Author Archives: David W. Maury

Here is some American political history you probably didn’t know:

“Christians are not known as a big voting group. They don’t vote,” says a major candidate in the United States 2024 presidential election, publicly. 

I didn’t know.

Some background: In 2020, about 214 million Americans were Christian. That’s 65% of the total population of 329.5 million, depending on who is counting. 

Continuing: Four years ago, in the 2020 presidential election, a record-breaking 155 million Americans went to the polls. 81 million voted for Biden, 74 million voted for Trump.

But since 214 million Christians were not a big voting group in the 2020 presidential election, this leaves almost 115 million non-Christian likely voters. And even if every one of them voted, there are still 40 million American voters unaccounted for, missing in action, since “Christians are not known as a big voting group. They don’t vote.”  With that kind of math, we can certainly appreciate why that 2024 major presidential candidate insists that the 2020 election was rigged. 

Don’t let anyone stop you from joining together, and joyously drinking the Kool-Aid: “Christians are not known as a big voting group. They don’t vote.” says a major candidate in the United States 2024 presidential election, publicly.

(Also posted on NextDoor, LinkedIn) Unbelievably, there are people who are seriously proposing to tear down the Marina del Rey Freeway (S-90). Its removal would be part of the Marina Central Project. 

To her credit, in her Unincorporated Communities Newsletter, 2nd District Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell acknowledges the recent discussion, and that the proposal to tear down the 90 is being submitted by Streets for All, a non-profit organization that has already submitted an application for federal funding of a feasibility study. 

Mitchell writes, “While I did not sign-on as a supporter on the organization’s application to fund the feasibility study, I do support a detailed assessment with full community input that includes the lived experiences of Angelenos who reside near and regularly use the freeway before any decisions to alter the freeway can be made . . .  It is important to note that, as of now and for the immediate future, there are no approved plans to alter the Marina Freeway, and the feasibility study that would be required has yet to be approved.” 

If you are not already signed up for the newsletter, you can do so by visiting the supervisor’s website, Mitchell.LACounty.gov. 

Supervisor Mitchell also makes a briefer statement on her website, which you can read by visiting https://mitchell.lacounty.gov/marina-central-project/

Supervisor Mitchell’s comments are a sane and respectable reply. She is NOT referring to the segment as the ‘Freeway to Nowhere’. For any other political leaders that continue using that description– I will continue to recap my view, undoubtedly share by many,  that all of us who traverse or are connected by the Marina del Rey Freeway (S-90) are members of communities that certainly don’t appreciate being characterized as ‘NOWHERE’ — even if that term best describes the inevitable destination of this very unpaved proposal.