If you want one person to totally control a small city, this is the formula to use: Solicit a friend to run for office in the city. If the friend has no education, no experience, no political background, and no skills for the elected position, spend thousands of dollars anonymously running a campaign to lie about your friend’s opponent, and send this information to voters beginning 90 days before the election. Then, spend many more thousands of dollars supporting the friend's campaign so there is plenty of money for signs, advertising and so on, to make it look like your friend has the support of the people. There you have it. Woodinville citizens need to prevent their city from being taken over by a single developer. Tell Brad Walker to take his developer friends to another city. Woodinville will not elect a candidate that depends solely on one developer for nearly his entire campaign. Woodinville residents will stick with local candidates that represent all Woodinville residents, not just a single big shot developer.