Jan Schill, 31, a photographer whose work often includes families and children, took out an ad in a local newspaper and created a web site donotvoteformydad.com in an effort to sink her father’s campaign for District 21 judge in Oklahoma. The quarter page ad reads, “John Mantooth is not a good father, not a good grandfather, and in my opinion…he would not be a good judge!” John Mantooth says he’s disappointed in his daughter’s behavior but apparently there’s been bad blood between father and daughter since Mantooth divorced Schill’s mother in 1981.  Jan’s husband, Andrew Schill, previously worked for Mantooth’s opponent, Greg Dixon, who says he wants no connection with the Schills or the ill thought ad. Ms. Schill, who doesn’t even live in Okla., anymore said she was pretty sure her dad would be pissed about the ad and web site, ”We just felt like it would be bad if he were to become a judge,” Schill said in a telephone interview from her home in Durango, Colo., according to the Associated Press  “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.” With family like this, who needs enemies?

Credit: AP Photo/Andrew and Jan Schill

Jan Schill needs a big spoonful of grow up! What kind of a daughter takes out an ad and creates a web site denouncing her father? I don’t care what kind of issues she had at the divorce, daughter’s don’t do that! It’s tacky. It’s petty and it shows how immature and childish she is. She sounds like a bratty toddler that just can’t get over the divorce and needs one hell of a spanking. Jan may despise her father for not being there, for those “worm-ridden Chocolates” he gave her at Christmas, for not being the good man she thinks he should have been, but none of us know the actual relationship the two have. We just know she’s upset with her daddy. And it’s childish and it’s unfair (at 12 it’s understandable, at 31 it’s cause for a defamation law suit). And maybe that’s the only way Jan could think to hurt her father. Congratulations, Jan! You won. How does it feel to be a bad daughter? What she did is just about the worst example of motherhood and she better hope her kids don’t get mad and call their nearest newspaper for a little revenge. For his part, I hope Mr. Mantooth takes the higher road and drives out to Colorado to confront his daughter and to apologize for any bad feelings she still carries. I hope he tells his daughter he loves her. That he’s sorry for not being there and leaves her to think about what she did and why she did it and what it will mean when she looks back at her actions 10 years later. Anger at your father is understandable. But when you lose him, if he passes away, or simply cuts you out of his life all together, when your kids ask about grandpa, Jan, you may regret what you did.