FAQ

When ICE escalated terrorizing our cities after the 2024 election, I was afraid. I began preparing to run to another country to avoid being put into an encampment or forcibly de-transitioned through prohibition of my essential medical care. Once my bag was packed and documents were in order, I imagined leaving and how hard it would be to leave my home behind. The first truly safe place I’ve ever lived, where I met and fostered my found family. I thought about the friends who already moved away and how I felt like we all got weaker without them here anymore.

So instead of running away, I decided to find ways a laid-off technical manager could use her skills to protect Emeryville, our sanctuary city. City council is the best place for me to make those kinds of impacts. 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 the council ignored the evidence against this type of surveillance (despite my and others’ public comments), it set me on my path. At the very least, my campaign aims to raise awareness about privacy issues and big tech’s lies. I hope whoever wins the seats does a better job addressing them.

Corry is dedicated to keeping Emeryville safe, affordable, and prosperous for everyday citizens while making sure federal agencies and big corporations can’t walk all over us.

She wants to remove surveillance tech that spies on us and sells our data to ICE. She’ll fight to make living here more affordable by building more housing and going after landlords who charge too much for rent. Corry wants to focus city resources on crime prevention rather than punishment. She aims to support small local businesses so they can compete with big chains. All while keeping city council productive and drama-free.

Learn more about her plans at corry4emeryville.com.

Surveillance and public safety are always tricky. The biggest problem is there’s no way to only surveil criminals without also spying on innocent people. Our families, neighbors, friends, and visitors are all caught in the net. In fact, it’s the vast majority of the data they store and sell.

Then we contend with who has access to that data. Our license plate readers (ALPR) and other cameras aren’t only visible to EPD. Flock and other big tech companies like it sell that data to whoever pays for it. That includes ICE, big corporations, debt collectors, and even individual stalkers. Not to mention all the breaches and unauthorized access to that data.

It creates a bigger safety risk to all of us — especially those most vulnerable — for the sake of catching maybe one or two more petty criminals per year. All while taking a chunk of our city budget to keep it running. We need to put an end to it.

Read more on Corry’s Public Safety and Surveillance Capitalism page.

The biggest expense we face every month is housing. Rent in Emeryville is out of control. We need to stick to our goals of building more affordable housing, while simultaneously squeezing big corporate landlords to play fairly. Corry is in favor of tactics like vacancy taxes, rent control, or even freezing rent to support our neighbors and help them get through our current economic struggles.

Corry also wants to work on making it more affordable to own a home in Emeryville, including grappling with high HOA dues and fees at assisted living facilities. We need fewer investors profiteering off struggling renters and more opportunities for housing stability.

Another place a lot of our money goes is groceries. While our small city doesn’t have much power in international supply chains and federal farm subsidies, we can empower local services like ECAP to help put food on the table for our most vulnerable neighbors. Corry would also advocate for more people using those services. They’re fantastic and can really help fill in the days between paychecks.

While we’re lucky to have local stores who don’t use surveillance pricing and jack up prices, the big chains do. They know we’re hungry enough to pay more. Big national chains charge us in the cities more to keep their stores in rural areas and other states open. We need to support small local businesses and make those big chains pay more to help balance these things out.

Read more on Corry’s Emeryville Issues page.

Rental housing is unaffordable because big corporations own too much of it. We can’t fight back without addressing that. I’d want us to encourage small landlords over big ones. I’d want to build in ways where private owners can independently rent their units out. It can allow us to more flexibly pivot between more ownership and more rentals as market conditions change.

As you said in the question, we’re mostly affected by our surrounding conditions. I’ll continue to push to repeal Costa Hawkins as an elected official, and use my voice in that role to manage up and continue trying to make that happen.

I wouldn’t touch the development fees until I had a better understanding of what they pay for. Those fees often pay salaries for people working to keep developers honest and on-track. We’re responsible for keeping the things built here safe, sustainable, and fitting within our city’s character. Some of our regulations can fail at those goals, and we can and should update and adjust them.

I think easing the bedroom restrictions is a good start. I get the intention behind it, but we can certainly dial down the minimums a bit.

