Mayor Robert Garcia of Long Beach, California

11/01/2016

Mayor Robert Garcia

c/o Office of The Mayor

City of Long Beach

333 West Ocean Blvd, 14^th Floor

Long Beach, CA  90802

Dear Mayor Garcia,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history with public policy.  In these subjects, I like to learn the need to advance on Civil Rights to help protect people who are different from being discriminated, protect the environment from pollution, find ways to improve public safety, and many others. Mayor Garcia, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is because I find your work as 28^th Mayor of Long Beach, California to be very inspiring to me, share with you   how you motivate me to work hard on my disability, and to wish you a Happy Birthday for December 2^nd.

In 2014, I was amazed on how you made history by becoming the first openly gay person  and become the first Latino to become Mayor of Long Beach, California.   In your current role ad 28^th Mayor of Long Beach, California, I am very proud on how you are a strong supporter of protecting women, minorities, people with disabilities, and people with different sexual orientation from being discriminated in education and public places. Also on Civil Rights, I like on how you support funding women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy, advocate for people with disabilities’ rights, support LQBT rights, work with minorities communities to find ways to reduce racial profiling, and expand laws to help combat against people who commit hate-crime.  Funding special education to help students with disabilities get the educational resources they need to help them learn, expanding on after school programs to help youth get help on their assignments from tutors, working with public schools to combat against bullying by expand on educational awareness with counseling to make education a safe environment from people to learn, and investing funds in arts including educational technology to make education diverse are great ways to make education reform stronger. On the environment, I like on how you support funding renewable energy projects to help reduce addiction to oil with gas including pollution, working with different industries or companies to find ways to create clean energy jobs to make the environment a better place along with a clean economy, providing funds to help clean up parks including water resources including beaches to make them safe for people to use. You approach to improve the economy like expand on job-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop job skills to help them be prepared for the workforce, work with technology companies to work on hiring women including minorities to work in tech jobs, and encourage businesses with industries to use energy-efficient products to reduce high energy cost is common sense. Another thing that I like about your work as Mayor of Long Beach, California is how you are very committed to improve public safety by working to fix infrastructure like highways or filling potholes to make them safe for people to drive, hiring police officers to help patrol the streets, pushing for treatment programs to help drug addicts get the care they need,  and implementing community services to help rehabilitate non-violent offender including juveniles, providing educational awareness about reducing gun violence.

Mayor Garcia, I have Autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights and be an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  In Also your role as current Mayor motivates me to continue my interest in learning history with public policy. My future goal is to someday work in public policy to help shape up common sense ideas.  My letter is a gift to you for inspiring me and to wish you a Happy Birthday for December 2^nd. My birthday is also in December month that is December 3^rd.

I strongly believe that you make a great difference in your current role as Mayor. I’m very proud on how you made history by making a great achievement to become the first openly gay and fist Latino to become Mayor.  Also I like on how you work hard to make Civil Rights stronger, protect the environment, improve the community, and many others.  You have truly inspired me to work hard on my disability, continue to work hard at overcome different challenges, and motivate to continue my interest in learning history with public policy. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make history with great achievements, and inspiring me.  I wish you well to continue to make a great difference and continue to make great achievements.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick