Earlier this week, we covered Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist's MySpace fiasco. Girly deemed it acceptable to hold public office and keep it real real skanky on the infamous social networking site. When constituents noticed that their mayor shamelessly posted pics of herself on the internet (in "not even a bathing suit"), they voted her out of office.
Meet the mayor of Arlington, Ore.: Carmen Kontur-Gronquist. She may have a constituency of merely 500 citizens, but do they really need to know what she looks like in her bra, underwear, and spray tan? (Do I, come to think of it?) Although the pictures (this is but one) were uploaded to her MySpace page before she became mayor — and curiously, also the fire department's executive secretary — "she saw no reason to remove them from the internet after taking office."
Arlington, OR, Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist was recalled by voters who disapproved of her less-than-professional pictures posted on her MySpace profile. The pictures were snapped before she took office and she stands by her right to strictly draw a line between public and private life. She says she doesn't regret posting the photos, saying that essentially that, it's my.