The Alameda County Green Party November 2026 Voter Guide
The Alameda County Green Party reached out to me with a very long 21-question endorsement questionnaire. Here are all my answers, verbatim.
Corry Frydlewicz’s Responses to the Green Party Questionnaire for Emeryville City Council 2026
Hi AC Greens,
Here’s my response to your questionnaire. Thanks for considering me for your endorsement. 😊
- please don’t share my personal contact information beyond the necessary members of your org
- please let me know if these answers get published anywhere publicly visible
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Name: Corry Frydlewicz
Phone: [redacted]
Email: corry4emeryville@gmail.com
Website: https://corry4emeryville.com1. Why did you choose to run for this office? If you are a non-incumbent candidate, what strength/skills would you bring to the Council?
When ICE started terrorizing our cities after the 2024 election, I was afraid. Instead of running away, I decided to find ways a laid-off technical manager could use her skills to protect our sanctuary city.
For years before that, friends and neighbors told me I should run because I was so passionate about Emeryville and had a different perspective from the sitting council. I love Emeryville, and I love our city’s many objectives, but a lot of disorganization and drama seems to get in the way.
Once I saw the Flock contract and how they ignored all the evidence against this type of surveillance (despite my public comments about it), it set me on my path to try and make sure our city doesn’t get fleeced again. Or at the very least that my campaign can raise awareness about these issues and whoever does take the seats does a better job addressing them.
3. For non-incumbents, name a recent development that is successful in your option (and why) and one that isn’t successful.
Obviously, I was very disappointed by the Flock contract. I don’t believe the council had enough sources of information to make a truly informed decision, nor did they heed the objections of residents who never consented to giving up their right to privacy on public streets to this untrustworthy tech company.
I love the work being done to make our streets safer. The reduced speed limits and multi-modal projects are excellent and I want to keep the city moving in that direction.
4. What are three major issues in Emeryville that need to be addressed now? What creative ideas do you have to address these issues?
Right now, the Sutter hospital proposal is the biggest news in town. I want us to band together as a city to force Sutter to work with us toward a vision that respects our city’s values… or for us to decline them coming here as a united front. Removing Flock Cameras and making it so Emeryville no longer so easily sacrifices the privacy of innocent residents on empty promises from tech companies and police unions. Working harder to fight for tenants and low income residents who want to own homes. Emeryville lacks rent control and other tenant protections that would really help our most vulnerable residents stay here and thrive.
5. Lack of collegiality has been a big issue for the Emeryville City Council over the last few years. How can this best be addressed?
I care a lot about maintaining respectful professional relationships with people I disagree with. We usually agree on what we want our results to be, but just need to compromise and communicate effectively to get there in ways we can all get on board with. Working as a manager for large and small companies with big fiery personalities arguing about what’s most important every day has taught me how to choose my battles, find alignment in seas of chaos and contention, and act on those alignments in incremental ways. This builds trust and makes it easier for a wide variety of perspectives to start seeing a common vision more clearly.
6. At 1.8 people per housing unit, Emeryville is the lowest in the East Bay and that has not changed for decades. Since attracting more families is an official goal of the City, what is Emeryville not doing right as far as attracting families goes?
A few things. Obviously, the rent is too high. A big part of my platform is working to improve transparency, affordability, and tenant bargaining power in our city to help with that. Growing families who need to size-up may actually be able to stay if we can improve this. Another issue is our schools. Emeryville needs to focus more of our efforts on providing more inclusive, smarter funded, and prioritized schools for local kids. Too many parents I know here send their kids to other places for various reasons, and we need to do a better job listening to them. Finally, I think our continued improvements to street safety and our parks will help in big dollar efficient ways. Few things make a parent’s life easier than knowing their kids can play, skate, shoot hoops, or engage in other healthy community activities safely without spending a dime.
7. How can citizen engagement be improved? How will you make yourself available and listen to your constituents?
I like the new city website, but I feel like it lost some of its usability. I’d like us to be able to subscribe to specific interests in the city so we can receive more targeted communications about events, volunteer opportunities, and meetings we care about.
I also like how responsive local reps are to their city email addresses. I plan to continue doing the same, and personally, I plan to keep being transparent and forthcoming about whatever I’m allowed to talk about on my own website. That won’t change after the election.
Finally, I value our scrappy small press outlets. As long as I feel they treat me with kindness and respect, I hope to be pretty open and candid to their questions when I can be. I work full-time, serve on my HOA board, and (hopefully) serve on city council soon though, so my time and energy won’t be infinite.
