Honorable William Hughes of New Jersey

7/03/2017

Honorable William Hughes

Stockton University

c/o William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy, L-212

101 Vera King Farris Drive

Galloway, NJ  08205

Dear Honorable Hughes,

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 importance of making Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protecting the environment from pollution, and improving relations with other countries to make world a safe place.  Honorable Hughes, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey’s 2^nd District and as U.S. Ambassador o Panama to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as U.S. House of Representative from New Jersey’s 2^nd District from 1975-1995, I was very proud on how you were a strong supporter of making Civil Rights stronger by supporting the Americans With Disabilities’ Act of 1990 to help protect people with disabilities from being discriminated in jobs, public places including education and voting in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to help protect minorities including women form being discriminated in jobs, and pushing for resources to help law enforcement agencies to combat against hate-crime.   On the environment, I liked on how you sponsored legislation to prohibit ocean dumping like sewage sludge including toxic chemicals to protect beaches with protect people including marine life from pollution, supported The Clean Air Act of 1990 to require cleaning burning fuel in industries to reduce air pollution, push for support for research in renewable energy to reduce addiction to oil with gas.  Another thing that I liked about when you served in Congress was how you created South Jersey Economic Development to create job-training programs to help youth including workers to develop job-skills and expand on aviation programs to help improve airplane safety including train people who fly planes.  Also when you served as Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, I liked on how you worked with Democrats including moderate Republicans to pass laws to combat against drug trafficking, money laundering,  and different forms of fraud. In 1995-1998 as U.S. Ambassador to Panama, I really appreciated on how you worked hard to improve relations between the U.S. and Panama by working with Panama to create a task force with United States Command including Panama military to work on combating against drug-smugglings and expand on The Panama Canal treaty to help give Panama some control while allowing the U.S. to help assist them.

Honorable Hughes, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different subjects when they are advanced, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Also your support for the Americans With Disabilities’ Act of 1990 helped benefited me to get an education and to be protected from being discriminated in public places.  In education from elementary school through my community college, the ADA of 1990 helped set up accommodations like extra-time on exams, have a tutor or T.A. help me work on different subjects, have a recorder along with educational software to help improve my comprehension including note-taking skills. In 2014, I was able to receive an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts from Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My main focus in my degree is history, criminal justice, government, some business, and some science.  Your role as Congressman from New Jersey and as U.S. Ambassador to Panama motivates me to continue to learn history with public policy. The main goals that I want to do is someday in the future work in history to emphasize the importance of making Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, and many others.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference in Congress and as U.S. Ambassador. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to make Civil Rights stronger, protect the environment, and improve foreign relations. You have really inspired me to work hard on my disability, your support for the ADA of 1990 helped made a great difference, and to continue to learn history. I was wondering if you could reflect on what it was like serving in Congress and as U.S. Ambassador. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great impact on society, and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Board of Supervisor Jane Kim of San Francisco, California

4/18/2017

Supervisor Jane Kim

c/o City Hall

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244

San Francisco, CA  94102-4689

Dear Supervisor Kim,

My name is Matt Winick, an Asian American from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in studying history and public policy. The main reason I have a strong interest in these areas 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, need to have healthcare reform to help people who can’t afford insurance get the health care they need, and many others.  My main goal for the future is to use what I learn to work on creating ideas to improve society or teach people about the need to make society a better place.  Supervisor Kim, I find your work as Board of Education and currently as San Francisco Board of Supervisor from District 6^th to be very inspiring to me.

