Mayor Tom Tait of Anaheim, California

2/12/2018

Mayor Tom Tait

c/o Office of the Mayor

City Hall

200 S Anaheim Boulevard

Anaheim, CA  92805

Dear Mayor Tait,

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, protect the environment from pollution, and many others. Mayor Tait, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as Mayor of Anaheim California to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as Mayor of Anaheim, California, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, working with city council to have strict laws to combat against hate-crime to help protect minorities including people who are different, and expressing the need to reduce racial profiling to help protect minorities including immigrants from being oppressed. I like your commitment to improve education by funding special education to help students with disabilities get the care they need, pushing for more after school programs to help youth get help on assignments from tutors, and support the need to funds the arts including diversity programs to make education diverse.  Supporting renewable energy projects to reduce addiction to oil with gas, encouraging businesses including industries to use energy efficient products to help reduce high energy costs while protect the environment,  working to improve city services to clean up parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use is a common sense way to combat against climate change while reduce pollution.  On the economy, I like your approach on how you are expanding on job training programs to help train youth including workers to develop work-skills and provide small businesses including local businesses with tax-credit to help them hire people to work for them.  Your approach on criminal justice reform like express the need to reduce racial profiling to help protect minorities including immigrants from being oppressed, create more community policing to help improve relations between law enforcement and communities, push for drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the care they need to reduce drug addiction, and expand programs to help victims of crime or victims of domestic violence get help from law enforcement resources is common sense.  Another thing that I liked about your work as Mayor of Anaheim, California is how you are an advocate for immigration reform to help immigrants including refugees along with DACA be protected from being oppressed, create Hi Neighbor program to bring neighbors including community members together to find ways to improve neighborhoods, implement Coming Home Anaheim where local communities team up with religious groups to help give homeless people shelter,  and work on an initiative called city of Kindness to help find ways to make a city friendly to people who come from different backgrounds along with push for educational awareness to address the need to reduce bullying.   Also I really like on how you are a moderate Republican who is working with other U.S. Mayors from different political affiliation in the U.S. Conference of Mayors on advancing Civil Rights,  protecting the environment, reduce homeless rate while push for affordable housing,  express the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees. 

Mayor Tait, 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.   Also your role and participation in the U.S. Conference of Mayors really helps me to continue to be interested in learning about the U.S. Conference of Mayors role in society and develop more interest in learning about how different U.S. Mayors have good common sense ideas when both political parties aren’t advocates for good ideas.  Your role as current Mayor of Anaheim, California gives me motivation to continue to learn history and social justice. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, improve social justice to make communities safe, and the need for immigration reform to protect immigrants along with refugees.

I strongly believe that  you are making a great difference or society. I’m very proud on how you as a moderate Republican mayor is working hard to support Civil Rights, protect the environment, advocate for social justice with immigration reform, and working with other U.S. Mayors to find solutions. You have truly inspired me to work hard on my disability, learn more about your work, be motivated to learn more about U.S. Conference of Mayors including other U.S. Mayors, and continue to learn history with social justice.  My letter is a gift to you for inspiring me and before you leave office.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. I wish you the best to continue to push for common sense ideas before your term ends.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

got some gifts and some City of Kindess Tokens