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Posing in her Underwear, Oregon Mayor Stirs Debate
Town Abuzz After Mayor of Arlington, Ore., Posts Provocative Images on Web
(ABCNEWS.com) By LAURA COVERSON
Jan. 11, 2008




The citizens of a small sleepy burb in the Pacific Northwest have their knickers in a twist over an Internet posting of their mayor posing on a fire truck — in her underwear.

Arlington, Ore., is home to 500 residents and this week the usually empty town hall was bursting at the seams for the first meeting of the year.


Many in attendance showed up to complain about pictures of Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist in her black bra and panties, posted on MySpace.

"It was probably the straw that broke the camel's back," said Ronnie Miller who is working to have the mayor recalled, if she won't resign.

At the meeting Miller read a statement on behalf of "concerned citizens" that criticized the city leader's handling of several issues, like local water rates. It also took dead aim at her MySpace page.

"The recent actions of our elected mayor are an embarrassment to some of the citizens and portray an image we feel is inappropriate for an elected official. Placing provocative photos on the Internet, using an elected title, are unacceptable," read the statement.

After listening to critics, the 42-year-old Kontur-Gronquist told them she "had no comment at this time."

The mayor did not return messages left by ABC News. But in an interview with The East Oregonian newspaper she said she did not think there was anything wrong with her Internet photos.

"That's my personal life. It has nothing to do with my mayor's position," said Kontur-Gronquist.

"I'm not going to change who I am. There's a lot of officials that have a personal life, and you have people in this community who have nothing better to do than scrape up stuff like this."

The mayor's MySpace page is now blocked to all but her friends. Still, some residents of the Cumberland River Gorge town say they've seen enough.

"It's a picture of her in bra and panties on a rural protection fire truck in a rural protection fire hall," Lorena Woods said to Portland's KATU-TV. "This isn't the way we want our city to be portrayed."


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God, Arlington, OR, must be filled with the biggest Nosy Nancys and life-free losers out there, because I am one of the straightest straitlaced arrows out there and even I'm going, "Dude, BFD!" So she posed for a few cheesecake shots when she was doing some fitness competition -- so f***ing *what*? Do the people of that small town have so little going on for them in their own lives that they have the wherewithall to be shocked and dismayed by a harmless little something their mayor did before she *was* their mayor? Methinks they need to stop getting their knickers in a twist and start learning the meaning of the word "relevance" and the phrase "get a life".

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<br>God, Arlington, OR, must be filled with the biggest Nosy Nancys and life-free losers out there, because I am one of the straightest straitlaced arrows out there and even I'm going, "Dude, BFD!" So she posed for a few cheesecake shots when she was doing some fitness competition -- so f***ing *what*? Do the people of that small town have so little going on for them in their own lives that they have the wherewithall to be shocked and dismayed by a harmless little something their mayor did before she *was* their mayor? Methinks they need to stop getting their knickers in a twist and start learning the meaning of the word "relevance" and the phrase "get a life".
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Check out Dee all fired up! [:D]
I thought it was bullshit too but, sounds like there are other issues like local water rates and others that they failed to mention. Oh well, what are ya gonna do?

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