Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania

12/20/2016

Governor Tom Wolf

c/o Office of the Governor

Main Capitol Building

501 N 3^rd Street, Room 225

Harrisburg, PA  17120

Dear Governor Wolf,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in studying history and public policy. The main reason I have a strong interest in studying these subjects is to learn the need to advance on Civil Rights to help protect people who are different from being discriminated, protect the environment from pollution, and many others. Governor Wolf, I find your work as current 47^th Governor of Pennsylvania to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as 47^th Governor of Pennsylvania, I like on how you are a strong supporter of protecting women, minorities, and people with disabilities’ from being discriminated in public places and education.  Also on Civil Rights, I like on how you support funding women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy, express the need to have equal pay for women to protect them from being discriminated based on gender, expand laws to combat against hate-crime to help protect people who are different, and advocate for people with disabilities’ rights.   On the environment, I like on how you signed an executive order to ban hydraulic fracturing in state parks to protect the environment along with make water resources safe for people to use and support renewable energy projects (wind, solar, biofuel, and energy efficient products) to reduce addiction to oil with gas.  Signing an executive order to banning gifts to state employees from lobbyist or lobbying groups, advocating for the need for campaign finance reform liked have disclosure to help people know who is donating from a campaign including reduce special interest groups from donating to a campaign to reduce corruption in elections along with public officials is common sense and a great way to reduce corruption.   On women’s rights, I like on how you support a women’s right to choose, expand funding for Planned Parenthood or other health clinics to help assist women to get healthcare, continue to support the need for women to have equal pay, and launch It’s On US PA campaign to expand awareness of the need to reduce sexual assault in schools along with college campuses including provide funds to them to help them have treatment programs or help train law enforcement.  Expanding early childhood education to help young children to develop learning skills, funding special education to help students with disabilities get educational resources they need to learn,  pushing for educational software in schools including colleges to help people or people with literacy problems get help on learning, and signing Fair Funding Formula into law to provide emergency funds to school districts that struggle financially to help them be a safe environment from children are great ways to education reform.  To improve the economy, I like on how you expand job-training programs to help youth including workers to develop job-skills to help prepare them for the workforce, push for programs to encourage women, minorities, and people with disabilities to get jobs, and provide funds to small businesses including industries to make American products to help our economy when free trade policies hurt our country.   Another thing that I like about your work as Governor of Pennsylvania is how you are strong supporter of protecting historical sites including national state parks by providing funds to help make learning a better place and to protect them from being damaged.

Governor Wolf, 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 a strong supporter of people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Your work on preserving historical sites including state parks motivates me to visit Pennsylvania.  In Pennsylvania, I enjoyed visiting Philadelphia where I visited the Betsy Ross House to learn about the creation of the American flag, see the Liberty Bell to learn about the American Revolution, and see the Ben Franklin historical site to learn about Ben Franklin’s work with how his role during the American Revolution, and The National Constitution Center where I learned about the founding fathers with the history of U.S. Constitution along with the amendments of it.  Also you role as current Governor of Pennsylvania drives me to continue my interest in learning history including public policy.   My future goal is to someday work in history to help make learning a better tool for people.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in your current role. I’m proud on how you work hard to make a great difference for society when there are challenges in the political systems.  You have truly inspired me to work hard on my disability, continue my interest in learning history with public policy, and visit Pennsylvania. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. I wish you well in your current role as Governor.   

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Mayor Philip Levine of Miami Beach, Florida

1/18/2017

Mayor Philip Levine

c/o Office of the Mayor & Commission

City of Miami Beach

1700 Convention Center Drive, 4^th Floor

Miami Beach, FL  33139

Dear Mayor Levine,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history including 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, and many others.  Mayor Levine, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is because I want to explain how I find your work as current Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida.