8. Does transparency in City decisions need improvement? Do you believe it has improved during the past four years? How?
I think it’s pretty good here. I’d like it if we could get transcripts or minutes added to the YouTube recordings of public meetings so it’s easier to navigate the 3+ hour meeting agendas and find the parts we care most about. I’m not sure if it’s improved much beyond the website update I mentioned earlier in 4 years. Hard to know what I just learned about that’s always been there versus what’s new sometimes.
9. Do you fully support the General Plan? What problems, if any, do you see with the General Plan?
Yes, but I’d like a few additions.I’d like to strengthen our commitment to being a sanctuary city for everyone. Federal cuts and attacks hitting us over the last several years needs to be answered by constructing our own safety nets. We can’t rely on those larger systems to protect our most vulnerable residents. ICE watches, mutual aid, and other community organizing we’ve responded with is inspiring, but we can do more as a city to bolster those services and protections.
Smart housing policy to both build more of it and stabilize cost of living as best as we can in the near term.
I want us to focus on more creative and effective solutions for public safety than just continuing to our ballooning police budget.
I’d like to add more ways for pedestrians and bikes to cross the train tracks, highways, and other difficult barriers. I know this falls under some of the other points, but I’d be more explicit about that.
10. Emeryville does not have nearly enough park land according to the General Plan. Do you support three acres of park per 1000 residents as the General Plan describes?
Yes, and I think big projects like the utter Hospital coming in are great ways to demand investment from those entities in building it. We need to come to the negotiating table to demand that these corporations act like Emeryvillains and are ready to support our values and vision for the future of our city together.11. Building a public library has been talked about by various Council members quite a lot over the years. Do you support Emeryville getting a public library? If so, how?
No, I get along just fine using the Golden Gate Library in Oakland. I don’t think it’s a bad idea to have our own, but we’re a small city with lots of neighbors. We don’t have to do our own versions of everything our neighbors readily allow our citizens to access. I love the spirit of that too.12. What informs you as to how much new market rate housing to accept if not ABAG’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment numbers or the General Plan?
The more housing we can feasibly build the better. Whether it’s revamped lofts in existing structures, luxury condos, ADUs, or affordable housing units, all of it improves housing stock and gives Emeryville residents more options to choose from to live here. It may sound like a rubber stamp for any new housing of any kind, but I’m particular to more than numbers in spreadsheets. I need the construction to make sense for our communities. I need the developer to consult our residents on what we want and don’t want there. I don’t want more car-dependent infrastructure. These projects need to be well-designed for both form and function.13. Please elaborate to us your ideas on new rental housing versus ownership housing. What’s the proper mix and how to achieve it? The General Plan says we should be increasing ownership housing over rental housing, do you agree with this goal?
I love condos. It’s how I live and plan to continue living here. Half our complex here at Bridgewater was cleaved away to transform into rentals in Artistry Apartments. These buildings don’t have to be designed and built all that differently whether we want renters or owners in them.
I like density over single family homes whenever possible. I like diverse mixed-use housing near transit and shopping hubs. I prefer mom & pop landlords with one or two rental units over giant corporate landlords with thousands. Essentially, I think we can do both and adjust between the two modes as needed over time.
14. Some cities have created ‘quiet’ streets, those being streets with much reduced vehicle traffic (cars and trucks). Emeryville did this on Doyle Street. Is this something that could or should be replicated on other residential streets?
I’d leave that to those neighborhoods to decide and lobby for. I’d love to see some streets closed to car traffic entirely too, where it makes sense.15. Emeryville’s Active Transportation Plan (ATP) cites the National Association of City Officials (NACTO) guidelines as a guiding document. NACTO says bike boulevards should have no more than 3000 vehicle trips per day. Do you support this metric?
I’m not an expert in these regulatory figures, and frankly my friends and neighbors who bike and walk everywhere like I do never really talk about them. We talk about structural design solutions to slow traffic, make space for alternative travel methods, and costs and reliability of public transit. Squabbling over numbers like these is often a distraction from pragmatic action.16. Many developers chose to not rent out their storefront retail associated with the apartment developments they build in Emeryville. The City requires them to provide retail space but does not require them to rent it out. What can be done to fix this problem?
Adding that requirement to our policies is the most obvious possible solution. Another is applying vacancy taxes to these spaces. Finally, I’d add incentives or city partnerships for ways to avoid these penalties if they loaned that space temporarily to local artists or other organizations for free use until they find a tenant.17. Emeryville’s minimum wage ordinance was attacked by the council majority in the past when they attempted to roll back the wages of working poor people. Will you commit to protecting this landmark ordinance?
Yes. I think a far more effective way to make sure steadily increasing wages doesn’t disproportionately impact smaller local businesses is to hold bigger non-local companies to a higher standard. For example, a 5-person bakery co-op doesn’t have to pay as much in payroll taxes as a national chain with thousands of employees. We could also focus on locality and provide breaks to organizations headquartered in Emeryville.I also believe that working to stabilize or reduce cost of living here eases demand on bigger wage numbers. We can and need to continuously do both in a society built on predatory unfettered capitalist greed.
