1/02/2018
Governor Eliot Spitzer
c/o Spitzer Enterprises
730 5th Avenue, Suite 2202
New York, NY 10019
Dear Governor Spitzer,
My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor,
Michigan with a strong interest in learning history and social justice. In
these subjects I like to learn the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce
discrimination, have immigration reform to help protect immigrants including
refugees from oppression, protect the
environment from pollution, and many others. Governor Spitzer, the main reason
I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 63rd
Attorney General of NY and as 54th Governor of New York to be very
inspiring to me.
When you served as 63rd
Attorney General of New York from 1999-2006, I was very proud on how you worked
to prosecute Wall Street including financial institutions when they committed
fraud or abuse on taxpayer’s money or stole money from people who uses
stocks. Another thing that I liked about
your work was how you pushed for a commission to study the NYPD stop-and-frisk
policies to find ways to help protect people’s civil liberties while reduce
crime. Also in your role as Attorney General of New York I like on how you
advocated for the need for regulations on Wall Street including financial institutions
to help reduce fraudulent practices. In your role as 54th Governor
of New York from 2007-2008, I truly appreciate on how you were a strong supporter of Civil
Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting funds to
help women including minorities businesses to help compete in the economy,
expanding laws to combat against hate crime to help protect minorities
including people who are different and expressing the need for equal pat for
women. On the economy, I liked on how you worked to push
for job-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop
work-skills and advocate for the need to raise the minimum wage to help minimum
wage workers afford to live. Supporting
renewable energy projects to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, pushing to
provide funds to help clean parks including water resources to make them safe
for people to use is common sense to protect the environment. I was amazed on how you had the courage to try
to express the need for driver licenses for illegal immigrants to help them get
access to transportation when both political parties didn’t support it, continue
to advocate for the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants
including refugees from being oppressed along with provide them with help from
government, and support the ideas of campaign finance reform to reduce money
from corporations including financial institutions from corrupting campaigns
along with elections.
Governor Spitzer, I have autism with a
learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble
comprehending on learning different advance 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 saw Inside Job, a documentary movie about the
corruption in the U.S. caused by financial institutions, how the lobbying groups
affected policy decisions to deregulate the banking practices to cause the
financial crisis while committing fraud against people along with taxpayer’s
money, and I enjoyed seeing you featured in the documentary where you explained
your role as Attorney General of New York where to prosecuted financial
institutions that committed fraud against the people while express the need to
strengthen consumer’s rights because you did a great job emphasizing the need to
have regulations to prevent a financial crisis from happening again. Also your role as Attorney General of New York
and as Governor of New York gives me motivation to continue to learn history and social
justice. My future goal is to someday
work in these areas to help make society a better place and to emphasize the
need to make Civil Rights stronger, have consumer protection, protect the
environment, and have immigration reform.
I strongly believe that you made a
great difference when you served as Attorney General of New York and as
Governor of New York. I’m very proud on how you had the courage to support
Civil Rights, regulate wall street, protect the environment, advocate for
immigration reform, and many others when both political parties aren’t
advocates. You have inspired me to work hard on my disability, continue to
learn different subjects, and watch Inside Job to learn the need to regulate
Wall Street from committing fraud or abuse on people. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter,
working hard to push for good ideas, and inspiring me. I wish you the best for
the future to advocate for common sense ideas and that someday I would like to
get a chance to meet you because your principles and your work has inspired me
in many ways.
P.S. here is a picture of me on the
Brooklyn Bridge when I visited NYC in 2017
Sincerely,
Matt Winick
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