Nothing like letting a little family dispute spill over into the public eye.
One judicial candidate in Oklahoma is busy defending himself from a political attack – launched by his own daughter.
Jan Schill, 31, has placed an ad in the local paper saying: “Do not vote for my dad!”
Jan is the daughter of judicial hopeful John Mantooth. She and Mantooth’s son-in-law paid for the quarter-page ad, which lists a website that the couple has launched, http://www.donotvoteformydad.com.
The hostility seems to be the result of Mantooth’s divorce from Jan Shill’s mom back in 1981.
“This is a family issue which should have been kept private,” he says. “I’m very sad about this. I’m very disappointed. I’m hurt, but I love my daughter, and I want things to get better, and I hope they will.”
Schill says she’s never had a good relationship with her dad and she doesn’t think he’ll make for a very good judge.
“We just felt like it would be bad if he were to become a judge,” Schill said in a phone interview from her home in Colorado. “I assumed that he would not appreciate it, but he’s made so many people mad, I’m just another mark on his board of people’s he’s had a beef with.”
While Mantooth admits the whole thing is a shame, he also believes that some political posturing may be at work. Turns out Andrew Schill, his son-in-law, was once the law partner of one of his opponents in Tuesday’s primary, Greg Dixon.
“That’s a very strange set of circumstances,” Mantooth said. “For a person to believe that Greg Dixon had nothing to do with this is like trying to believe that cows give chocolate milk.”
Schill maintains that he and his wife paid for the ad and that no one else was involved.
It’s going to be a fun Father’s Day for this family.
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