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Fighting back in Woodinville WA [1]

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Date: 2025-07-22

About 2 months ago, I saw some new political signs appear. This is a normal event this time of year, but these stood out.

I have worked with many political campaigns in our area going back to 2006. One thing I have learned from all of them is they run on extremely tight budgets and are very careful to respect the donations from their supporters.

These new signs for Woodinville City Council by Jeff Lyon were not cheap. In all my years I had never seen signs this extravagant. They are entirely metal framed, have 2 sections to each sign, had to be hammered into the ground and contained tracking devices. I was so shocked by them I had to look up even where you could get these.

I am not sure where Lyon acquired them, but the cheapest I could find were that these signs cost around $40 to $50 each. In comparison, most political signs cost less than $4 each.

This immediately set off all my alarm bells. Why would someone running for a Woodinville City Council seat that only pays about $10,000 per year spend so much on his signs.

Then the 2nd batch of signs appeared. Easily 10 times as many signs all promoting a PAC called “Democratic Woodinville”. Nice blue colors, pitching they are trying to get to 55% turnout, etc…

I looked them up, and their page is loaded with great sounding promises that align with a lot of progressive values, but on that same page I saw a name I was all too familiar with. Rachel Best-Campbell. This was the final straw. She is the one MAGA affiliated person who managed to run a sneaky campaign, got onto our city council, and has been causing hell there every single day and every single meeting. I needed to know what was going on here.

That is when I came across a blog by a true Democratic candidate for our City Council, Michele Evans.

www.michelle4woodinville.com/…

This isn't just hypocrisy—it’s an admission. He doesn’t believe in making Woodinville more affordable. He believes Woodinville is for people like him, and if you don’t make enough money, you don’t belong here. Similarly, Lyon’s Democratic Woodinville ad claims that the city needs to invest in roads and ensure that development includes affordability measures, stating: "Instead of asking for more money, we should ask for affordability in new developments while continuing to invest in roads. This will help us ease congestion, moderate the pace of development and ensure that the developments that do go forward have integrated affordability down to 40% of the area median income." Yet, Lyon has also publicly raged against Woodinville’s growth, stating: "Key phrase = King County is booming. Woodinville is not and should not boom."

So, I decided that if he wants to waste money, I can spend a tiny bit of what he is spending to destroy his campaign. I bought 80 signs and made sure to place them next to all of his signs and his cronies signs around Woodinville.

Having worked with political campaigns, it is extremely dangerous for them to also be attack dogs with their own signs. But I also know they are extremely effective historically. The issue is finding people who are not already involved or associated with the campaigns that are willing to put their own name and address and money out there to do it themselves.

So that’s what I did.

I put signs everywhere. We are a very blue area so I made them aggressively red. The goal is to expose the people trying to buy our city council and shut them down in their tracks.

What did this cost me? So far, about $650 and about 4 hours of time assembling the signs and driving around and planting them.

What is the result so far? Well it appears to be working. I have had about a dozen people stop by my house and thank me personally. The mayor of Woodinville reached out to me directly offering to support my efforts in any way he could. Turns out he had bought some attack signs a couple years back for running against Rachel Best-Campbell, but was advised against putting them up because of how it would hurt him politically in our area. So, I am taking ownership of signs, putting my name and address on them, and putting them up.

I also have been contacted by 3 City Council Democratic Campaigns that have asked me to speak at an event Wednesday to encourage others to take action like I have done.

So far, I have only had one Magat come to my house to harass me a bit. When he saw me whip out my phone he shut up immediately and walked off.

Check your local community, you probably have well-funded assholes like Lyon trying to do the same in your town or nearby towns. Don’t be afraid to take action yourself.

And now for some copyright free music to motivate you (trigger warning for lots of cursing)

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