Yes. There’s a big difference between the intent and impact of SB 800, which this bill seeks to update. I want us to build more multifamily homes, including condos like my own, and AB 1903 will help with that by strengthening the right to repair (something we should all have on a more universal level) and trying new ways to mitigate delays caused by litigation and the claims process. No law is ever perfect, but AB 1903 improves on the status quo.

Part of what scares folks away from home ownership in multifamily developments is HOA dues. When I see the BMR listings I sometimes get excited to send it to a friend who I’d love to move here, but then the HOA dues take it right out of their price range. I’d love to see us subsidize HOA dues, at least in these BMR units, but also possibly elsewhere too.

I’m a board member with my HOA, so I know a lot of what those dues go toward is insurance on top of more insurance. That industry has been gouging Americans for far too long, so I recommend y’all vote for Jane Kim for California Insurance Commissioner to hold them accountable to working families.

Not every HOA is as responsibly governed as ours, but much of what those dues go toward are worker wages and preventative maintenance via local contractors. Good investments that often stay within our local economy. It wouldn’t be the worst idea to support that.

AB 1482 holds rent increases to (5% + CPI) or 10%, which ends up around 8.5% recently. That may sound reasonable on paper, but it isn’t. Wages don’t go up that much every year. Most of us are already spending more than 50% of our income on housing, so the gap continues to worsen.

While gathering signatures from my neighbors, many of the renters weren’t registered in our city and couldn’t help. The most common reason for not updating their registration: their lease ends soon and they worry they’ll have to move again anyway.

We need better rent control in Emeryville. With rents ranging from $2,200 – $3,000 for 1 bedroom units, 8.5% adds over $180. We either need to reduce the percentage allowed, remove CPI from the equation, and/or perhaps even rethink it to a flat dollar amount.

Enforcement of local ordinances requires community engagement. Police can’t (and shouldn’t) address every issue. For example, our HOA hasn’t totally rooted out people illegally posting their homes on AirBnB. We appointed community volunteers to occasionally check the sites, submit takedown requests, and report units they find to our management office. We updated our CC&Rs and equipped management to investigate and charge fees to offenders in a timely enough manner to make it unprofitable and annoying. The fees more than pay for the effort. I’d love to see our city sue short term rental companies for allowing illegal listings within our borders at all. Until then we take action ourselves.

I love the potential of getting a hospital. It means good stable jobs, local access to care, and tax revenue. That said, we have to tread carefully planning construction around all our other city priorities. We must make sure we don’t concede too much control to Sutter without them paying their fair share to do business here and committing to staying for the long-term. Traffic, employee housing, and public safety are all major concerns we need answers about.

At the most recent presentation from Sutter, I was disappointed to see their proposal hadn’t changed much. They sought our feedback in previous outreach and we gave them plenty, but they came back to waste our time with sales pitches for a proposal that still doesn’t really address our residents’ concerns. They need to make some bigger moves toward our common goals, and stop wasting our time asking for feedback they’re just going to ignore.

Read my deep dive about the Sutter Hospital Proposal for more.

I was born and raised in New Jersey, moved to Phoenix for college, and graduated during the late-2000’s economic downturn. I chased any work I could find: Tucson, Vegas, Baltimore, then the Bay Area, which I immediately fell in love with.

I jumped from apartment to apartment for years fleeing rising rents to stay as long as I could. Even as my career evolved into technical management, I was barely outrunning the cost of living. When the pandemic hit, I was lucky to have a job I was effective at remotely. In 2021, interest rates were briefly low enough for me to bid on a small condo.

I chose Emeryville because I don’t need a car, we have good food and grocery stores, it’s dog-friendly and diverse. Since arriving, I met my wife here and made dozens of friends. I’ve participated in city events, engaged in council/committee meetings, contributed to SeeClickFix, and volunteered at shoreline cleanups.

