D-Case of the Week - Aug Wk4: Dorothy "Dot" Davidson AND Jeffrey Loria/Miami-Dade County Officials

Dorothy "Dot" Davidson

For running for mayor in the town of Bessemer, Alabama and falsely using an endorsement from University of Alabama’s head football coach Nick Saban. For those of you who might be unaware football in Alabama is sacred, which makes Nick Saban, head coach of the defending national champion Crimson Tide, their own personal Jesus. Davidson’s camp sent out flyers emblazoned with a photo of Saban and Davidson and the words: “Nick Saban fully supports Dorothy 'Dot' Davidson, and thinks she would be an excellent mayor for the City of Bessemer.” Well turns out the image was actually a photoshopped picture of Saban and his wife during a golf outing and Saban had never endorsed Davidson in any way. Photoshopping any image is a bold maneuver (see: BP, D-Case for the 3rd Week of July) all by itself, doctoring an image to put yourself in place of a local icon’s wife is something else entirely…its’ entirely D-Case.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8300-503544_162-503544.html?keyword=Photoshop

Jeffrey Loria and Miami-Dade County Officials

For the absurd sleaziness of Loria and the pure idiocy of the Miami-Dade County officials displayed in the new stadium deal for the Florida Marlins. Loria is the owner of the Florida Marlins, and has been claiming for years that the Marlins lose money and can't pay for a new stadium and needed the taxpayers to foot the bill for him. Well, as detailed by the article linked below, some of the Marlins' financial documents were leaked and have been published by Deadspin. As the article says, "n. The team fought to conceal the $48.9 million in profits over the last two years because the revelation would have prompted county commissioners to insist the team provide more funding." As for the D-case-ness of the Miami-Dade County officials, not only did they allow Loria to get away with footing the taxpayers with the bill while raking in large profits, but here's one of the loans they've agreed to as part of financing the new stadium:"According to the Miami Herald, J.P. Morgan gave a $91 million note – $80 million of which will go toward construction – that from 2041-47 will cost $118 million per year. In all, the county will spend $1.2 billion to pay off $91 million."
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Aoj0jfvDv2cQIVjfnh3sKGARvLYF?slug=jp-marlinsfinancials082410