-Capitol Weekly, October 1, 2009 by John Howard
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=yb3tpdhr9clsh5&xid=yb3frcf559pqdb&done=.yb3tpdhr9d5sh5
Nine of the commission’s 14 members, liberals and conservatives, endorsed the proposals. Commission member Christopher Edley Jr., the dean of the Boalt Hall Law School, called it a search for the “pragmatic center.”
-KQED Forum, October 1, 2009 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R910010900
“There is a difficulty, there’s uncertainty that is always going to be associated with any kind of change that’s bold. The only things that you can have total confidence in are the status quo. So, from the start, the issues that the legislature and the public face is, ‘Are we concerned enough with the problems in the current system that we’re willing to swallow a little bit of uncertainty in order to make a change that may have a very positive upside?'”
-Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2009 by George Skelton
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap1-2009oct01,0,4401051.column
The commission toyed with recommending an increase in commercial property taxes, said one liberal member, UC Berkeley law school dean Christopher Edley Jr., but that quickly became “a total nonstarter. I mean, forget first base. It didn’t even get out of the batter’s box.”