Neighbors asked me to join our HOA board. I’ve thrived in the collaborative environment with common goals for bettering our community. We recovered from an expensive and disruptive siding project by engaging residents to rebuild common areas. We painted, revitalized landscaping, replaced fencing and lighting, all within budget. We improved resident communication and enforced bylaws with understanding, but also firmly for serious repeat offenders. I was re-elected last year and my neighbors were early supporters in my city council campaign.

Running for council has only confirmed how great our city is. The more of you I meet, the more I want to live here forever.

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.

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.

(Emeryville’s 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 bloat our 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.

Shortly after moving in, Corry attended her first HOA meeting. She introduced herself and asked a few questions. One of the board members pulled her aside and asked if she’d ever consider joining a committee, and she did. A year or so later, Corry was appointed, then later re-elected as a director on the HOA board. Since then, she’s joined more committees including co-founding their popular landscape committee.

Around the time Corry moved to Emeryville, she also joined the city’s bike and pedestrian committee for a walking tour and added feedback as a pedestrian and public transit user. She’s also participated in a few shoreline cleanups and other city events. She works full-time, participates in small community mutual aid activities, and takes care of her disabled spouse occasionally, so she appreciates that Emeryville’s Public Works team makes it so she can pitch in flexibly.

(Corry applied to join the Parks committee but hasn’t heard anything back yet, so maybe they’ll get back to her soon. Rogue — Corry’s pet chihuahua — has some notes for the Christie Dog Park.)

I work on the tech team of Gibbs Mura LLP, an Oakland-based law firm that sues big tech companies, banks, insurers, and other powerful corporations on behalf of regular citizens. You may have heard about some of our efforts against Meta, TikTok, and YouTube in the news recently. They also pursue data privacy cases against companies like Flock Safety and Motorola.

While not a lawyer, I help enable their legal teams with automations, data management, digital marketing, and website development so we can reach our thousands of clients on a given case.

Before that, I managed a team of web developers at Gap Inc. In 2023, just before my 8 year work anniversary, my whole department was wiped out by a massive layoff. I still have all the management skills and experience I gained from these roles, but the job market isn’t what it used to be. So I chose a role I’m passionate about, made difficult personal budgeting cuts, and lean on my community to keep my home and survive. Lots of people in Emeryville have to do the same, and I’m grateful I can.

I want to bring my skills in team leadership, project management, technical expertise, and communication to Emeryville City Council. The council had a solid group when I moved here in many ways, but certain decisions made it clear there was a lack of healthy technology-skepticism on the team. Combined with the time wasted by drama and delays in decision-making, our city’s ambitious and virtuous projects have lagged. I want to, at the very least, take a seat that will stop being a bottleneck for progress. I aspire to quickly learn what I can from our talented city staff, provide them with clear direction, pay them fairly, respond to them in a timely manner, and lead the council toward greater productivity.

Yes, as soon as possible. I stand with renters and tenant unions in favor of rent control and building safe, sustainable, attractive, dense housing.

Learn more: https://www.seiu1021.org/post/rent-control-all-repeal-costa-hawkins

1. Housing affordability, specifically rent, is my top priority. We’re in more of a state of emergency about housing than our current policies are built for. I want rent control, vacancy taxes, an eviction moratorium, and other tenant rights we don’t currently do a good enough job with.

2. Public Safety is next. I want to do more to prevent harm in the first place rather than just catch bad guys after the fact. We need to fund city services, schools, public spaces, and other proven effective methods for building community safety rather than pouring more money into militarized surveillance tech that just ends up in Wall Street’s pockets.

3. The Sutter project is an immense issue the next city council will impact. As it currently stands, I don’t see Sutter fitting Emeryville. I need to see more effort on their part to listen to our community, make real efforts to act on that feedback, and an acceptance for real, binding agreements from them (a CBA perhaps) before I even consider supporting this massive change.

4. Environmental sustainability is important. We’re on the right track making our streets safer and less car-dependent. We’re working toward mitigating sea level rise. I’d continue those efforts and more. I’d like a Coal-Free Emeryville resolution to work with neighboring cities against the push for a major fossil fuel terminal nearby. I’d also like to prevent future data centers from being built here, and act to regulate and tax the ones already here to help fund these initiatives.

