On-The-Job Training?
The sudden announcement from the Salt Lake City Mayor's office that spokesman Cliff Lyon was only a temporary volunteer sit-in until the mayor can find a permanent replacement may have a rest-of-the-story tint that needs some explanation.
When Lyon first took over for Deeda Seed, fired for alleged incompetence, there was no mention that he was volunteer or temporary. He says now that he didn't reveal that because it might make him less effective.
It seems he has done enough on his own to make himself less effective without the burden of a "temporary" label.
During the first days that Lyon was on the job, he told a Salt Lake Tribune reporter that Anderson was going to make a public apology about his perceived treatment of certain employees.
When the reporter put that information on The Tribune's Web site, Anderson apparently didn't like the word "apology." So Lyon told the reporter that she, not he, got it wrong.
That was the first glitch in his credibility with the press.
The second was when he did a similar dance with KCPW, telling one reporter with the radio station that Anderson was making a "mea culpa" and later denying that he had said that to another reporter with the same station.
When I wrote about the fact that the City-County Building was not flying its flag at half-staff like other government buildings to honor Katrina victims and the recently deceased Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, I had called Lyon to find out why.
He said he would get back to me with the answer, then never did, although the flag was flown at half-staff the next day.
After I wrote that Lyon never got back to me with the answers to my questions, he told Anderson that he left a message on my answering machine that evening, apparently gambling that I don't check my messages at night. Unfortunately for him, I do. He did not leave a message on my answering machine.
Lyon says he won't apply for the permanent job because he is overqualified. If that's true, I'd hate see the person who is underqualified.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
When Lyon first took over for Deeda Seed, fired for alleged incompetence, there was no mention that he was volunteer or temporary. He says now that he didn't reveal that because it might make him less effective.
It seems he has done enough on his own to make himself less effective without the burden of a "temporary" label.
During the first days that Lyon was on the job, he told a Salt Lake Tribune reporter that Anderson was going to make a public apology about his perceived treatment of certain employees.
When the reporter put that information on The Tribune's Web site, Anderson apparently didn't like the word "apology." So Lyon told the reporter that she, not he, got it wrong.
That was the first glitch in his credibility with the press.
The second was when he did a similar dance with KCPW, telling one reporter with the radio station that Anderson was making a "mea culpa" and later denying that he had said that to another reporter with the same station.
When I wrote about the fact that the City-County Building was not flying its flag at half-staff like other government buildings to honor Katrina victims and the recently deceased Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, I had called Lyon to find out why.
He said he would get back to me with the answer, then never did, although the flag was flown at half-staff the next day.
After I wrote that Lyon never got back to me with the answers to my questions, he told Anderson that he left a message on my answering machine that evening, apparently gambling that I don't check my messages at night. Unfortunately for him, I do. He did not leave a message on my answering machine.
Lyon says he won't apply for the permanent job because he is overqualified. If that's true, I'd hate see the person who is underqualified.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
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I just googled myself and found much to my dismay, that Paul Rolly began trashing me (Cliff Lyon) long before his most recent factually challenged column which reflects not only his utter disinterest in truth but also, a highly developed capacity for lying in order to squeeze juice out of a non-story with the skill of a successful reality TV director with the confidence of Ann Coulter.
The more compelling story is how this guy ever survived a less than remarkable career for this long given that his entire resume could be fully detailed in 14pt type face on the piece of a thong that sits just above the crack of a skinny chicks ass, and that both his column and this blog (abandoned after a year of no interest) are the only media of which I have been the subject, in contrast to virtually all others, which has not been brought to my attention by a friend or colleague the day it was published and before I saw it myself.
So to the extent that there is any truth to the claim that his column is the second most read in the paper, which distinction Mr. Rolly recounts every chance he gets according to everyone I know, without exception, who’s ever met him, it certainly can’t be validated among the many acquaintances we have in common.
So as a result of the dearth of if not complete absence of Paul Rolly readers, my lawyer informs me the any damages that might be assigned to the dishonest libelous comments he’s made about me, Cliff Lyon, would not justify filing a complaint.
But just for fun, should anyone wanting to prove which one of us is lying about leaving him a message about the flag at half-mast thing, you can file a GRAMA request with the city which would confirm that I called both his office and cell phone around 4:30 and spoke into the phone long enough to give him an answer which would have destroyed the juice in his column. It’s my guess, that seconds after asking me to find out “who is responsible for putting the flag at half mast” he strategically filed the story, turned off his cell phone, and hit the kinks. Somebody should check and see when he clocked out.
Given the unusually hi qualifications required to respond to such important questions, I was surprised by his comment, “Lyon says he won't apply for the permanent job because he is overqualified. If that's true, I'd hate see the person who is underqualified.”
Luckily, I was a volunteer at the time. I would hate to think what the tax-payers would say if they new someone on the city payroll were being paid to waste their time chasing down trick questions from a gossip columnist.
Cheers
Cliff Lyon
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