Glen Lang

Glen Lang is an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Cary, North Carolina from 1999 to 2003.

Lang, a millionaire and CEO of [http://www.capband.net Capital Broadband] , a wireless communications company, first entered politics in 1997 with a self-financed bid for the Cary Town Council. He won, and, two years later, sought and was elected mayor. During his time in Cary politics, Lang was an outspoken advocate of slower growth for the rapidly-expanding town as well as for infrastructure improvements, incurring the ire of local developers by supporting increased fees for residential development. Lang was a controversial figure in Cary politics, often described as arrogant or combative. Lang ran into ethics problems when it was discovered that his firm was doing business in the Town of Cary with certain property developers who also had pending business before the Town Council. Lang was confronted by Town Council members Julie Robison, Nels Roseland, Marla Dorrel, Jack Smith and Jennifer Robinson over the matter after Lang had explicitly assured Roseland and Robison that he was not doing business in the Town of Cary. The volatile and divisive exchange at a Town Council meeting demonstrated the need for a Town ethics ordinance for elected officials. Lang filed for re-election but did not campaign. In the 2003 race Lang placed third, and said the reason for his loss was on account of the fact that he only spent $10 to file and nothing on his campaign. He was succeeded as mayor by Ernie McAlister.