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Posted by: kwflatbed

Monday, January 07, 2008


ARLINGTON, Ore. — Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist's name is sure to be mentioned when Arlington holds its annual town meeting Wednesday.
Some of the mayor's roughly 500 constituents will want to know her views on the issues affecting the Eastern Oregon community; others will want to talk about her underwear.
The mayor's lingerie is a hot topic here, with some residents upset that she posted pictures of herself wearing only a black bra and panties on her MySpace page. She was on one of the town's fire engines.
Kontur-Gronquist's MySpace page is blocked to all but her friends, but the pictures were at one time available to all users. In an interview with the (Pendleton) East Oregonian, the mayor said she did nothing wrong and those who are offended need to get over it.
"That's my personal life," she said. "It has nothing to do with my mayor's position."
Kontur-Gronquist, who is also the fire department's executive secretary, said the photos were taken before she was elected mayor three years ago, and she saw no reason to remove them from the Internet after taking office.
"I'm not going to change who I am," she said. "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."
Lorena Woods is one of those residents who say the photos of a scantily clad mayor reflect badly on Arlington.
"It's a picture of her in bra and panties on a rural protection fire truck in a rural protection fire hall," Woods said. "This isn't the way we want our city to be portrayed."
Councilman Jeff Bufton said he's heard a lot of negative comments about the pictures, but declined to say whether the council plans to address the topic.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320588,00.html

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Posted by: KozmoKramer

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Kontur-Gronquist's MySpace page is blocked to all but her friends...

Damn! Missed it by that much 99.

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Posted by: PearlOnyx

Google works...Nothing exciting =)

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Posted by: wgciv

Abs aren't bad.

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Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

face needs a bag

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Oregon Town Meeting Likely to Discuss Mayor's Racy Lingerie Photo





ARLINGTON, Ore. — Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist's name is sure to be mentioned when Arlington holds its annual town meeting Wednesday.
Some of the mayor's roughly 500 constituents will want to know her views on the issues affecting the Eastern Oregon community; others will want to talk about her underwear.
The mayor's lingerie is a hot topic here, with some residents upset that she posted pictures of herself wearing only a black bra and panties on her MySpace page. She was on one of the town's fire engines.
Kontur-Gronquist's MySpace page is blocked to all but her friends, but the pictures were at one time available to all users. In an interview with the (Pendleton) East Oregonian, the mayor said she did nothing wrong and those who are offended need to get over it.
"That's my personal life," she said. "It has nothing to do with my mayor's position."
Kontur-Gronquist, who is also the fire department's executive secretary, said the photos were taken before she was elected mayor three years ago, and she saw no reason to remove them from the Internet after taking office.
"I'm not going to change who I am," she said. "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."
Lorena Woods is one of those residents who say the photos of a scantily clad mayor reflect badly on Arlington.
"It's a picture of her in bra and panties on a rural protection fire truck in a rural protection fire hall," Woods said. "This isn't the way we want our city to be portrayed."
Councilman Jeff Bufton said he's heard a lot of negative comments about the pictures, but declined to say whether the council plans to address the topic.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321475,00.html

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Posted by: crimsonwings

we Oregonians are so ashamed......

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Posted by: USMCMP5811

Ehhhh, not to bad........ I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers......

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Posted by: pahapoika

i say she's a fine specimen and is just showing off what the good Lord gave her

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Posted by: WaterPistola

i have to agree with the last two things said. what is that +2?

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Posted by: afd414

I heard Oregon is nice

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Arlington mayor recalled in close vote




Related Content

• Mayor in MySpace photo flap asked to resign
• Mayor's racy photos become the talk of the town

Story Published: Feb 26, 2008 at 7:15 AM PST
Story Updated: Feb 26, 2008 at 8:30 PM PST

By KATU Web Staff

ARLINGTON, Ore. - The mayor of a small Oregon town who came under fire for racy pictures of her posted on the Internet was recalled in a close vote Monday.
According to the person who spearheaded the recall drive, Ron Miller, the vote was 142 in favor and 139 against the recall of Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist.
She came under fire after she posted photos of herself posed in lingerie on a fire truck on her MySpace page.
She told KATU News Tuesday that she had no regrets about posting the photo online, and she seemed to harbor no hard feelings about the recall.
"My reaction is that the democratic process took place, and that is a good process that we have in the United States, and it's fair," she said.
There are 366 registered voters in Arlington. Dozens of them held meetings and organized after the photo was publicized, and many participated in Monday night's recall vote.
But the voters weren't really just angry about the picture, some said.
Miller said the recall vote was also about some of her decisions as mayor of the small town, located along Interstate 84 between The Dalles and Pendleton in the Columbia River Gorge. That included her management of the city golf course, where she eliminated two positions during the fall and winter. That apparently did not sit well with some of the big golfers in town.
He said Gronquist will leave office immediately.
The Arlington City Council President will take over as mayor until a new mayor is selected.
As for Gronquist, she said she is selling a poster of herself on eBay. A portion of the proceeds, she said, will go to the Arlington city ambulance company.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/15979777.htm

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Posted by: OCKS

I bet everyone wanted to be on the contract negotiation team.

