We’re not one to begrudge anybody’s familial and domestic, ahem, problems… but the head of King Coal, Bill Caylor, apparently violated a protective order his wife had against him:
Bill Caylor, longtime lobbyist and spokesman for Kentucky’s coal industry, will appear in Fayette District Court on Friday on a misdemeanor charge of violating an emergency protective order filed by his wife.
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Lexington police arrested Caylor on May 10 at his home on Turkey Foot Road in Lexington. His wife, Geaunita Caylor, had taken out a protective order against him, which required him to not communicate with her or come within 1,000 yards of her. But Bill Caylor repeatedly left phone messages with his wife and went to their house to try to talk to her through the door, despite knowing that it violated the court order, according to the arrest report.
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The reason for the protective order was not listed in court records Thursday. Geaunita Caylor declined to comment. She is paid $45,781 a year at the University of Kentucky to coordinate coal-related conferences, including some that feature her husband.
Don’t want to speculate (nor should you) about whether Caylor is accused of domestic violence or anything… because we all know how these things come about and aren’t always legit. But. Uh. Yeah.
Ouch.
16 responses so far ↓
1 Taylor // Jul 16, 2009 at 3:06 pm
for someone who is as big of an asshole as Bill Caylor is, I’m not really surprised, and yet I can’t stop laughing. This may be the best story you’ve ever picked up!
2 jake // Jul 16, 2009 at 3:13 pm
John Cheves is a great journalist.
3 Taylor // Jul 16, 2009 at 3:58 pm
you’re right. any reason this took two months to come to light?
4 jake // Jul 16, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Must have taken a while for Caylor to piss enough people off. Or could have taken him a while to piss the right person off. Who knows?
5 Chelsea // Jul 24, 2009 at 7:02 pm
For one, Bill Caylor is not an asshole. He is simply a man in a position of power caught up in a private domestic struggle of he said/she said finger-pointing that has been brought out into the public eye by a journalist who already had a grudge against the man.
It’s always easy to paint a non-renewable fuel lobbyist as a bad guy, no talent needed there, but John Cheves went many steps too far by including very personal information in an article about the devastating disentegration of a family, yes a family.
I do not defend Mr. Caylor because I’m some greedy coal-loving conservative, in fact I’m a blatantly left-thinking liberal, and I certainly do not condone his breaking of the law. I just happen to be a friend of the Caylors’ youngest son, who has recently had his family’s private matters thrust into the spotlight because of who his dad works for.
So I simply ask that before you proceed with the name calling of a person you’ve never even met over a story that you don’t fully understand, just think about those you are hurting and be grateful for the fact that when you have sensitive family issues, that they aren’t in print.
6 jake // Jul 24, 2009 at 9:35 pm
First off, sweetie, we’ve all met Bill Caylor and we know all about the horse shit he spreads all over the Commonwealth. So save your ridiculous faux compassion. He’s a slimy son of a bitch, in my opinion. That said – he often does come off like a nice guy. Until you listen to what he has to say.
John Cheves didn’t bring shit upon Bill that he didn’t bring on himself. Police reports are public record.
Don’t want your laundry to be public? Don’t do shit that’ll involve the a police report and open records.
7 Chelsea // Jul 25, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Okey dokey Jakey-poo, lobbyists are paid to spread shit in favor of their respective companies, that’s their job. If you have a problem with the way Mr. Caylor conducts his business I suggest you take it up with the Kentucky Coal Association. Don’t hate the playa hate the game.
8 jake // Jul 25, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Uh, sorry, Caylor doesn’t get to use the “My Employer Makes Me” excuse. He makes the conscious decision to shill and lie for the coal industry every single day of his life and he makes millions for doing it.
Can your faux concern, really.
9 Kate // Jul 25, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Even though police reports are available to the public, the simple fact is that no one would care about this case if didn’t involve the president of the Kentucky Coal Association. It has obviously been blown way out of proportion- people need to learn when to respect the privacy of others.
10 Michael // Jul 26, 2009 at 1:21 am
Katie brings up a valid point: Anybody who has any amount of limelight on them will obviously be scrutinized to the extremes. A disappointing fact is that domestic abuse happens, but Caylor being Caylor doesn’t mean that his political affiliations (or his job) should come under fire for his personal choices.
On a greater point, who uses “faux” more than once in an argument…unless you’re French. And if you’re French, you can STFU and go back to eating snails and not bathing.
Also, the bitch prolly deserved it.
11 Conservative // Jul 26, 2009 at 1:57 am
“Even though police reports are available to the public, the simple fact is that no one would care about this case if didn’t involve the president of the Kentucky Coal Association. It has obviously been blown way out of proportion- people need to learn when to respect the privacy of others.”
Agreed. Had this been Graddy or FitzGerald or Doerrfeld or any of the other anti-coal gang, this would never have seen the light of day in the Herald-Leader.
The H-L hates coal, so Caylor’s story goes into the paper. Simple as that. If the H-L is out to get you, every little thing is fair game. Ask Ernie Fletcher. Or Mike Gobb.
12 jake // Jul 26, 2009 at 8:22 am
Wife-beaters just don’t get any respect anymore, do they? At least from that goddamned librul media.
I guess the bitch prolly deserved it?
13 Conservative // Jul 27, 2009 at 1:07 pm
To quote Jake, nice spin.
What I’m saying is that this was news because it’s Caylor. Funny that no one denies my supposition that it wouldn’t have been news had it been Hank Graddy or Tom FitzGerald or Doug Doerrfeld or anyone else from the Sierra Club or KFTC. No one excuses domestic violence, but it only became news because it involved a spokesman for the coal industry. The anti-coalers would not be held to the same scrutiny.
14 jake // Jul 27, 2009 at 1:11 pm
That’s bogus.
I always talk about public figures and their foibles regardless of political bent and you know it.
15 Conservative // Jul 27, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Not you. The Herald-Leader.
16 Taylor // Jul 27, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I’ll disagree with Conservative and say that the reactionaries in the coal lobby would be all over Hank or Fitz’s personal lives were they to make such a major fuck-up as Caylor has. It’s just the fact of the matter that none of the aforementioned individuals are wife beaters, so you don’t even need to worry about it. In the exact same way that Al Gore has been criticized for his excessive energy consumption (even if it is from renewable sources), noone is immune from media criticism. Piss poor complaints of liberal media bias are not only tired, they’ve been proven by political scientists to be downright false across the board.
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