In your current role as Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, I’m very proud on how you are very committed to making Civil Rights stronger. Also on Civil Rights, I like on how you are an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights, express the need for women to have equal pay to help them from being discriminated in pay, support LQBT rights, push funds for women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy.  Pushing funds for renewable energy resources to reduce addiction to oil with gas, working with city government including tourism industries to find ways to keep coastlines with beaches clean from pollution, and expanding funds for cleaning parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use are great ways to protect the environment while reduce pollution.   Expanding training programs for U.S. Coast Guard Station Miami Beach with U.S. Coast Guard City of Miami Beach Government to help them be efficient on handling different situations in Miami, putting bike paths in the roads to help protect bikers from traffic accidents, and working with other constructions workers including the city government to find ways to reduce flooding along with the future of sea level rising by building high roads to keep water from flooding the streets and expand sea blocks to prevent water from causing damage, and advocating for high speed rail to help reduce traffic congestion are great ways to improve public safety.  On the economy, I like on how expand on job training programs to help train youth including workers to develop job skills to help them prepare them for the workforce, encourage small businesses including industries to use energy efficient products to reduce high energy cost, and support the need to raise the minimum wage to help workers afford to live.  Funding special education to help students with disabilities get educational resources they need, expanding on early childhood education to help young children develop reading skills, and pushing for afterschool programs to help youth get help on their assignments are great ways to make education reform stronger.  Another thing that I like about your work as current Mayor is how you are bipartisanship on working with moderate Republican Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez of Miami-Dade County Florida on finding ways to protect the environment from pollution and protect animals from being abused.

Mayor Levine, 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 being a strong supporter of Civil Rights and being an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also on your website I enjoy watching documentaries on your website about protecting the environment from pollution, working on solutions to reduce flooding with high sea levels, and many others. These documentaries including your ideas gives me a great message about the need to protect the environment including learning different alternative ways to make the environment a better place. Also your role as current Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida motivate me to continue my interest in learning history including public policy.  My future goal is to someday use what I learn from these subjects to work in history or public policy to help create common sense ideas.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in your current role as Mayor of  Miami Beach, Florida. I’m very proud on how you are using good leadership on protecting the environment, supporting Civil Rights, being bipartisanship, and many others. You have inspired me to work hard on my disability and to continue my interest in learning history with public policy.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference when there are obstacles in the political environment, and inspiring me. I wish you well to continue your role as Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Mayor Andrew D. Gillum of Tallahassee Florida

1/03/2017

Mayor Andrew Gillum

c/o Office of the Mayor

City of Tallahassee

300 South Adams Street

Tallahassee, FL  32301

Dear Mayor Gillum,

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, protect the environment from pollution, and many others.  Mayor Gillum, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work  as current Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida to be very inspiring to me and to share with you how I enjoyed listening to your DNC convention 2016 speech.

In your current role as Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida I’m very proud on how you are a strong supporter of protecting women, minorities, and people with disabilities’ from being discriminated in public places and education. 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, push for laws to combat against hate-crime, and express the need for women to have equal pay.  On the criminal justice reform, I liked on how you worked with City of Tallahassee including the police department along with community organizations to create Operation Safe Neighborhoods to increase law enforcement in neighborhoods to keep them safe from crime, expand treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug addiction, have community service for non-violent offenders including non-violent juveniles   be rehabilitated so they won’t re-offend, work with law enforcement to find ways to reduce racial profiling to protect minorities from being discriminated,  and push for funding for forensic science with DNA testing to reduce sending an innocent person into jail along with solve a crime efficiently. Launching “Tallahassee Mayoral Fellows Program” to give graduate students a chance to have an experience working for the city government and implementing “1,000 Mentors Initiative” to recruit men and women from different diversity to help youth in need along with expand youth mentoring programs to help youth get help on their education or keep them off from the streets are great ways to help the youth community and give them a chance to help an experience on understanding how city government works.  Your approach on education reform like expanding early childhood education to help them develop reading skills to help prepare them for school, funding special education to help students with disabilities’ get educational accommodations they need to learn, expanding after school programs to help youth get assistance on their assignments from tutors, and funding programs like arts including diversity classes to make the education system diverse are great ways to make education reform a better place.  On the economy, I like on how you expand on job-training programs to help youth including workers develop job-skills to help prepare them for the work force and encourage small businesses including industries to use energy efficient products to reduce high energy cost.  Pushing for funds to help clean up parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use and supporting renewable energy resources (solar, wind, biofuel, and energy efficient products) to reduce addiction to oil with gas are a great ways to protect the environment.

Mayor Gillum, 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 July 2016, I enjoyed watching your speech at the DNC because I liked on how you explained on how you work hard to overcome your struggles on getting an education along with overcoming different challenges and emphasized the need to reduce racial profiling in the law enforcement, and the need to repair relations between minorities and law enforcement. Your DNC speech along with your story about overcoming your struggles motivates me to learn that when there are challenges or obstacles it is important to not give up.  Also your role as current Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida drives me to continue my interest in learning history along with public policy.  My future goal is to someday work in history or public policy to help create common sense ideas to make society a better place.