5. I want to tax the big corporate chains more to help small local businesses compete and thrive. We have some great ones just getting by here, but I also want better support for my neighbors who want to open their own new businesses. Measure BB and programs like the BIPOC business program are great examples of ways we can do more to fill our empty storefronts, and I want more.

Measure BB is a good starting point for getting us back up-to-speed with revenue. Please vote Yes on Measure BB!

Beyond that, I’d like to see us do more than catch up. We need to make the tax rate even more progressive for the big corporations that stomp around our city and impact everything we do here far more than the rest of us do. I’d like to uncap the tax as well, because that seems totally unnecessary.

I also want to tax bad behavior. Many of our problems with empty buildings and high rents are based on landlords behaving badly. I’d like a vacancy tax for both residential and commercial properties to force owners to fill those spaces now, rather than hold out for higher rates or “more favorable market conditions”. I’d love to tax companies whose executives make more than 100x what their median employees make. I’d also like to tax excessive fossil fuel usage. Look at “How’s She Gonna Pay for That?” for more ideas and details.

In general, I’d rather raise revenue from the wealthy and powerful who got huge tax breaks at the federal level these last few years before cutting services that mostly help seniors, single parents, renters, and disabled folks. If I had to cut anything, I’d look at expensive tech we don’t benefit enough from (like Flock) or diversify the police department so we can have less expensive ways of responding to resident calls.

Police budgets are over-inflated everywhere in the U.S. and it’s brought us to this point where we see weapons and tools normally seen in warzones and prisons turned on innocent civilians just living our lives. I’ve lived in multiple cities in the Bay Area and Emeryville police are among the best of them, but no police force needs a tank, surveillance drones, or a huge network of AI powered cameras. We can certainly tighten our belts there. It serves us to reign it in.

I’m aware stating this makes me the target of one of the most powerful lobbies in American cities: the police union. Their interest is entirely in bloating police budgets in an unsustainable endless growth pattern. It may encourage Flock, Palantir, and other evil surveillance tech corporations to target me if I’m loud enough. But someone has to do it. Our city workers and the services they provide need those resources for things that actually help our families.

Though I’d rather not cut other services, if necessary I’d focus on where we’re outsourcing work beyond city borders. Expensive contractors, excessive tech licensing fees, nonsensical return-to-office mandates, and I’d listen to city staff to hear other ways to make their jobs easier and more productive.

Emeryville’s art is a huge part of our identity as a growing residential city. It breathes amazing life into our daily lives where previously only flat warehouse walls and utilitarian elements existed. Yes, the arts are a priority for me. They won’t take precedence over crisis management, safety, or affordability, but it’s definitely a necessity. I want to include creativity, design sense, and expression in anything we build together here.

And, relatedly, I want zero generative AI to take the place of funds we can put into artists’ pockets.

I love transparency and digital product management is my trade, so I can think of endless design solutions for providing insight into how the city’s projects are working. But the issues that slow things down will be the same if that’s all we do.

A cute dashboard that hasn’t been updated in months or has so little detail it’s not actually helpful isn’t good for anyone. It’s more time for residents to waste looking at stuff we don’t understand and get mad at under-resourced workers who’re now tasked with writing another regular report. It solves nothing.

We need to trust our city workers. They’ve been doing this stuff longer than any city council member has. Micromanaging them, adding more metrics to manage, or scapegoating them isn’t fair. We need to be more honest about how expensive it is to get anything done in 2026. Many politicians want to act like the government is endlessly wasteful and perform some sort of DOGE-like audit on everything, but we’ve seen how harmful that’s been at the federal level in recent years. It disrupts everything and cuts off funding to foundational sustained efforts the public had no idea about.

We have committees focused on much of this. Perhaps we encourage them to communicate better and more often with the public. But I wouldn’t task our workers with something that just amounts to a politician’s pet UI design project. I’d rather put those resources into bolstering the actual work.

Everyone wants AI regulation, including the companies themselves who want regulations to entrench them in our systems and pull up the ladder for new competitors. The federal government is ill-suited to do this, but it must. These issues are bigger than our city.

