January 14, 2008 5:18 AM

Greetings from Pleasantville...now quit your whining, willya?

Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist — who created a stir with her decision to post a photograph of herself, clad only in a black bra and panties, on her MySpace page — calmly listened to and then ignored calls for her resignation. Nearly 30 citizens stood with Ron Miller Wednesday night as he addressed Kontur-Gronquist at a council meeting that attracted far more than the usual number of constituents. Miller listed five complaints against the mayor — the first four dealing with city business and, lastly, the photo of the scantily clad mayor on a town fire truck. “The apparent lack of city leadership has become so blatant we feel a change needs to be made,” he said. Miller said if the mayor was unwilling to resign, the group would proceed with a recall petition. Kontur-Gronquist, 42, who is also the fire department’s executive secretary, has said the photos were taken before she was elected mayor three years ago, and she saw no reason to remove them from her MySpace page after taking office.

Ah, can you hear it? If you hold still and the wind is blowing just right, you can hear it wafting on the breeze. Yep, it’s the dulcet yet whiny tones of the (not at all rare) Red-breasted Self-Righteous Small-Town Pinhead, a hardy avian known for it’s imperviousness to reason or rationality. It’s natural habitat seems to be anywhere that someone does something a little out of the box or that they think smacks of - GASP!!! - indecency.

OK, so the mayor of Arlington, OR, posted a “racy” (depending on your interpretation) photo of herself on her MySpace page before she become mayor. And now some of Arlington’s fine, upstanding citizens are in high dudgeon because…well, frankly because they’re never going to get a piece of that action. From where I sit, Mayor Kontur-Gronquist is really only guilty of being pretty hot, and I imagine that inspires a fair amount of jealousy among Arlington’s nosy ninnies. Men want her, and women fear her. So she looks good in her underwear…big deal; it’s not as if she’s fellating a horse. She’s an attractive woman in phenomenal physical condition. Does the MySpace picture speak to her lack of personal morality or her inability to carry out the functions required of a small-town mayor? Of course not. What it does do is provide ammunition to Arlington’s good, God-fearing White Folk…of whom you really have to wonder if they’ve ever had any fun in their lives.

So the mayor showed a little skin. Hey, anyone who looks that good and takes care of herself the way she obviously does should be proud of her body. Personally, I find nothing obscene or inappropriate in the photo. So she’s a good-looking woman with a great body; since when is that a crime??

If a photo surfaces of her caught in flagrante delicto with livestock, then come back and talk to me. Until then, please take your bad, self-righteous self elsewhere. You’re dragging me down.

NEXT!!!

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