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New Miss Seattle was 'annoyed' with us

March 4, 2012 @ 5:34 pm (Updated: 2:47 pm - 3/5/12 )

Nineteen beautiful, young women competed for the title of Miss Seattle over the weekend. The winner is Jean-Sun Hannah Ahn, a violinist and former Miss Phoenix.

She will compete in the Miss Washington Pageant this summer. Maybe by then she'll enjoy the weather because she wasn't happy with the city, or Seattle residents, in December.

She tweeted, "Ugh can't stand cold rainy Seattle and the annoying people."

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On her Twitter feed @MissPhoenix 2010, she frequently uses the word "annoyed," so perhaps it's just her favorite word. There are other unflattering comments on her page too. She should reconsider the way she's uses social media if she wants to be a public figure. The tweets above were from December of 2011. A friend of hers tells me she had not decided to enter the Miss Seattle Scholarship competition at that time.

UPDATE:

Miss Seattle apologizes for the tweets, in a comment on this blog.

"I apologize for the negative connotations towards the city of Seattle and its people or any other postings when I wasn’t in a positive place. Those tweets by no means reflect my actual opinions or views, I was simply having “one of those days” and sincerely apologize to anyone who took those statements offensively," says Ahn.

She is a Seattle native, and says she truly loves Seattle "with all of my heart and the support these past months in the Seattle community has just been indescribable."

"I realize now what a mistake it is to post things when your not in a good mood," she writes.

She deleted several unflattering tweets and renamed her account last night to reflect her new title, @MissSeattle2012.

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Photo by Dave Barksdale, of Depoe Barksdale Studios

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  • peterpan wrote...
    ***rain***
    March 4, 2012 9:19 pm
    It's ok to hate the weather...well who doesn't...we all have a bad day! but to generalize that everyone is annoying?? Well I think she is annoying and not pretty at all!!
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  • Kking wrote...
    really???
    March 4, 2012 9:39 pm
    Who are to say she shouldn't generalize that everyone is annoying and then turn around and call her annoying. Not to mention your opinions on her looks. That doesn't really make you any better, does it?
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  • laurenmarieporter wrote...
    peterpan..
    March 5, 2012 8:47 am
    does it make you feel superior to put others down behind a computer screen?
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  • hpygolkyone wrote...
    Uh Oh!.............
    March 4, 2012 9:32 pm
    She gets my vote for: Miss Spin Control 2012.
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  • scuddrunner wrote...
    What are the judges thinking?
    March 4, 2012 9:55 pm
    I wonder what the judges think about you after voting you to represent the great city of Seattle?
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    Miss
    March 4, 2012 10:11 pm
    High Maintenance
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  • laurenmarieporter wrote...
    ohhh ron_spins
    March 5, 2012 8:49 am
    Who says high maintenance is a bad thing? She takes care of her self and has high standards-girls like Jean can be high maintenance...Ron_Spins, why do you care?
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    @laurenmarieporter wrote....
    March 5, 2012 11:22 am
    Where did I say it was a bad thing? The better question is WHY DO YOU CARE?
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  • SteveBT wrote...
    Comments can hurt you
    March 4, 2012 10:40 pm
    Comments can seem one way, but mean another, we have seen that many times.
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  • Vlastimil wrote...
    NoElephants, you are trash
    March 5, 2012 12:43 am
    She most likely ran into someone like you! That's some venomous contempt. I shouldn't be surprised, especially coming from an uppity, condescending, knuckle dragging, progressive.
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  • Citizen of Krazy Town wrote...
    Puget Sound people are nice and un-friendly
    March 5, 2012 12:46 am
    After 20 years in the region, I can agree that PS people are passive aggressive, disingenuous and back talking. Folks here would put the stereotypical Maine residents to shame.
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  • EmitWatsonKBO wrote...
    The new class of migrant workers
    March 5, 2012 1:32 am
    The uproar over the comments made by the new Miss Seattle 2012, Jean-Sun Hannah Ahn, made about the Jet City made me want to explore the motives that would cause an ex-Miss Phoenix to move to Seattle. The bottom line is economic. There's a new sub-culture of migrant workers out there. Being a migrant worker is not confined to the agricultural or restaurant industries any more(or Korean convenience stores, nail parlors, or teriyaki joints). Young, attractive women are being forced out of their home areas, forced to hit the road like a modern-day Joad family to seek their fortunes(and titles) in faraway areas. Just imagine the heartbreak that poor little Jean-Sun must have felt when after the heartbreaking drive from Phoenix, she was turned away at the State Of California inspection station in Daggett, Ca. like the Joads in "Grapes Of Wrath". I can imagine the inspector looking at her through mirrored Ray-Bans, and saying those fateful words "Oh, we don't care about fresh fruit anymore, but we've got enough local babes here in The Golden State, so you better just move along....try Oregon, Nevada, maybe Washington or Idaho......there's nothing for you here!!" The policies of Arizona's immigration policies are used in reverse for hard-bodied "chicks" like poor little Jean-Sun, having to emigrate to find semi-fame far away from the Malls of her native land. Like the National Lampoon cartoon in the article "The Day The Animals Discovered Death" (Jan '73- the "We'll Kill This Dog" issue), "Such is the fate of wild poodles". I'm reminded of the lyrics of Woody Gutrie's song "Do Re Mi": "California's a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see; But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi."
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  • Jeff Schroeder wrote...
    What exactly do these Women do...
    March 5, 2012 5:09 am
    Really Kids...Aren't we all a little old for Princesses and and their Fabio's in shining armor?
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Can you blame her?
    March 5, 2012 5:16 am
    ...
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