Family Feud
Jul 28th, 2010 by Patrick Thornton
This story was one of the most popular stories online when I left last night and it still was when I got in this morning.
A woman in Oklahoma really doesn’t want her dad to be judge. So much so that she stared a Web site with perhaps the best URL in some time: www.dontvoteformydad.com.
John Mantooth (great last name) is running for judge in McClain County, Okla. His daughter from his first marriage Jan Schill and her husband Andrew started the Web site and took out an ad in the local paper urging voters to vote for anyone else. The story gets even odder because Andrew used to be law partners with Mantooth’s opponent in the judicial race. If you visit the site, you see that one of Andrew’s gripes against his quasi-father-in-law is a Christmas present from a few years back.
I can’t quite think of a story from Minnesota that is on par with this one. Though there is a guy running for judge in Ramsey County with my last name. I’ve asked the matriarch of the family and we’re not related. This could potentially be a good thing for Matthew Thornton.
The article said he used to be law partners with Mantooth’s opponents in the primary, not with Mantooth.
Yep. You’re right. Correction made. Thanks for the heads up. A.C.