Bloomberg, CNBC, FoxBusiness, and many other leading media orgs have Ray Wang as a guest a few times a week. All of them do background checks to not bring people with dubious history on their panels.
Redwood City Council Person Endorses Ray’s Commitment to Residents
The video below is from a two times Redwood City Council Women Colleen Hallinan, acknowledging how Ray worked so hard to defend residents from harm due to greedy builders and resisted harassment from builders, about 20 years ago.
Disinformation Attacks: History & Motivations
After JR Fruen led builders-YIMBY took over the City Council they decided to take control of the Planning Commission. As part of the process to remove Ray Wang from the planning commission, they orchestrated a disinformation campaign about an incident in Redwood City/Shores two decades ago.
They are rehashing some of the articles they published in local outlets to denigrate Ray. Please do not fall for the disinformation. These attacks are malacious and without substance, and are being distributed because the builders are afraid Ray will resist their efforts to make Billions in profits on the back of our quality of life.
What happened in Redwood City Two Decades Ago?
In 2003, Ray challenged Redwood City’s decision to grant permission to a builder to use recycled, non-potable water in areas accessible to children, who may not realize that it’s not fit for drinking. Not being able to dump that non-potable water would have increased the costs and reduced profits for builders.
One local politician, Rosanne Foust, was leveraged by the builders to sue Ray Wang. Foust has a close relationship with developers and was fined $3000 by the FPPC in 2014 for the misuse of her position as the Vice-Mayor to champion another big project.
Ray, whose wife was pregnant with their first child at that time, decided to settle instead of going through a jury trial. He pleaded no-contest to charges of leaving an annoying message for Foust on her phone.
Related charges accusing him of sexual harassment were summarily dismissed. Ray has stated that he had an open wifi network (these were early days of wireless internet) and a builder’s agent may have connected to it to sign-up Foust’s email for web-sites which may deliver adult content, in order to frame him.
Please Defend Your Rights from Builders
After Ray was removed from the Planning Commission, the builders took control and stopped having meetings, Out of the regularly scheduled 24 meetings, only six were held in 2023.
This limited transparency and opportunity for public input, while the city’s Housing Element was being redone to favor builders. That allowed the builders to hide their shenanigans like the proposal to upzone all corner lots in single family homes to R3 to allow construction of five story condos in single family neighborhoods. Strategy HE-1.3.6 of the 2nd HE draft
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