18. Artificial Intelligence — What problems to you think Artificial Intelligence poses to society, and what actions would you support on the City Council to eliminate or reduce these threats?
I could write a book about this, but I’ll try to summarize.I believe generative AI for any public materials should be banned from city usage. We’re a city that cares about humans, artists, writers, and craftspeople. We have to live our values and not let Sam Altman take those people’s commissions and wages away from them.
I don’t mind individual people using LLMs to check their spelling, organize data tables that’ll be checked by a human being before going out, or do other rudimentary office tasks they’re suited for. But I don’t want them used to replace human workers of any kind.
And I don’t think the city should spend taxpayer money on these oversold, unreliable, biased, environmentally unfriendly, and increasingly expensive tools that will only get more expensive as their economic bubble continues bursting in coming years and their VCs demand they raise their token prices to get their money back out of it.
19. Coal — Do you commit to doing whatever you can to protect the health of your constituents living and working near a projected coal terminal in West Oakland or along rail lines that could transport coal to the terminal? If the Bay Area Air District is asked to approve permits for this site, will you support a new Environmental Impact Report to fully inform the public and decision-makers of the range and severity of impacts that such a coal terminal would have, not only at the terminal site but all along the rail route? Further, will you support strong and enforceable regulation by the Air District to minimize potential harms if coal is handled at this facility?
I will fight this coal terminal with every feasible legal action available to me in my role as a councilmember. If we fail — which I don’t think we will — I will fight for exposing every harm it does to our citizens and do my best to enable them to seek justice against its perpetrators. I will support regulation for air quality until the day I die to protect our Bay Area residents from one of the most deadly hazards we face today. Harms especially experienced by our older, disabled, and youngest residents we value dearly.20. Who has endorsed you so far (groups and individuals of note)? Who are you endorsing in local races?
It’s early in my endorsement work, but you can find them all on my website at https://corry4emeryville.com/endorsements 21. How much money do you currently have for this race? How much money do you plan to raise? Where will the money come from?
I’m running an entirely grassroots DIY volunteer-run campaign where I only accept donations from individuals. I have not yet passed the $2,000 mark for qualifying for FPPC’s next tier of filing, but I’ve already pre-filed that document and will be ready if and when we do. I doubt we’ll get much more than that.Extra- Is there anything else you’d like to tell us about yourself? Are there other issues you would like to address not included as questions here?
Please feel free to browse my campaign website (and my personal site as well if you like) to get a really full sense of where I stand and how I arrived here. I’m an open book, and I welcome you to read and ask me about it.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
[8/23/2026] The Green Party of Alameda County’s Reply
I never received a reply from them about the status or publishing of my answers, even after I followed up with them.
When I later went to their website to find the questionnaires they said they’d post there, all I found was their Green Voter Guide. Which doesn’t link to the actual questionnaires of any of the candidates. This is why I posted my answers above.
[10/14/2026] What The Alameda Green Party Wrote About Me
What I eventually saw (Greg never returned my emails after September 21st) was disappointing.
Their printed and PDF voter guide: https://acgreens.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/gpac_vg_november26_final_web-1.pdf (file last modified 10/14/2026 at 3:50pm)
After voting Priforce, progressives have a choice: Brandon Soublet or Corry Frydlewicz. The choice for progressives is not clear here because both candidates expound their progressive bonafides but one seems more credible: Brandon Soublet.
Soublet’s answers to our questionnaire were unequivocal on Emeryville’s Active Transportation Plan: he fully supports it, including provisions to limit vehicle traffic volume to less than 3000 per day on bike boulevards. Frydlewicz on the other hand equivocated, suggesting that settled number should not be deferred to. But more importantly, we have a problem with her take on housing which defers
to real estate developers. Tacking to a simplistic “supply and demand” argument favored by YIMBYist developers, she says the problem with Emeryville is the city council has not built nearly enough housing and prices will come down if we just lower regulation on real estate investment
trust corporations. It’s an absurdist top-down argument that belies the real world, especially in Emeryville where proportionately more housing has been built than any city in the East Bay over the last 10 years resulting in the highest rent in the East Bay. Corry needs to factor in how American
style capitalism actually works, not just repeat baseless YIMBY talking points.
This take is pretty wild to me, but I’m also far from biased in the matter. I especially don’t know where they got “prices will come down if we just lower regulation on real estate investment trust corporations” anywhere from my answers or from my detailed page about Housing Affordability.
They wisely endorsed Daria Wrubel for Berkeley’s District 1 race, and she has a nearly identical platform to mine.
What do you think?