The Sacramento Bee, October 11, 2009 by John Cogan and Chris Edley Jr.
http://www.sacbee.com/740/story/2248977.html

We believe the commission’s product is sufficiently promising that our lawmakers ought fully evaluate the package as a whole, make needed adjustments, and then bring the matter to a vote.

-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.”

Times-Standard, September 28, 2009 by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_13436569

During a recent commission meeting at the University of California Los Angeles, Commissioner Christopher Edley Jr. said it’s not surprising that the proposals are being met with skepticism by some. “Any effort to be bold will be fraught with uncertainty, and that produces anxiety,” he said.

-Ventura County Star, September 20, 2009 by Timm Herdt
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/sep/20/proposed-state-tax-would-be-paid-by-businesses/

While acknowledging that the BNRT “represents an extraordinary change in California’s tax code,” Commissioners John Cogan and Chris Edley summed up the commission’s prevailing view in a Sept. 9 memo: “We believe the BNRT is sufficiently promising to warrant the commission’s recommendation that the Legislature and the governor proceed with a public process to fully evaluate the BNRT (and) to enact a BNRT into law.”

-Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2009 by Peter Schrag
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-schrag21-2009sep21,0,6384800,print.story

It’s “absolutely” not a tax system he’d design, Edley said, but somehow Sacramento’s inertia had to be broken. Under the commission’s BNRT proposal, all California businesses would pay a tax, probably about 4%, on their net receipts, which would be calculated by subtracting the cost of the goods they’ve purchased from their gross receipts.

-KCRW, Which Way, L.A.?, September 21, 2009 Host Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww090921trying_to_fix_medica

“I think we’ve done a pretty good job of not changing the basic progressive structure of the income tax. And the package as a whole, looking at all the different elements of it, we think is pretty close to neutral in terms of progressivity.”

-Orange County Register, September 29, 2009 by Brian Joseph
http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/29/tax-commission-makes-recommendations-but-will-it-amount-to-anything/22555/

“I can’t recall anybody in particular who supported the BNRT at our public hearing,” Edley said. “But I also remember distinctly feeling each person who spoke for opposing it was not fully familiar with what we were working on.”

-The Sacramento Bee, September 9, 2009 by Kevin Yamamura
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/025307.html

John Cogan, a Hoover Institution fellow, and Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, issued a joint memo to their colleagues supporting the plan….”We are confident that the tax package is the right course for California,” they wrote. “We also recognize that the BNRT (business net receipts tax) represents an extraordinary change in California’s tax code. A tax change of this magnitude should only occur after the proposal has been fully vetted and all of its ramifications have been fully assessed by the Legislature and the governor and the public.”

-Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2009 by Eric Bailey
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-me-taxes15-2009sep15,0,6431594.story

Christopher Edley Jr., dean and professor at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, acknowledged that the plan could be a difficult sell but said, “I do believe, in balance … it’s good for California’s future.”

-KQED Radio, August 17, 2009 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R908171730

“The fact that he is, in my judgment, wrong, or the fact that he went to Washington and espoused views with which I disagree, and with which I think the vast bulk of academics disagree, is not in itself grounds for dismissing a faculty member at a university. Unpopularity is not sufficient. Criminality of a high order would be.”

-The Associated Press, August 17, 2009 by Terrence Chea
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_13147497

Christopher Edley Jr., Berkeley’s law school dean, has rejected calls to dismiss Yoo, saying the university doesn’t have the resources to investigate his Justice Department work, which involved classified intelligence.