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Oregon Mayor Loses Clothes, Respect

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RIPPLE EFFECT Kontur-Gronquist
With only 524 residents, it's no wonder it took the small Oregon town of Arlington three years to find racy pictures of Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist on her now private MySpace page. Now that they have, they aren't amused.

"This isn't the way we want our city to be portrayed," one resident told the AP. Council Member Alice Courtney worried about the message it was sending children. "It gives the impression that it's just okay to do whatever you feel like doing, whenever," she said.

The pictures in question show a remarkably buff Kontur-Gronquist posing seductively on a fire truck. Asked the circumstances surrounding the photo shoot, the mayor told a reporter to can it and hung up on him. Must have been an ugly breakup.

For her part, Kontur-Gronquist has no shame. "I'm not going to change who I am," she said. She added that she saw no reason to remove the pictures, which were taken before she was elected mayor. For that matter, neither do we, mainly because we're pretty certain she'd kick our asses if we didn't agree with her. Check out those guns!

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