Daughter Urges Voters ‘Don’t Elect My Dad!’

The daughter of a judicial candidate in Oklahoma has taken out an ad telling citizens “Do not vote for my Dad!”

Ouch!

Jan Schill, 31, and her husband paid for the quarter-page ad that included a picture of her family and a list of all the times her father, John Mantooth, had been sued.  It included the address of a website the couple started detailing Mantooth’s legal history.

The father and daughter both admit they’ve never had a good relationship, starting, Mantooth says, after his divorce from Schill’s mother decades ago. But the candidate for judge in McClain County said he also sees a little political maneuvering. Schill’s husband’s former law partner is one of Mantooth’s opponents, Greg Dixon.

Dixon isn’t very pleased with family matters intruding on his campaign. Here’s what he told the Associated Press:

“Unequivocally, absolutely not,” he said. “I don’t want to be affiliated with that website or that ad. I don’t want to use it as a platform in my political campaign.”

Awkward!

Every political family has someone, huh?