The Record, Nov. 2, 2008 by Chris Edley
http://www.northjersey.com/opinion/moreviews/33709679.html
“Voting is a fundamental right, but as I saw on the Carter-Ford commission and again as a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Election Day resource disparities have enormously different racial and class impacts that are based on the dynamics of power and poverty.”
NPR, Tell Me More, Oct. 31, 2008 with Host Michel Martin
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96373763
“People died, people bled to get voting rights. And to have this election, the quality of this election, the enthusiasm that so many voters feel about this election, imperiled because of maladministration would be deeply tragic, especially when it’s easy to fix.”
The Washington Post, Oct. 28, 2008 by Christopher Edley, Jr.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702405_pf.html
“Suppose in your neighborhood there are 600 registered voters per machine, while across town there are only 120 per machine…. On Election Day, your line wraps around the block and looks to be a four-hour wait, while in other areas lines are nonexistent. This ought to be a crime. It amounts to a “time-tax” on your right to vote, and some of your neighbors will undoubtedly give up and go home…. Voting rights advocates, watching this slow-motion train wreck that could disenfranchise so many minority voters, have filed emergency litigation in Virginia and Pennsylvania.”
USA Today, Oct. 15, by Sheryl McCarthy
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/10/the-nations-cha.html
“Whether you’re talking about financing Social Security or about the basic social cohesion of the country, if our racial trends cause a continuation of our inequality trends, we’ll be in very deep trouble,” says Christopher Edley, the dean of the Boalt Hall Law School at the University of California, Berkeley.
National Law Journal, September 15, by Peter Page
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202424501401
“There are not enough public service jobs for the lawyers who want them,” he said. “That is the real obstacle to having a larger portion of our students in public service.” He added: “Congress is getting off easy wrapping itself in glory for passing debt forgiveness while slashing legal aid funding.”
The New York Times, September 10, by Sam Dillon
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/politics/10educate.html?sq=Berkeley&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print
“Barack became committed to the notion that progress in school reform can’t come through volunteerism and professional aspiration alone,” said Mr. Edley. “It has to be undergirded with a legal and regulatory structure that rewards success and goes after failure.”
-Associated Press, August 24, by Stephen Ohlemacher
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/elections/x809657502/Dems-give-Michigan-and-Florida-full-voting-rights
Democrats hope the gesture will strengthen their standing in two important battleground states while ending a contentious chapter of the nominating process. “The only way we will be successful is if we are unified as a party and all Democrats know we are full partners,” said Chris Edley, Jr., a committee member from California who introduced the resolution to restore Florida’s votes.
-The Ledger, August 24, Lloyd Dunkelberger
http://www.theledger.com/article/20080824/NEWS/808240385&title=All_Fla__Delegates_in_Place
“The only way we will be successful is if we are unified as a party,” said Chris Edley, a committee member from California and a Berkeley law professor who once taught Obama.
The New York Sun, August 22, by Elizabeth Green
http://www.nysun.com/national/mystery-emerges-on-where-obama-stands-in/84433/?print=4139890221
“There is no education policy Svengali or Rasputin,” Mr. Edley said. “His approach has consistently been to try to ignore the politics and the factions and focus on sensible policies that have a basis in the research, and let the chips fall where they may.”
Oakland Tribune, June 3, by Tammerlin Drummond
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/elections/ci_9471385
Chris Edley, a senior advisor for the Obama campaign … says he is already focused on what comes next in the general election…. “If he wins,” Edley said, “he’s going to need to have the moral power to tackle the big challenges.”
Oakland Tribune, June 2, by Angela Woodall
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_9460127?source=most_emailed
Finding solutions to the daunting problems facing the country will take a president with “extraordinary intelligence, extraordinary political skills and an imperturbable moral compass.”