters," said Judy Hoit, Ms. Wheelchair America's treasurer. "Otherwise you've got women who are in their wheelchairs all the time and they get offended if they see someone standing up. We can't have title holders out there walking when they're seen in the public."
Hackel said Lee should have been aware of the rules.
The crown now goes to first runner-up Michelle Kearney of Milwaukee, who will travel to New York in July for the national pageant.
I wonder how they do the swimsuit competition?
Now that is funny!
IIRC;this is the woman who traveled the entire state, stopping at small businesses, then later filing ADA lawsuits against them for non- compliance.
Was she nude?
Come on folks, beauty queen and no pictures? Stop violating the rules... POST THE PICS.
Already posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375332/posts
bttt
You take your clothes off, lie on the ground and they will roll their wheelchairs across your back.
I take it all back...they are beautiful!
I simply think that women can be beautiful, in a wheelchair or not.
Is it me or does discrimination seem more prominent within minority groups?
That's right! Tell it to Clarance Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, TrueBlackMan, and the rest of the black Republicans. You don't toe the party line or fit the model - no bennies for you! Next!
De dum de dum.
IIRC;this is the woman who traveled the entire state, stopping at small businesses, then later filing ADA lawsuits against them for non- compliance.
Correct. Gina Hackel is the 2004 MS Wheelchair Wisconsin who has filed the lawsuits. Coincidentally ; ), she works as an 'access consultant' for a company that advises companies on ADA compliance. Name of that company is 'Compliance Alliance'. If you see their vans in the neighborhood, you might want to go into lockdown mode.
It's not your imagination.
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