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Posted by: cmagryan

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Originally Posted by wgciv Abs aren't bad.

- nice deltoids as well.

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Posted by: resqjyw0

Ousted mayor makes no apologies for lingerie photos

Her pictures were a hit on MySpace, but not with voters in her small town


The MySpace photo that took down Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the mayor of a small Oregon town.

By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 58 minutes ago

Just a few months ago, Carmen Kontur-Gronquist was many things — small-town mayor, single mother, health-care administrator and fitness buff. Today, she’s best known for one thing: being the mayor who was stripped of her office over an online picture of her in her underwear.


“Do I apologize for the photos on MySpace?” she asked rhetorically during an interview on Monday in New York with TODAY’s Meredith Vieira. “No, I don’t.”

Instead, Kontur-Gronquist is selling poster-size, autographed prints of the picture that launched a recall election — and headlines around the world — in the tiny town of Arlington, Ore.

“I had thousands of people e-mail me on MySpace and [ask] for signed photos,” the 42-year-old said. “We thought about it. We will be donating a portion back to the local ambulance service I’m very involved with and to our health district.”

In the news stories, the picture, which shows her posing on a town fire truck in an opaque black bra and matching boy-short panties, is invariably described as either “racy” or “risqué.” In reality, she pointed out, the picture doesn’t show as much as the average swimsuit.

“These people know me,” she said of the 500 people who call the town in northeast Oregon home. “They know that I was a lifeguard for four years in a string bikini much more revealing than what’s on the poster.”

The picture — and others showing her in two-piece workout outfits — was taken by a relative back in 2004 when Kontur-Gronquist was thinking about entering a fitness contest sponsored by Sports Illustrated magazine. The shots show off her washboard abs and well-toned physique.

She decided not to enter the contest and went on with her life. In 2005, she ran for and won the office of mayor of Arlington, an unpaid position, on a platform of fiscal reform.

Then, in January 2007, a relative put the pictures on a MySpace page, hoping that they would help Kontur-Gronquist’s social life.

“There was never Arlington on there,” Kontur-Gronquist said in describing the Web page. “It just said ‘United States.’ It never said I was the mayor. It never revealed where I was from.”

But someone in town saw the pictures and told someone who told someone else — and, well, you get the idea. Before long, the pictures were being printed up and distributed around town. When they hit the streets, she was on vacation, and the task of telling her about it fell to her 18-year-old daughter, Julianne, a high school senior.

“I received a phone call from my daughter a couple days before I flew home stating that city hall had received some calls stating that somebody was dispersing the pictures through town,” she said. “I immediately called each one of my council members. I did not apologize for the photo, but I did apologize for putting them in that position if they felt uncomfortable. At that point, I thought the situation was done and resolved.”

Recall vote
Instead, the “situation” had just started. She had some political enemies in town who had lined up against her over two local issues — water, and a town golf course that had been built before she took office.

Her foes formed a recall committee and succeeded in scheduling an election to see if she should continue in office. On Feb. 25, she was voted out of office by a razor-thin margin of 142 to 139.

“I think the photos were used for a trigger point for the recall committee,” she said. “That’s fine. That’s a democratic process, and that’s fair and I respect that.”

She has 35 days from the election to decide whether to ask for a recount, and she said that although she thinks there may be reason to challenge it, she hasn’t decided what to do.

“There’s about eight people now that have been confirmed that did not receive their ballots,” she explained.

Kontur-Gronquist said the pictures are still on MySpace, although now they’re protected from general view. Her main concern, she said, is her daughter and how it’s affecting her in school, where the pictures and the election have been much discussed.

Vieira asked Kontur-Gronquist how the controversy has affected Julianne.

“It’s been tough, it’s been very tough,” she replied. “This is supposed to be her remembering year, her last year in school. She’s done great, though. She’s been a great support. The recall took its process. Right now I hope that we can start focusing on her schooling, getting her into school. Where we go from there, I’m not quite sure.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23445683/

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Posted by: mpd61

What a freakin farce though really. You open up ANY magazine on the rack at the grocery store and see the same thing advertising for Milk products.
Couple that with the fact that the photo's had NOTHING to do with the town means=BS!!

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Posted by: KozmoKramer

Mama Mia...You could bounce a quarter off her tummy.. And at 42!!
She can be mayor of my town...
God knows she couldn't eff it up any worse than the Selectmen have, but at least we'd have some eye candy.

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Posted by: Sniper

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Originally Posted by USMCMP5811 Ehhhh, not to bad........ I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers......

BRO.... She's got the same AMBER light bar as you !!!!!!! hahahaa

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Posted by: NewEngland2007

Positively inspirational body!

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