 When you served as Board of Education, I liked your commitment to improve education by pushing for more ethnic studies program to help educate students about how diversity including culture play a role in society, help educate people about different ethnic history, and show awareness about women including minorities.  I liked on how you made history by becoming the first Korea-American to become Board of Supervisor in the nation. In current your role as San Francisco Board of Supervisor from District 6^th, I like on how you support expanding on Civil Rights to help protect women, minorities, people with disabilities, and people with different sexual orientation from being discriminated. Also on Civil Rights, I like your commitment to being an advocate to help protect people with disabilities’ rights from being weakened, support funds to help women including minorities businesses compete in the economy, support the need for equal pay for women, and work with minorities communities to find ways to reduce racial profiling.  To help reduce crime, I was very proud on how you pushed for a police substation to be in your district to help reduce crime in your district including having law enforcement play more assistance to help victims of crime get the care they need.  On public education, I liked on how you led the Public Education and Enrichment Fund to be passed and strengthened it to provide funding for school libraries, arts, sports, music and special education to make education diverse, provide educational resources to help engage students to learn, and to help students with disabilities get assistance on getting an education.  Pushing for more medical staff to work in homeless shelters and pushing for more medical supplies to assist homeless including people who can’t afford health insurance get the care they need, supporting treatment programs to help assist people with disabilities or help drug users get care they need, and expressing the need to protect people who are poor from the abuse of rent owner set for living cost is common sense for social justice.  To protect the environment, I liked on how pushed for funding renewable energy like wind, solar, biofuel, and energy efficient products as energy sources to reduce pollution and create bicycle paths to encourage reducing air pollution from vehicles and to improve public safety when bicyclist are riding bikes in the streets.  Another thing that I really like about your work as current role as Board of Supervisor is how you are pushing for funds to help Asian American communities to help repair them, advocate for Asian Americans with disabilities’ rights, and support diversity programs to help address Asian American culture with their awareness.

Supervisor Kim, 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 with communication when I speak with other people, and get teased.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights and support people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Another thing that I struggle with is being an Asian American with a disability when Asians along with Asian Americans including their parents or social groups tease me due to having a disability where they believe that I don’t meet their standards.  When I face these obstacles it makes me sad. Your role on becoming the first Korean American to be Board of Supervisor, helping Asian American communities get the assistance they need, advocating for Asian Americans with disabilities’ rights, and helping show more awareness about Asian including Asian Americans really inspires me to be continue to being motivated to be a proud to be an Asian American when I face struggles with a disability and to even become more interested in Asian American culture including Asian American awareness.  Also your commitment to improve social justice drives me to be interested in learning more history including the need to improve social justice.  

Supervisor Kim, I strongly believe that you made a great difference as Board of Education and currently as San Francisco Board of Supervisor on different issues.  Your work on supporting Civil Rights, advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, and helping show awareness about Asians including Asian Americans really inspires me to work hard on Autism and to be proud of being an Asian American with a strong interest in learning culture with history. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference for society, and inspiring me.   I wish you well to continue to make social justice, Civil Rights, Asian American communities, and many others a better place

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Former U.S. Attorney G. Douglas Jones

6/27/2017

Attorney G. Douglas Jones

c/o Jones & Hawley P.C.

2001 Park Place North, Suite 830

Birmingham, AL  35203

Dear Attorney Jones,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and public policy.  In these subjects, I like to learn the need to make Civil Rights stronger, have criminal justice reform to protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others.  Attorney Jones, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama to be very inspiring to me.

In 1997, I was very proud on how you accepted President Bill Clinton to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.  When you served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997-2001, I was very proud on how you were a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, prosecuted people who committed hate-crimes to help protect minorities including people with disabilities, and expressed the need to end racial profiling in the judicial system including law enforcement agencies to help protect minorities from being oppressed.  Another thing on Civil Rights was on how you worked with other law enforcement agencies including forensic teams to work on prosecuting 2 members of the KKK for their role in the 16^th Street Baptist Church bombing which killed 4 girls. Also on that case that I liked was on how you worked with the victims of the bombing including people who lived during that time period to develop a testimony.   Another thing that I really liked about your role as U.S. Attorney is how you went after public officials who were corrupted on getting illegal bribes, pushed for drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the care they need, and prosecuted industries that committed environmental crimes to help protect the environment.   After you left your role as U.S. Attorney, I’m very proud on how you continue to advocate for the need to make Civil Rights stronger, support people with disabilities’ rights, and express the need to make law enforcement agencies reduce racial profiling.

