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A Chicken in Every Crackpot

Nevada has a nasty habit of nominating people who look good, but don't stand up to closer scrutiny... Sue Lowden is the latest one.

Among Democrats, two 2004 candidates for higher office were convicted of taking bribes from strip clubs while serving on the county council in Las Vegas. The Republicans actually elected an incompetent accused molester Governor and an admitted adulterer/accused influence-peddler as Senator.

And now there's chicken lady:

The former Suzanne Pluskoski began competing in beauty contests (recorded on the Internet) while enrolled at American University, in Washington DC. She won Miss District of Columbia USA in 1971 (at 19), then became a top 12 semi-finalist 5/22/71, in the Miss USA 1971 pageant in Miami, hosted by spay & neuter champion Bob Barker & Lassie's mom, June Lockhart.

Sometime during college there was a name change to Suzanne Plummer before becoming Miss Cape May County, then Miss New Jersey (at 21) in 1973, where she won the preliminary swimsuit competition (36 1/2-23-36, coral colored) and became 2nd runner-up (September 2, 1973) to Miss America 1974.

She told a reporter: "I have never been stereotyped as a dizzy blonde." And it was true... THEN. She graduated AU magna cum laude with a BA in elementary education (in 1974) and went on to get an MA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey.

But by the time she had the education, she also had an itch for stardom.

Suzanne moved from New Jersey to Las Vegas in the late '70's and the teaching career vanished completely.

She auditioned as a newsreader for local TV (Vegas was comparatively tiny back then) and became a local host for the MDA telethon starting in 1978.

She became Suzanne P. Lowden (in 1983 at age 31) through marriage to a businessman with connections in Republican politics. In 1992, after having 4 kids, Sue Lowden ran for the Nevada State Senate in a heavily Democratic district. She won that campaign by defeating the Nevada State Senate Majority Leader, and was more recently chosen by Nevada's current Republican Governor to be chairwoman of the state party.

She's had a lot of work done.

Nobody can spend 32+ years living in the Mojave and look like her at age 58 without being buffed, lifted, tucked & 'toxed. And now she needs more work to overcome the inanity of her recent pronouncements that have earned her title: "The Chicken Lady."

But this is Nevada, where dumbass voters often fall for someone who looks good... But only from afar, and only for a while.