That said, we can’t just wait for that day. We’ve witnessed how harmful these structures have been in other cities. We’ll never be a good place for a hyperscale data center, but even the small ones are wasteful, don’t create many well-paying jobs, and mislead the public about what they actually do.

Data centers aren’t good for regular people. They’re mostly used by data brokers to sell information about us we never consented to giving them. Stolen art and other fruits of skilled labor used to wipe out jobs. They use it to charge us extra for groceries, raise our rent, or tell the FBI and ICE that we went to a No Kings protest. They’re not a boon to us, local or not.

I’d love to make any data center pay additional taxes toward environmental initiatives. I’d also like to force them to publicly provide regular (daily) manifests of what kind of data they’re storing for who as a condition of their presence here. I’d also require any third party tech the city employs to undergo regular cybersecurity audits between each contract extension so they aren’t leaking our data all over the planet.

And if that results in us not having them here… good.

No. The “safeguards” duping a lot of local politicians don’t actually exist. These companies don’t follow the rules, and never have. They’re more powerful than most of our cities. I love what Mayor Mamdani did in NYC against DoorDash, but no other city is that resourced to take on these giant corporations. Certainly not us.

What AI actually provides many of these companies is a black hole for accountability. Flock shows their AI a picture of your face and tells it to memorize it, then sells that AI to other cities, states, and federal agencies. It launders stolen data, often illegally gathered, and allows them to distribute it while pretending “they don’t sell our data”.

The same is true for digital platforms that harm people everyday. “Vibe coders” try to use these methods to say they’re not responsible for how their own systems work. They can’t check the work inside the black box. It’s proven to be systemically racist, sexist, and anti-LGBTQIA+.

AI use is a personal choice by individual human workers who must pay for those tokens or subscriptions themselves and accept all consequences of submitting work done while using it. None of our city budget should go toward providing or subsidizing any of it.

I also want an outright ban on any generative AI art being used by our city. We’re a city of artists. Posting flyers and social media banners with generated images is counter to everything we claim to care about.

When I moved to the Bay Area, Barbara Lee was my representative. Before I even got here, I knew I liked her for her lone opposition to the War in Iraq. She consistently stood up and did the right thing, even if she had to do it by herself, and I really admire that. When she represented me, she continued to do everything I’d want as my rep without me needing to badger her with letters and calls. When she stepped down, she endorsed Lateefah Simon, and I was sad to see her go but really liked Simon once I got to see her in action. I still support them both today in their roles as Mayor of Oakland and my Congressional rep.

I also really admire Elizabeth Warren. While she’s less popular than other politicians I support like Bernie Sanders and AOC, I loved her “I’ve got a plan for that” approach to policy-centered, facts-based, and effective legislation work. I try to emulate that spirit by being more transparent and detailed in my stances than most city council members. Her agency, the CFPB has saved millions of Americans from fraud, corporate abuse, and other unfair rip-off practices. I hope to be as good at actually getting good policy on the books and helping people as she’s been in her career.

Right now, I love the idea of AOC/Walz 2028 (or vice versa), but it’s too far away to really call yet. Plus, Walz already said he won’t do it again. But we need someone like him to bring some pragmatic midwestern no-nonsense leftist swagger to balance AOC’s sharp NYC big city vibe.

I’m not a religious person. I have my own thing going on, but I’ll use language I learned from being raised in an Episcopalian Christian household to illustrate my beliefs here. I believe a lot of these ideas and core beliefs transcend language and spiritual frameworks and can bring us together across those boundaries.

I believe privacy is a God-given right. Many belief systems in human history believed that photography takes something from us, whether it’s a piece of our soul, a violation of our purity, or something even more difficult to describe. I believe it’s easier now than ever before to see how much it costs us to not have privacy.

If I choose to give a part of my life to someone — say something as minor as sending a selfie to my mom — that’s mine to give. It has value and intent behind what I share and who I share it with. It means something highly contextual.