Attorney Douglas, 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. Another thing that I struggle with a disability is when I face some bigotry or prejudice from other people due to having a disability or being different from other people. Your strong commitment to be a strong supporter of protecting Civil Rights, advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, and prosecuting people who commit hate crime really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  I enjoyed watching your interview on PBS with Travis Smiley because I got to learn more about the history of some of the Civil Rights era, learned about the 16^th Street Baptist Church bombing, and your thoughts on how you handled the case.  Your role as U.S. Attorney motivates me to continue my interest in learning history with public policy and even Civil Rights. My future goal is to work in a history job to help emphasize the need to make Civil Rights stronger, have criminal justice reform to protect civil liberties while reduce crime, and many others.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference when you served as U.S. Attorney. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to protect Civil rights, push for criminal justice reform, and even did an excellent job handling the 16^th Street Baptist Church bombing case.  You have inspired me to work hard on my disability, have an interest in learning about your work, and be motivated to continue to learn history including Civil Rights.  I was wondering if you could please some advice about working hard on a disability and explain your thoughts about when you served as U.S. Attorney.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great difference as U.S. Attorney, and inspiring me.  I wish you well for the future to advocate for criminal justice reform including Civil Rights and I hope you do well in the U.S. Senate 2017 special election.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Attorney Jones sent me a picture of myself giving a speech about running for the special election for 2017 in Alabama. 

His campaign literature 

His campaign literature explaining more about Attorney Jones's issues like supporting protecting the environment from pollution and defend women's access to healthcare. 

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key

6/20/2017

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key

Hamlet (Until Sep 3 2017)

c/o Anspacher Theater/Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street

New York, NY  10003

Dear Mr. Keegan-Michael Key,

My name is Matt Winick and I’m a huge fan of your comedy work. My favorite tv show that you played in are Key & Peele and recently in a movie called Keanu.  In Key & Peele I like on how you and Mr. Jordan Peele do such a great job working together to make sketch comedy great. I enjoyed watching all the episodes from season 1-5.    My favorite episodes of the show are Victory, Gangsta Standoff,  Puppy Dog Ice-T,  LA Vice,  and Obama sketches.  I liked about how you and Mr. Jordan Peele do such a great job on making comedy great on focusing on American popular culture, different stereotypes, race relations, and sometimes parodies on different subjects like movies or different things and thought the concept of explaining the different sketches to the audience members to help them understand the scenario.  In April 2016, I saw Keanu in the movie theaters. I enjoyed the comedy movie about two friends Clarence and Rell who go on a journey and pretend to be gangstas to find Rell’s cat name Keanu after it goes missing.  In Keanu, I was very happy on how you teamed up with Jordan Peele to make the movie great with excellent comedy and make Clarence along with Rell great main characters. 

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble making friends and getting teased. Another thing that I struggle with autism is when people get judgmental about me being different or push me away from social groups.  Your work in comedy including have a sense of humor and your work with Mr. Jordan Peele on friendships with being creative really inspires me to work hard on my disability, understand the need for friendships, and to develop an interest in comedy.  

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key, you have inspired me to be a fan of comedy and to enjoy watching Key & Peele.  I’m very proud on how you work hard to make comedy fun to enjoy with a sense of humor and working with Mr. Peele to make Key & Peele and other comedy teamup fun to enjoy. Also I’m proud to call Keanu one of my favorite movies because it had great comedy and you along with Peele did an excellent job.  I hope there can be a sequel of Keanu or another movie with you and Mr. Peele teaming up again.  Here is a picture of me and $5 as a gift to you to keep for inspiring me to be a fan of comedy and be a fan of your work and to work hard on dealing wit autism.  I was wondering if you could please take the time to answer some of my questions.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making comedy great to watch, doing an excellent job teaming up with Peele to make comedy funny, and inspiring me. I wish you well in comedy and to continue teaming up with Peele to make more comedy great.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

1045 Olivia Avenue

Ann Arbor, MI  48104 

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key took the time to answer my questions including about his favorite moment s in Key and Peele and in Keaunu 

He sent me a personalized message on a picture of him