A member of the Mount Sterling Village Council on Monday said degrading graffiti spray-paintedall over her home and car was politically motivated.
Diane Spradlin said someone painted several obscene words and images on her home, garage and twoof her family's cars.
She believes the attack was politically motivated, 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported.
The vandalism happened last week, just one night after Spradlin wrote a guest column in anewspaper that criticized current and former village administrations for how several issues werehandled.
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Those issues came up at a village council meeting following the paper's publication, and justhours later, vandals damaged her home.
"It would be very coincidental for this to be random, to happen right on this day," Spradlinsaid. "I immediately felt that it was political. My first and immediate gut reaction was thisis some horrendous payback."
Mount Sterling police took photos of the damage but no arrests have been made.
Spradlin said the cleanup is estimated is more than $8,000. She said the attack will not costthe people of Mount Sterling a council member who speaks her mind.
"I'm not intimidated by it," Spradlin said."I was elected by the people to serve through the endof 2013 and I'm not going anywhere."
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