Reclaim California

Reclaim California is a modern day look at what has happened since California became America’s thirty first state in 1850. Since then, there have been at least a couple of hundred attempts to make California smaller through dividing it into more than just one state. Today, the once golden state has a population larger than the entire country of Canada. As California’s Governor Jerry Brown said way back in 1974, “Small is Beautiful.” Now, Brown is back again in the middle of serving his unprecedented third term as governor.

Author Stan Statham looks here at his personal attempt to accomplish three smaller “Californias,” while he served in California’s Assembly from 1976 to 1994. That is among the reasons the then-powerful Speaker of the Assembly Willie Brown has written the foreword to this informative manuscript. In this book you will learn more about the once golden state and the justification for its division.