Mayor Gillum, I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in your current role as Mayor. I’m proud on how you work hard to make great achievements.  Your DNC 2016 speech was great and had a great message. You have inspired me to work hard on my disability, continue my interest in history, and to listen to your speech. Here is a picture of me as a gift to you for inspiring me.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great difference, and inspiring me. I wish you well for the New Year and to continue to make a great impact on society.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Picture of Mayor Andrew Gillum that he sent me as a gift after I included a picture of me to him with my letter.

City of Tallahassee pin and City of Tallahassee cufflinks that Mayor Gillum sent me.

Former U.S. Senator Gary Hart from Colorado

11/01/2016

U.S. Senator Gary Hart

PO Box 461

Kittredge, CO  80457

Dear U.S. Senator Hart,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history including public policy.  In these subjects, I like to learn the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, have checks and balances in civil liberties while reduce crime, and have government reform with campaign finance reform to reduce corruption.  U.S. Senator Hart, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is because I find your work as U.S. Senator from Colorado to be very inspiring to me.

When you served in the U.S. Senate from 1975-1987, I liked on how you were a strong supporter of Civil Rights to help protect women, minorities, and people with disabilities from being discriminated in education and public places. Also on Civil Rights, I was very proud on how you supported expanding Civil Rights Act to help continue to help protect minorities including African Americans from being discriminated, advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, expressing your support for the Equal Rights Amendment to help protect women from being discriminated based on gender even though it didn’t pass, supporting funds for women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy.  On women’s issues, I like on how you supported women’s right to choose, expand on healthcare for women to get the care they need, push for programs to help women who are victims of domestic violence or are drug-users get treatment they need or help from law enforcements resources.   Protecting national parks by providing funds to help preserve them with clean them from toxic chemicals, supporting funds for renewable energy projects to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, and pushing for education grants to environmental science to help teach people about the benefits of the environment along with the need to protect it from pollution are great ways to protect the environment.  On bipartisanship, I was amazed on how you worked with moderate-liberal Republican Charles Mathias from Maryland on the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 which is  to protect computer chips from being illegally copy without permission along with protecting from foreign companies to copy it.  During the Church Committee, I very proud on how you worked with Senator Frank Church of Idaho (Chairman of the Church Committee), Republican Senator John Tower (Vice Chairman of Church Committee), and 8 U.S. Senators from both political parties on investigating illegal activities by the CIA, NSA, and FBI and even investigate the Assassination of President JFK with how the agency handled the investigation and many others . Another thing that I was proud on the Church Committee recommended ideas like the need for better protection on civil liberties like the 4^th amendment to protect people from unreasonable searches, 6^th Amendment to have a right to a fair trial with knowing what you are charged with, express the need to protect whistleblowers from being persecuted, and many others.  Your ideas in the 1984 Presidential campaign like the need for campaign finance reform to reduce corruption in elections,  make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination,  withdraw U.S. troops  from Central America to end the endless conflict are great ideas and I was proud on how you expressed those ideas even though you withdrew from the race. After you  left the U.S. Senate, I liked on how you continue to advocate for the need for campaign finance reform to reduce special interest groups including corporations from donating to campaigns in order to make elections fairer,  express the need for ethics reform to reduce corruption, support the need for Civil Rights including people with disabilities’ rights, and many others.  

U.S. Senator Hart, 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.  Your role in the Church Committee and your advocacy for the need for better protection for Civil Liberties motivated me to work on writing an argumentative  essay about how the Patriot Act does more harm than good with how it violates civil liberties and taught me the importance of how civil liberties are important in our democracy.  Also your work as U.S. Senator from Colorado motivates me to be really interested in continue my interest in learning history and public policy.  My future goal is to someday work in public policy to help shape up common sense ideas to make society including laws a better place.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference when you served in the U.S Senate.  I’m also proud on how you worked hard to make great achievements and continue to advocate for great ideas. U.S. Senator Hart, you have truly inspired me  to work hard on my disability, continue my interest in learning history with public policy, and to be motivated to learn the need for better protection on civil liberties.  Here is a picture of me  and a copy of my essay about how the Patriot Act  does more harm than good as a gift to you for inspiring me. I hope you enjoy my letter and my essay. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter including my essay, making great achievements for our country, and inspiring me. I wish you well for the future and to continue to make a great difference.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick