Assassination of Mayor Richard Wilkins III

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To start the ball rolling, a thought on the Sunnydale High disaster of 1999 - has anyone considered the idea that it might have been deliberately planned to assassinate Mayor Richard Wilkins III? The Wilkins family seem to have a total lock on this office for more than a century, what if someone wanted them out, or an attack staged to tighten Wilkins' grip on the town went horribly wrong? It may be relevant that Deputy Mayor Allan Finch was assassinated by the mysterious Faith Lehane (a known associate of Wilkins) only three months earlier. What do we know about Wilkins' political rivals?

I don't recall this coming up on alt.conspiracy.sunnydale, but I missed a lot of posts in the early years so it's possible it was discussed then. It certainly hasn't come up recently. Anyone got any thoughts?