Justice Barbara A. Madsen of Washington State Supreme Court

6/13/2017

Justice Barbara A. Madsen
c/o Washington State Supreme Court
PO Box  40929
Olympia, WA  98504-0929 

Dear Justice Madsen,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history, social justice including public policy.  In these subjects, I like to learn the need to advance on Civil Rights to help protect people who are different, have criminal justice reform to help protect victims from crime, and many others. Chief Justice Madsen, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work in the judicial system and when you served as Chief Justice of Washington State Supreme Court to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Special Prosecutor in Seattle City Attorney’s Office, I liked on how you established City of Seattle Family Violence Project to help combat against child abuses, provide treatment programs to help children who are traumatized by the abuses, and expand services to find ways to help children have a safe home.  In your role as judge in Seattle Municipal Court, I was amazed on how you created Domestic Violence Coordinating Committee to find ways to make services including treatment programs to help assist victims of domestic violence, push for tough laws on people who commit domestic violence,  and have educational awareness about the need to combat against domestic violence.  When you served as Chief Justice of Washington State Supreme Court, I am very proud on how you use your judicial role to support advancing with protecting Civil Rights to help protect women, minorities, and people with disabilities from being discriminated in education, public places, and many others.  Also on Civil Rights, I like on how you advocate for people with disabilities’ rights, express the need to protect women’s rights from being weakened, and support the idea of reducing racial profiling to help protect minorities from being discriminated by the judicial system.  Also on the Washington State Supreme Court, I liked on how you established the Access to Justice Board, Minority and Justice Commission, Gender and Justice Commission,  and Commission on Children in Foster Care to find ways to improve the judicial system on helping educate people about how the judicial system works,  push for reform to combat against discrimination for minorities including women in the judicial system, have criminal justice reform like drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the care they needs so they won’t get addicted including push for DNA testing for cases to reduce setting an innocent person to jail,  won’t and many others.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights, be an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights, support women’s rights, and push for criminal justice reform to make the judicial system work for the people is common sense.

Justice Madsen, 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 sometimes people use bigotry or prejudice on me based on a disability.  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 work in the judicial system got me really interested in having an interest in learning about the criminal justice system, In Winter 2014, I took a class Intro To Criminal Justice at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI.  In Intro to Criminal Justice, I enjoyed learning about how the court system works, the procedures of law enforcement, different U.S. Supreme Court cases, different criminal justice terms, and the need for criminal justice reform.  Also your role in the judicial system and your current role as Chief Justice of Washington Supreme Court 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 of history a better tool for people to learn.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in the judicial system including your as Justice of Washington State Supreme Court. Justice Madsen, I’m very proud on how you work really hard to reform the judicial system and to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including people with disabilities. You have inspired me to continue to work hard on my disability, take a criminal justice class, be motivated to continue my interest in learning history including public policy. I agree with you on the need to reform the judicial system to make it work for the people and society.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, pushing for common sense ideas in the judicial system, and inspiring me. I wish you well to continue to make a great difference.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Mayor Carolyn Goodman of Las Vegas, Nevada

6/13/2017

Mayor Carolyn Goodman

c/o Office of the Mayor

Las Vegas City Hall

495 S Main Street

Las Vegas, NV  89101

Dear Mayor Goodman,

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 for Civil Rights to help combat against discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, improve public safety, and many others.  Mayor Goodman, the main reason, I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, I like on how you are a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting funds to help women including minorities businesses compete in the economy, and expressing the need for women to have equal pay. Providing tax credits for small businesses including local businesses to help them be part of the community, expanding on job-training programs to help train youth including workers to help prepare them for the economy, and working while encouraging businesses to hire women, minorities, and people with disabilities are great ways to improve the economy.   Your approach on finding ways to improve education like fund special education to help students with disabilities get help on learning, provide after school programs to help students get help on their assignments or allow them to participate in recreation programs,  and support the need for more arts including diversity programs to help teach people about the need for diversity is common sense.  On the environment, I like on how you are continuing to work on improving protecting the environment by supporting funds to create renewable energy projects to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, providing businesses including housing with energy-efficient products to reduce high energy cost while reduce pollution, and implementing funds to help clean water resources including parks to help make them safe for people to use.  Another thing that I like about your work as Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada is how you provides funds to help preserve with fix historical sites including different attractions to improve tourism while make learning including diversity a better place, push for more bike paths including ix sidewalks to make them safe for pedestrians to use, and continuous working on finding ways to reduce homeless rates by expand homeless shelters.

Mayor Goodman, 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 including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also your work on preserving historical sites including attractions motivates me to continue to have a strong interest in learning history.  your role as Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada drives me to continue my interest in learning history with public policy. My future goals are to continue to learn more about how different U.S. Mayors’ agendas and visit historical sites including museums to help expand my knowledge.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in your current role as Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada.  I’m very proud on how you are working hard to make a great difference for society. I was wondering if you could please share with me what Las Vegas is like and highlight your achievements as mayor.   You have inspired me to work hard on my disability and to continue my strong interest in learning history with public policy.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a difference, and inspiring me.  I wish you well in your current role as mayor to make great progress.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Honorable David Dinkins from New York City, New York

6/22/2017

Honorable David Dinkins

c/o Columbia University

International Affairs Building, Room 1430

420 West 118^th Street

New York, NY  10027

Dear Honorable Dinkins,

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 make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protecting the environment, and many others.  Honorable Dinkins, The main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 106^th Mayor of New York City to be very inspiring to me.

