[AlexG]

Originally came across this on Unrealmuscle, so I'm passing it along . . .  ;D  8)

(Of course, there are some snide remarks posted by the femuscularly challenged out there, but that's only to be expected.)

Source: Is Carmen Kontur-Gronquist the Buffest Mayor in the US?

Some other links:

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

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=182409502

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[cpbell0033944]

Re the Faux Noise (sorry, slipped into my Olbermann impression there) article; what's the betting that Lorena Woods is an ugly fattie who's secretly jealous of their new, not-so-young lady mayor's hot bod? ::)

[randy guillotte]

A pretty gal with a great body. Hope she keeps it up despite the critics. I'd say she's more of an asset to her town than something to be ashamed of…

[BlackKusanagi]

I think shes fine. :3 Looks rather well for a girl her age. Others dont like it, they can go make out with Rosie O'Donnell in the corner.

[SammiChung]

Being that I live about 80-90 miles away from Arlington OR, though in a different state… we recently learned of the esteemed Mayor as her constituants and even her peers have sadly gone on the warpath to have her resign, citing not the 'display of her in her underwear' but her questionable leadership skills…I heard all this and 'then I saw the picture" in question..and I almost broke my jaw as it hit the floor… all i could think of is they don't want an amazon in charge!!

[cpbell0033944]

Being that I live about 80-90 miles away from Arlington OR, though in a different state… we recently learned of the esteemed Mayor as her constituants and even her peers have sadly gone on the warpath to have her resign, citing not the 'display of her in her underwear' but her questionable leadership skills…I heard all this and 'then I saw the picture" in question..and I almost broke my jaw as it hit the floor… all i could think of is they don't want an amazon in charge!!

Perhaps it is a sad indictment of how lazy America is that a fit, buff, inspiring woman is being hounded like this.

[Holiday]

Politics. It leaves nothing untarnished.

[demented20]

I'm going to play devil's advocate here for a moment.  I really don't think most of the uproar is over her being in good shape.  Some people might make comments, but the bigger deal is the fact that she's the mayor and she in her undies at a firehall.  That is not the most professional thing to do no matter what she looks like. I don't know if she should lose her job, but I'd have doubts about a person who would keep those pictures on her myspace AFTER she had been elected.  Your opponents and enemies are always going to look for dirt.  She made it too easy for them.

[Holiday]

Right, and all those pictures of Arnold during his bodybuilder days didn't get negative attention?

[demented20]

When I hit the post button, I knew someone was going to bring Arnold into the discussion, but this situation is different.

That was his profession.  He made his money as a pro bodybuilder decades before he ran for office.  These were candid shots of a woman in a firehall(government property).  Now if those shots had been done by a pro photographer at a modeling session or something like that, I would have no problem with it at all, but they weren't. Everybody is entitled to a private life of course, but when you get elected to office, no matter how small the town is, you are held to a different standard. Its not right and its not fair, but its the way it is.  That is one thing that keeps good people from running for office.  Nobody wants their life under a microscope.

And I still hold that her buffness has little or nothing to do with the furor.  If that lady had no visible muscle definition at all, but still had a nice body, and those shots had come out, the people in the town would still have made a stink.  This is about the dues and don'ts of being an elected official, not about how much time the lady spends in the gym.

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