Looked it up and the “cupertinotoday.com” domain is registered by the same Domains By Proxy, LLC as Sand Hill Property Company’s “revitalizevallco.com” domain name. Both sites also use the same Name Servers. Domains By Proxy is used to hide the identity of website owners, so yes it very well could be a Sand Hill backed fake news site.

Totally agree that YIMBYs have been coopted to intimidate Cupertino into allowing Sand Hill Property Company to build more OFFICES at Vallco!! It works against their claimed interests for affordable housing.

If Cupertino has “been branded as a NIMBY stronghold”, it is the result of an long running and well funded campaign by Sand Hill. The Mercury News is in the pocket of Sand Hill as demonstrated in their editorial outrage at Wang, but not at former Mayor Barry Chang who collected large donations from Sand Hill and South Bay Construction immediately after firing the city attorney who disagreed with Sand Hill. The Mercury News also ran a “columnist” Jean Bedord whose columns critiqued Vallco and Council candidates, without acknowledging that Bedord is an active media consultant and campaign supporter of Sand Hill.

If having the Mercury News as an extension of the Sand Hill PR department isn’t enough, a fake news site called “Cupertino Today” was created at the start of the new Vallco SB35 strategy roll out. Cupertino Today runs pro-Sand Hill pieces mixed with press releases to make it look like a real news site and maybe catch a few readers. Sand Hill’s Vallco site references Vallco stories on the Cupertino Today fake news site. The self identified “publisher” Phil Siegel of the Cupertino Today fake news site just happens to be a San Francisco based public relations consultant. It is a sophisticated fake news site operation, where the fake news blog has been able to get listed on the Google News Index despite not meeting google’s required standards for transparency.

Fly didn’t make the accusation. Notice how that comment you’re referring to is in “” quotes.

Nice, after his sexist rant and criticism of the Planning Commission’s only female Commissioner he is back to insult and demand the resignation of yet another planning commissioner. At this rate, he’ll be back three more times to demand the resignation of all remaining commissioners. To his credit, there wasn’t as much shouting, but if you watch the video you’ll see that another public comment criticizes / threatens the work place of another commissioner.

Of course, it’s never sexism when the unnecessarily harsh criticisms leveled against the only woman on the Cupertino Council or the only Planning Commissioner is singles out and vilified because they’re on the side of the people and not that of powerful developers, unions, and Big Tech.

If you’d like a taste of real intimidation and coercion, visit bittercupertino.wordpress.com

I’ve seen many so called YIMBYs come down from San Francisco to berate one of the nation’s most diverse cities (they can’t call us racists but have moved onto the talking point of age diversity) and everyone living in it. It’s getting old. New Urbanism, neoliberalism, and pro-developer corporate welfare is not going to work out. The AstroTurf YIMBY movement is insincere and backed by powerful corporations. Money in politics is real, but unfortunately for YIMBYs this is still a democracy

So describing it as “YIMBY neoliberal fascists” is factually correct.

Sort of ironic that a ‘pro-growth’ software engineer from the west valley is up there giving a speech. Kind of like the CEO of Wells Fargo giving a speech advocating for banking reform.