Bessemer mayoral candidate Dorothy Davidson claims Nick Saban endorsement, passing out fliers with altered photoPublished: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 6:30 AM Updated: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 9:11 AMAnita Debro -- The Birmingham News Anita Debro -- The Birmingham NewsBessemer Councilwoman Dorothy Davidson is distributing a flier for her mayoral campaign that includes the top photo. Davidson claims Alabama football coach Nick Saban is endorsing her campaign, but the Alabama athletics staff says no endorsement was made. Davidson acknowledged Tuesday night a photo shown below of Saban and his wife, Terry, from 2007 was altered to include her.Bessemer Councilwoman Dorothy Davidson, who is running for mayor of the city, claims she secured Saban's endorsement of her campaign three weeks ago. Davidson printed it on a color campaign flier that shows her and the coach smiling side by side on a golf course.But University of Alabama athletics officials on Tuesday said there is no such endorsement. And the photo of Davidson and Saban together is not real, but digitally altered from another photo."Coach Saban has not been contacted for a political endorsement of any kind," Associate Athletics Director Jeff Purinton wrote in an e-mail response to questions from The Birmingham News.Davidson, when contacted about the campaign ad and photo on Tuesday afternoon, at first said the image of her and Saban together was real and taken about three weeks ago. However, when presented later with a 2007 photo of Saban and his wife that appears to be the base photo onto which Davidson's image was added, the candidate acknowledged that her image was digitally added to the 2007 photo."They said we could do it this way," Davidson said.Davidson's part of the picture is what was taken three weeks ago, she said Tuesday night.While the photo is fake, the support of Saban is real, Davidson and her campaign manager, Kevin Morris, maintain."My dad, Larry Morris, and coach Saban are friends," Morris said Tuesday. "We were on the golf course one day, and I asked him myself if this would be OK."Morris said Saban agreed. Morris said he would not have created the campaign flier, which has the upcoming football schedules for the University of Alabama, Auburn University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham on the back side, if Saban's endorsement was not legitimate.Efforts to reach Saban for comment were unsuccessful, but university officials contend no endorsement was given.Davidson said she does not know how many of the fliers were printed, but her campaign workers have been handing them out. She is one of six candidates vying to be Bessemer's mayor. The election is Tuesday.This is an image of Davidson's flier.For a political hopeful in Alabama, it could be the ultimate endorsement -- a show of support from University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban.
It wasn't even a good farking job. You can clearly see Terri's pouf sticking up behind her head.
Plus, she should be taller than him.
Not in the B'ham news. I thought we had already gone over this.
True. That pic does look slanted.
Oh. So now it's about Asians?
It's always about the Asians.
Wonder if Birmingham was her campaign manager?
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