THE CALIFORNIA 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE POPULIST MOVEMENT WITH A MEANING FOR ALL AMERICA.

ByJames Stanbery '65. Jericho (N.Y.): Exposition Press, 1974. 160 pp. $6.

This book has one main purpose: to enlist you in a California movement for all America. Begun in 1973, peaking in '78, a campaign to take the New Politics to all people in fresh terms and tactics, a Populist campaign toward complete social democracy as this century comes to a close. As the author sees it, populism blends the best of Left Socialism and Right Libertananism for a new consensus, the goal of the California 2000 Campaign. Populists are disenchanted with present state fiscal policy, de- mand basic changes in taxes and expenditures, and insist that tax injustice end and spending priorities shift. This is what "The California 2000 Campaign" is all about. The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence is the Populist credo. "That is our vision for California and America.

A native southern Californian, Stanbery is Associate Professor of Political Science at Los Angeles Harbor College. Despite his Republican heritage, dating back to Henry Stanbery (U.S. Attorney General under Lincoln), and despite his political environment, at the age of 31 he has embarked on a bold, imaginative, and personal political campaign to sponsor an initiative petition in the 1978 California election as a draft "Resolution on California Fiscal Policy." Concurrently he aspires to be elected treasurer of the State of California, which would put him in an effective role during the period when the "10 Point Program of Political Reform" becomes effective. He summarizes his goals as (1) remove the wealthy from welfare, (2) deal with the energy crisis while restoring ecological balance, (3) maintain full employment as we convert to a peace-based economy, guaranteeing every person something worth doing and a fair wage for doing it, and (4) equalize rights, legalize freedom, and end the crime of punishment.

The son of George Ray Wicker (1870-1917),Dartmouth Professor of Economics, Mr.Wicker, a retired Californian realtor, takes anactive interest in politics and social reform.