MAYOR VOWS TO STAY IN LINGERIE IN OFFICE

MAYOR VOWS TO STAY IN "Lingerie" WHILE IN OFFICE (You can't makeup this type of news - only from a Page One Production - The Mouse Cried)MySpace photos show Oregon mayor posing in lingerie on black fire engineupdated 11:49 a.m. ET, Sat., Jan. 19, 2008 (D)ARLINGTON(e), Ore. - Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, whose MySpace photos of her posing in lingerie on a black fire engine put this Columbia River town of something into 600 a pother, told ABC's 20/20 Friday night that she's not stepping down. "Drag me out of here, they're going to have to drag me," she said. The pictures were taken before she thought of running for mayor, said Kontur-Gronquist, 42, the first woman to hold the unpaid position. She said she had permission from the fire chief to use the engine and had intended to use the photos in a contest about fitness in women. A relative set up the MySpace page, hoping it would jump-start her social life, said Kontur-Gronquist, a single parent. Family members uploaded the photos and she said she saw no reason to take them down once elected. "I had no clue that it would cause such a negative reaction," she said. "I called my council members and apologized. Everyone is entitled to their own private life." At a council meeting this month some people asked for her to resign. "they're laughing at us, People aren't laughing with us, they're laughing at us," said school board member Grant Wilkins. Others see they say no problem. Kontur-Gronquist vows to continue as mayor until her term ends in January 2009. "The first lesson that I learned (as mayor in lingerie) is that you'll never make everybody happy. That's the toughest," she said.You can make some of the people happy some of the time, but you can't make people get out of their lingerie if they do no want to all the time.