I don’t believe anyone else has the right to share information, images, or other data about me with others without my consent. I don’t believe I should have to spend hours or dollars finding ways to ineffectually beg data brokers to stop doing this.

It should be the other way around. If someone wants my info, they have to ask my permission for it. I want to send that selfie to my mom over cellular lines, using Google’s servers, and all the other little connections between after all, so I agree to their enormous privacy policies. At least they ask, offer something in return, and I can — as a Californian — retract my permission and delete my data any time.

I also understand why some folks want cameras in their businesses or homes. While I don’t like that someone’s Ring camera can record me walking past their house on a public sidewalk and do who-knows-what with that data, it’s much more understandable to me as a personal choice than when my city does it to me, with my tax dollars.

I never agreed to have my own government use my tax dollars to record and store data about me. Obviously, they need to keep some form of records on me for my driver’s license, my home’s title registration, and verifying no one else is pretending to be me. Some of these things are understandable prices to pay for living in modern society.

But there is no justification for 24/7 video or audio surveillance of public spaces.

If I were to moderate my strong beliefs about this, I could compromise a bit. I could say it might make sense to record traffic on a dangerous intersection to get justice for hit-and-runs. Perhaps store that footage for a couple days in case reports come in late. Great, makes sense.

But that video shouldn’t be in the hands of anyone outside my city who doesn’t have good reason to access it. No cloud-based server that can be hacked. No third party data center Wal-Mart uses to train their AI to raise prices on groceries. No unaccountable giant fascist tech conglomerate who aids ICE, the FBI, Border Patrol, and other hostile organizations. And certainly not for any third party organization to sell that data to any of the above.

None of that is worth the completely unproven safety benefits these companies claim.

If someone hit a kid on a bike in front of a gas station twenty years ago, the cops called the gas station to ask for the footage. They told them when the timeframe was, and why it was important. The gas station had the choice to cooperate or not. They usually did. Sometimes they could identify the driver from that footage. Great! There’s a lot of checks and balances between each of those steps to make sure no rogue cop or fascist CEO just gets a blank check to spy on everyone all day, use it to feed their AI, and sell it to whatever creeps on the internet want it.

And, obviously, none of that prevented the kid from being hit in the first place. These surveillance and police militarization tech companies often try to equate recording bad things happening with somehow preventing those things. It doesn’t make sense.

And, as if that wasn’t already enough, I don’t trust these corporations or police to always be perfectly vigilant about having this power over us. It only takes one bad apple to leak our data to the wrong person for ICE to tear someone away from their family. It only takes one hacker breaching Flock’s data canter to get full access to all the footage they’ve gathered on innocent residents since we signed their contract. It’s the opposite of safety for the most vulnerable among us.

Surveillance isn’t safety. Our privacy isn’t anyone else’s to give away without our consent. These beliefs are why I’m so passionate about DeFlocking Emeryville.

(This question is a summary of one I was asked by the Alameda County Jewish Democratic Club)

If I were to encounter instances of hate speech and discrimination in Emeryville, I would speak out against it. As for the larger question about Israel, that would be outside my role as a city councilmember. I don’t think it’s within the role of a city council to take a stand on international conflicts. For something like investment policies, I personally try very hard to only invest in companies I believe act ethically. I would apply that ethos to any investment questions before the council.

As an individual, I do not support the actions of the state of Israel and have not supported their treatment of Palestinian people for many years now. Nor do I support Hamas and its horrendous acts against Israelis. I am compassionate to everyone who’s lost loved ones in this long-standing conflict. I hate all war, violence, and terrorism and condemn all who take these actions, including our own country’s complicity in it.

If these views are enough to disqualify me from your endorsement, I respect that. But I believe in nuanced discussion and finding common ground. I hope we can disagree on tactics but agree on a safe, happy world for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

Absolutely. I’m likely the most transparent public figure ever, blogging the most embarrassing ideas I’ve had since I was a teenager. If the press has questions they can ask respectfully and in a non-harassing way (a necessary qualifier these days), I’d be happy to have the opportunity to give my perspective. Obviously, I’ll be constrained by law not to reveal some things.