In January 1990, I was amazed on how you made history by becoming first African American to become Mayor of New York City.  When you served as 106^th Mayor of New York City 1990-1993, I was very proud on how you were a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, push for funds to help women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy, support women’s rights to protect them from being discriminated in jobs, and express the need to reduce racial profiling in order to protect minorities from being targeted without probable cause.  To reduce crime, I liked on how you launched Safe Streets with Safe Cities to help hire police officers to patrol the streets, pushed for drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the care they need, and give funds to law enforcement resources including forensic science to help review evidence or solve crime efficiently.  Expanding job-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop job-skills to help prepare them for the economy is a great way to improve the economy.  To protect environment, I liked on how you worked with city sanitation workers to continue to clean up garbages around New York City and pushed for funds to help clean up parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use.   To improve education, I was very proud on how you expanded funds to help improve special education to help students with disabilities get the educational resources they need and provide schools with after school programs to help them get help on their assignments from tutors. Also another thing that I liked about when you served as mayor was on how you pushed to clean up including re-fix Times Square to improve tourism while make it a safe place for people to interact and push for homeless programs to help assist people who are homeless get shelter along with different care they need.

Honorable Dinkins, 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 including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  I enjoyed watching on Youtube  “A Mayor’s Life-Conversation With Former NYC Mayor Dave Dinkins” because I enjoyed learning about what it was like being mayor of New York City and your thoughts of the politics in New York City.  Your work as 106^th Mayor of New York City motivates me to continue my strong interest in learning history including public policy.   My future goal is to continue to learn history, understand the importance of the need to make Civil Rights stronger, and many others.  Also my letter is a gift to you for inspiring me and to wish you a Happy Birthday for July 10^th.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference when you served as Mayor of New York City.  I’m very proud on how you worked hard to make a great difference on different issues ranging from Civil Rights through public safety and made history by becoming the first African American to become mayor of that city.  You have inspired me to work hard on my disability, have an interest in learning about your work as mayor, and to be motivated to learn history including public policy.  I was wondering if you could please share some advice about working hard on a disability and share your thoughts on being mayor.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great difference, and inspiring me.    I wish you well for the future to advocate for common sense ideas and also I wish you a Happy Birthday for July 10.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Ms. Anika Noni Rose Disney Princess and The Frog

2/01/2017

Ms. Anika Noni Rose

c/o David Williams Management,  Llc.

Suite F

9614 Olympic Blvd.

Beverly Hills, CA  90212

Dear Ms. Rose,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in watching Disney movies.  The main reason I like watching Disney movies is because I like learning how different main Disney characters have interesting traits like working hard to overcome different obstacles, Disney movies have good symbolism like friendships or other themes, how it has diversity, and many others.  Ms. Rose, I’m writing you a letter to explain how I enjoyed watching Disney Princess and The Frog, and how you inspire me.

In Princess and The Frog, I really liked a story about Tiana, who works as a waitress where she has a dream about owning her own restaurant and later meets  Prince Naveen who has been cut off from his parents where he is transformed into a frog by Dr. Facilier and  when Tiana kisses the frog who is Naveen she turns into a frog which results in both of them going on a journey to find a way to  turn back to humans where they need different creatures to help them on their quest.  In the movie I really liked on how the story took place during the Jazz era in New Orleans and I really like the songs in the movie because it did an excellent job balancing the lyrics with Jazz.  My favorite songs were Down In New Orleans, Almost There,  When We’re Humans, and Dig a Little Deeper.  Ms. Rose, I thought you did an excellent job voicing along with making Tiana have a great traits like working hard to overcome her struggles, willing to workout her differences with Naveen when they are both cursed in to frogs in order to achieve their goal , having friendships in with other people or creatures to help her.  Also I really liked on how you did an excellent job singing Almost There and many other songs because I liked on how you made the lyrics have a story along with some sense of humor.  I believe that Princess and The Frog had great symbolism like on how people from different economic class like poor and rich can have a friendship or be in a relationship, when there are obstacles or conflicts there is a need to work together in order to achieve a good goal, the importance for friendships,  and that love isn’t about money. 

Ms. Rose, 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 role as Tiana in Disney Princess and The Frog and her great traits inspires me to work hard on my disability and to understand the need for friendships when times are hard.  Also Princess and the Frog motivated me to be interested in listening to more Jazz and playing Jazz/ Ragtime on the Bb Clarinet.  You, your role as Princess Tiana, and Princess and The Frog gave me motivation to visit Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida around January 2016.  In Magic Kingdom, I had an excellent time  riding some of the slow rides, interacting with Disney characters including Princess Tiana,  and exploring different part of Magic Kingdom.

I strongly believe that you did an excellent job making Disney Princess and The Frog a great movie.  You also did a great job portraying Tiana and making her have great traits. Ms. Rose, you have inspired me to work hard on my disability,  be interested in Jazz, and to visit Magic Kingdom.  I was wondering if you could please take the time to answer some questions.  Here is a picture of me with Princess Tiana at Magic Kingdom as a gift to you for inspiring me.  Thanks for taking the time to  read my letter, doing an excellent job making Disney Princess and The Frog a great movie, and inspiring me.  I wish you well to continue to act and do more singing.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Q+A sheet that I sent to Ms. Anika Noni Rose

This is the picture of me with Princess Tiana at Walt Disney World that I sent to her as a gift