Oklahoma Woman: Don't Vote for My Dad!

Personal attacks in politics are nothing new, but it's not often that someone runs political attack ads against her own father.

That's why the decision by Jan Schill, 31, to launch a campaign against her father, Oklahoma judicial candidate John Mantooth, is garnering such attention.

Schill and her husband, Andrew Schill, bought a quarter-page newspaper ad against Mantooth, CBS affiliate KOTV reports.

"John Mantooth is NOT a good father, NOT a good grandfather & in my opinion a review of his 37 year record as an attorney in Cleveland, Garvin and McClain Counties reveals that HE WOULD NOT BE A GOOD JUDGE," the ad reads.

The Schills have also launched the website Donotvoteformydad.com, which lists lawsuits against Mantooth and shares a personal anecdote aimed at portraying Mantooth as uncaring. In a blog post on the website entitled "Worm-ridden Chocolates," Andrew Schill relates a story of how Mantooth once gave his daughter a basket of worm-ridden chocolates for Christmas, apparently having pulled the gift from a pantry as an afterthought.

"Back in 2004, I asked Mr. Mantooth what kind of father would give his daughter the gift of worm-ridden chocolates for Christmas," Schill wrote. "Today, I would suggest that the question the voters of District 21 should be asking is, 'if this is what Mr. Mantooth gives to his children, what would he give the people of District 21?'"

Jan Schill told KOTV that her father is campaigning as a family man but in reality has no relationship with his children.

"We felt like somebody's got to tell everyone that this is not a man with a clean slate that's going to represent everyone," she said.

Mantooth told the Associated Press that he is very sad about the negative campaign and said he loves his daughter. He said he suspects the Schills were motivated by politics. Andrew Schill was once law partners with one of Mantooth's opponents, 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."

The Schills said they were not motivated by that connection, and Dixon reportedly also said he had nothing to do with the ad or website.

"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."

Voters will decide today who will fill the District 21 Judge seat.