Carmen Kontur Gronquist is the Mayor of Arlington,and is now in trouble for her racy MySpace lingerie photos. Read more details below.
Carmen Kontur Gronquis upset the residents of Arlington because she posted pictures, wearing only a black bra and panties on her MySpace page. She was on one of the town’s fire engines. The MySpace page was blocked and only available to her friends, but the pictures were at one time available to all MySpace 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.
“It’s a picture of her in bra and panties on a rural protection fire truck in a rural protection firehall,” said Lorena Woods, a longtime resident. “This isn’t the way we want our city to be portrayed.”
She responded:
That my personal life,” she said staunchly. “It has nothing to do with my mayor’s position.” She said the photos were taken before she was mayor, but saw no reason to remove them from the Internet after she took 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 … and if this is all they have to do, there is nothing they can do about it.” The mayor also refused to provide a fuller context about the photos. “I’m not going to answer that,” she said, seconds before hanging up the phone.
Carmen 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.
The Councilman Jeff Bufton mentioned that he heard a lot of negative comments about the pictures, but declined to say whether the council plans to address the issue.
As soon as we will locate the racy lingerie pictures we will post them here.
Carmen Kontur Gronquis upset the residents of Arlington because she posted pictures, wearing only a black bra and panties on her MySpace page. She was on one of the town’s fire engines. The MySpace page was blocked and only available to her friends, but the pictures were at one time available to all MySpace 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.
“It’s a picture of her in bra and panties on a rural protection fire truck in a rural protection firehall,” said Lorena Woods, a longtime resident. “This isn’t the way we want our city to be portrayed.”
She responded:
That my personal life,” she said staunchly. “It has nothing to do with my mayor’s position.” She said the photos were taken before she was mayor, but saw no reason to remove them from the Internet after she took 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 … and if this is all they have to do, there is nothing they can do about it.” The mayor also refused to provide a fuller context about the photos. “I’m not going to answer that,” she said, seconds before hanging up the phone.
Carmen 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.
The Councilman Jeff Bufton mentioned that he heard a lot of negative comments about the pictures, but declined to say whether the council plans to address the issue.
As soon as we will locate the racy lingerie pictures we will post them here.