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9/2/2015
Ms. Janet Napolitano
c/o Office of the President
University of California
1111 Franklin Street, 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
USA
Dear President Napolitano,
My name is Matthew Winick and I
have a strong interest in studying history. The main reason I like studying
history is to learn the need to make Civil Rights stronger to help protect
people who are different from discrimination, protect the environment from
pollution by implementing environmental protection with supporting renewable
energy, improving healthcare to help people get the care they need, and many
others. President Napolitano, I find
your work as an attorney, as U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, as
Governor of Arizona, and later as Secretary of Homeland Security to be very
inspiring to me.
When you were an attorney I liked
on how you had the courage to be representing Anita Hill when she testified in
the Senate Judiciary Committee against the U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence
Thomas about how Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her when they both
worked in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when the members of the
Senate Judiciary Committee including the media said harsh words or were very
critical about Ms. Hill’s testimony. In your role as U.S. attorney for the District
of Arizona, your commitment to find ways to reduce gun violence is common sense
by pushing for laws to regulate guns sales, background checks to reduce a
criminal from buying a weapon, and Youth Handgun Safety Act to make transfer of
a gun or a handgun to a minor illegal when it will be used in a crime to help
reduce youth violence. Also in your role
as U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona, I liked on how you pushed for the
need to reduce violence against women by prosecuting violent offenders who
travel to different states to commit a domestic violence and help women who are
victims of violence or abuse get counseling, treatment with therapy that they
need to improve mental health. As
Governor of Arizona in 2003-2009, I liked your commitment to be a supporter of Civil
Rights to help protect minorities, women, and people with disabilities from
being discriminated. On improving the
quality of the environment, I liked on how you supported and pushed for
renewable energy like wind, solar, energy efficient products, and biofuel to
reduce pollution and even reduce addiction to oil with gas. On healthcare, I was amazed on your health
care reform to improve long-term care for seniors including people with
disabilities by finding ways to reduce high prescription cost of medicine,
improve nursing homes to make them more efficient on taking care of patients,
and expand on programs to help assist seniors including people with
disabilities on learning different things and doing activities. I was amazed by your commitment to improve
education by increasing teacher’s pay to help teachers keep their jobs with
working on improving their standards and push for voluntary all day
kindergarten to help kindergartens get assistance on learning while giving
parents an option to choose whether they can decide to allow their children to
do full day kindergarten or do a half day kindergarten. To work hard on finding ways to improve public
safety along with finding ways to reduce counter terrorism, I was very proud of
you accepting President Obama nomination of being Secretary of Homeland
Security. In your role as Secretary of
Homeland Security, I liked on how you worked hard making the department work
with state law enforcement and local law enforcement to find ways to reduce
crime. Also I was very proud of you working hard to get funding for law
enforcement including technology to reduce crime along with advocating for the
need for ways to create law enforcement jobs when Congress from both political
parties were not keen on the idea of using money to help reduce crime.
President Napolitano, your work
on finding ways to reduce crime with protecting people who are different from
being discriminated or targeted by a hate crime got me very interested in
taking an Intro to Criminal Justice class at Washtenaw Community College in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. In the class, I got to learn about how the courts work, Miranda
laws, law enforcement, different ways to reduce crime along with violence, and
learn different ideas of reform to the system to reduce crime while protecting
people’s civil liberties. My instructor
was very helpful and worked with me on creating ideas to reform the criminal
justice system like have treatment programs with community services for
non-violent offenders including juveniles with drug users to help rehabilitate
them, have educational programs to address the need to reduce drug abuse, gun
violence, and sexual assault, have regulations on gun sales including
background checks to reduce gun violence, and expand on mental health programs
including counseling to help victims of crime or people with mental health
issue in order to improve public safety.
Also your work as Governor of Arizona helped me get interested in
history to understand the need to make society better by having Civil Rights to
reduce discrimination, protect the environment to reduce pollution with
improving public health, and many others.
I strongly
believe that you made a great difference for history with finding ways to make
society better, assisting women including victims of crime get the care they
need, and working hard to reduce crime in your role as attorney, U.S. Attorney
of Arizona, Governor of Arizona, and as Secretary of Homeland Security. Even though Congress was difficult to work
with I’m proud of your commitment to work hard with President Obama to make a
difference in our country. Thanks for
taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a difference, and
inspiring me to be interested in learning law, history, and the criminal
justice system. I wish you well on your role as President of University of
California where you can use ideas to make a difference.
Sincerely,
Matthew B. Winick
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