State Representative Trish La Chica from Hawaii 37th district

9/06/2024

State Representative Trish La Chica

c/o Office of State Representative Trish La Chica

Hawaii State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street, Room 310

Honolulu, HI  96813

Dear State Representative La Chica,

My name is Matt Winick, an Asian American from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history including social justice. In these subjects, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, expand on social justice to improve communities, and many others.  State Representative La Chica, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as current Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from the 37th district to be very inspiring to me. 

In your current role as Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from the 37th district, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, advocating with members of the HawaiiHouse of Representatives to expand on laws to combat laws against hate crimes to help protect minorities including people who are different, and supporting funds for women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy.   On the economy, I like on how you support expansion of jobs training programs to help train youth including workers to develop or improve on their job skills to help them prepare for the work force and heavily advocate for the need to raise the minimum wage to help assist minimum wage workers afford to live. Supporting funds for renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction to oil including gas, encouraging businesses including housing to use energy efficient products to help reduce high energy cost while reduce pollution, and working to provide funds to clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use is common sense to protect the environment. On education, I like on how you support funds to improve special education to assist students with disabilities get accommodations they need to learn and working to expand on funds to better improve tutoring services to provide students with help on their assignments from tutors. On social justice, I like on how you are supporting the idea of having social workers on calls with law enforcement to help people who have a mental illness including a disability or to find ways to reduce police brutality and working to provide funds to improve city services including homeless shelters to help people who are low income or who are homeless get essential items. Also on criminal justice reform, I like on how you are currently advocating for legislation to hold law enforcement officers accountable when they do misconduct or illegal ways that harm citizens, support drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, and heavily support funds to help improve wrongful convictions unit to help investigate any misconduct in cases that resulted in innocent people going to jail for a crime that they didn’t commit.  Another thing that I like about your work in the Hawaii House of Representatives  is how you work on expanding funds for improvements on mental health services to help people with disabilities , people with autism spectrum or people who have a mental illness get help or better access to therapy, work to expand on drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, and many others.   

State Representative La Chica, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advanced subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts in different social settings, 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 being an Asian American with a disability is difficult when some Asians including some Asian American tease me or get judgmental about not meeting their standards.   Your role as an Asian American role model on supporting Asian American with disabilities’ rights gives me some confidence about being an Asian American when I face challenges.  Also on Youtube and on the news I enjoy listening to your ideas about improvements on social justice. Your role as current Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from the 37th district  helps give me motivation to continue to learn history including social justice. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment, expand on social justice to improve communities, and many others. 

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference for society. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights, protect the environment, expand on social justice, and many others. You truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, be confident about being an Asian American with a disability, and continue to learn different subjects. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate and push for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick