The Revenge of the Mayor?

 

Pictured above is Muscle Shoals Mayor Mike Lockhart. (Note to Mike: They now sell cheap undershirts with vee-necks at Walmart...right there in Muscle Shoals.) A highly placed source in the city has told us it was Mike who demanded Scott Clayton-Atwater be given the job as golf pro at Cypress Lakes. In this manner, the malicious mayor had his revenge on one or more employees of the city's recreation department.

Consider:

1. How many other interviews has the mayor ever sat in on? We’ve been told very few, if any. 

2. How long has the city ever given anyone to accept or decline a position? We’ve been told never more than a couple of days regardless of the position. (Clayton-Atwater had two weeks.) 

3. How long has the city ever given anyone, regardless of the position, to start after the interview? Willing to bet it’s not two months. 

Governments, like individuals, usually get what they deserve. Cypress Lakes has long been a sucking drain on the City of Muscle Shoals, and Clayton-Atwater will fit right in.

Scott Clayton (Atwater) Plays Dumb...or Is He Not Playing?

 

This blog has received two interesting pieces of information about Mr. Clayton...or is that Mr. Atwater? Why does a golf pro use two names? Does he have a political blog under a pen name that we need to know about? Is it to confuse law enforcement? Perhaps a multiple personality disorder? 

Both tidbits come from highly placed and reliable sources. First, a local news organization asked Clayton-Atwater to comment on the controversy surrounding his appointment at Cypress Lakes Golf Club. He replied that he was unaware of any controversy.

So Scott (it's easier to just call him that) hasn't been Googling his name to see what's being said in our backwater area of the state that he was so unsure of moving to? Perhaps he's also selling ocean front property in Arizona - goodness knows his family sells everything else on Facebook. 

For those truly unaware of the controversy, between 70 and 100 members of the Muscle Shoals golf club signed a petition asking for his job offer to be rescinded. We're betting the employees and patrons of his current club are fervently praying that it isn't. 

And our second tidbit of information about the dubious hire? We'll have that tomorrow.

Scott Clayton (Atwater) New Pawn at Cypress Lakes

 

Scott Clayton, aka Scott Atwater, is invading Muscle Shoals golf. Yes, the Mike Myers lookalike has accepted the position of Cypress Lakes pro. He'll soon be uprooting his family for his latest pit stop on the career ladder. How long this job hopper will stay in Muscle Shoals is anyone's guess. 

And what of Matt McCollum, the stable and more suited candidate for the job who became the victim of a personal vendetta against the city's parks manager? We hope to do an update soon. 

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Speaking of golf, how are other local courses going? So many seem to have the half life of an unrefrigerated sliced tomato; is another one about to bite the dust?