3rd Auditor General Frank Mautino of Illinois

7/14/2025

Auditor General Frank Mautino

c/o Office of Illinois Auditor General

400 W. Monroe, Suite 306

Springfield, IL  62704

Dear Auditor General Mautino,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and ethics reform. 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,  have ethics reform to reduce corruption. Auditor General Mautino, the main reason why I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 74th district including from the 76th district and currently and 3rd Auditor General of Illinois to be very inspiring to me. 

When you served as Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 74th district (1991-1993) including from the 76th district (1993-2015), I truly appreciated on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for rights of people with disabilities , supporting funds for women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy, and working with other members of the New York State Assembly to expand on laws to combat against hate crimes to help protect minorities including people who are different.  On the economy, I like on how you work to support expansion on jobs training programs to help train youth including workers to develop or improve  on job skills to prepare them for the work force and heavily advocate for the need for an increase in 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  reduce high energy cost while reduce pollution,  and working to expand funds to help clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use is common sense to protect the environment.  On education, I really like on how you support funds for improving special education to help assist students with disabilities get accommodations they need to help assist on learning, advocating for the need to increase funds to improve schools to help teachers including school staff get supplies or make the school environment safe, and heavily support legislation to expand mental health services in schools including colleges to help students including staff members get help on their mental health. On social justice, I like on how you express the need for better improvements of better access to food stamps to help assist people who are low income or who are in need for nutrition, push for investigations into law enforcement who commit police misconduct, and work with different non-profit organizations or groups to find ways to help people who are homeless or who are low income to get different essential items or care they need.  In your current role as 3rd Auditor General of Illinois, , I like on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights including the rights of people with disabilities, environmental protection, and other social justice. On ethics reform, I like on how you pushed for a ban on gifts from lobbyist or lobbying groups to staff members of the Auditor General of Illinois working on court reform to make sure that taxpayers money is being spent like improving the court system to help victims of crime get help on dealing with their trauma, and increasing investigation units to investigate public officials or insurance companies along with financial institutions that are committing different forms of corruption or committing fraud against people. Another thing that I like about your work as Auditor General of Illinois  is how you are a strong advocate for the need for campaign finance reform to help reduce dark money from lobbying groups to political candidates to reduce corruption in elections, continuing to be an advocate for the need for public disclosures of budget including public officials pay raises to help the public know how their taxpayers money is being spent or if it is wasted, and be a continuous strong supporter for the need to improve ethics reform to reduce corruption in government along with businesses.

Auditor General Mautino, 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.  Your role as former Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 74th district including from the 76th district and currently and 3rd Auditor General of Illinois helps give me motivation to continue to learn history, social justice, and ethics reform. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the needs for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, expand on social justice to improve communities, improve ethics reform to reduce corruption, 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 rights of  people with disabilities, expand on ethics reform, advocate along with support common sense ideas, and many others. You truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn more about your work, and continue to learn different subjects. I was wondering if you could please share with me on some of your highlights of your work. 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

 

Dr. Anthony Fauci (5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as 2nd Chief Medical Advisor to the President)

 

5/20/2025

Dr. Anthony Fauci

c/o McCourt School of Public Policy 

Georgetown University

125 E Street NW

Washington, DC  20001

Dear Dr. Fauci,

My name is Matt Winick 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, have universal health care reform to help people with pre-existing conditions or who can’t get health care get help on getting access to health care services, and many others. Dr. Fauci, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as 5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as 2nd Chief Medical Advisor to the President to be very inspiring to me. 

when you served as 5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984-2022, I liked on how you were  a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing the need for health care services not to discriminate agains minorities, women, and people with disabilities. I like on how you work on expanding funds to do research vaccines to help combat against Swine flue or other diseases, advocating for funds for stem cell research to help combat against different diseases like Parkinson’s diseases or Alzheimer’s, helped lobbying Congress including President George H.W. Bush to support The American With Disabilities’ Act of 1990 to help people with disabilities to be protected from being discriminated in education, public places, and health care services.  Another thing that I liked about your work as Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was how you work to expand on educational awareness about how to protect people from cold or flu like symptoms, work on research into combating against AIDS/HIV,  heavily advocate for the need for better health care services to help people with pre-existing conditions or with a disability or who can’t afford insurance get help on health care needs.  When you were in the White House Covid-19 Response Team and as 2nd Chief Medical Advisor to the President form 2021-2022, I liked on how you had the courage to support expansion of production of N95 masks to help provide to people especially the poor  in communities to protect them from the spread of COVID-19,  help President Biden to push for The American Rescue Plan to provide funds to expand on COVID-19 vaccines to communities to help people be protected from the dangers of COVID-19 along with stimulus package to people who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic, and support the need to put a cap on high cost of prescription drugs including insulins to help people who struggle with medical issues be able to get medicine without having to worry about high cost.

Dr. Fauci, I have autism including 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. Another thing that I struggle with a disability is when other people including other adults get judgmental about me being different from them and have struggles to find different methods to improve myself. Also with my disability, I struggle in society including a work place or when I volunteer on trying to do fast pace on different tasks including understanding how to do task efficiently which causes people to get flustered at me. Also with my challenges, I have struggles on maintaining friendships when other people get judgmental about me having a disability or not meeting their expectations. Your advocacy for civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Your role as 5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as White House Covid-19 Response Team and as 2nd Chief Medical Advisor to the President 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 from pollution, expand on social justice to improve communities, have universal health care reform to help people with pre-existing conditions or who can’t get health care get help on getting access to health care services, and many others. I recently saw the documentary Fauci where I liked learning about your early life, how you had to make hard choices during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some of your work as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

I strongly believe that you made a great difference when you served in public service. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to support civil rights including disabilities’ rights, push for improvements in research into medicine or ways to combat against different diseases, advocate for the need for better improvements on health care reform including health care services, and many others. Also I know that COVID-19 pandemic was hard for everyone including you however I like on how you had the courage to make hard choices to try to help save lives during the pandemic along with advocate for vaccines to help reduce risks of COVID-19. You truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, 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 for common sense ideas to help our country during difficult times. 

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Associate Justice Melissa Long of the Rhode Island Supreme Court

7/01/2025

Associate Justice Melissa Long

c/o Rhode Island Supreme Court

Licht Judicial Complex

Providence County Courthouse

250 Benefit Street

Providence, RI  02903

Dear Associate Justice Long,

My name is Marr Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and criminal justice reform. In these subjects, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. Associate Justice Long, the main reason why I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Associate Justice of The Rhode Island Superior Court and as current Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Associate Justice of the The Rhode Island Superior Court from 2017-2021, I truly appreciated on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, pushing for strict sentencing for people who commit hate crimes to help protect minorities including people who are different, and investigating public places that practice different forms of discrimination. Supporting drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, expanding on resources to help victims of crime or victims of domestic violence get the help on dealing with their trauma,  and advocating with pushing for funds to improve DNA testing including forensic science to help solve evidence including cases efficiently while reduce sending an innocent person to jail is common sense for criminal justice reform. Also on criminal justice reform, I liked on how you worked on reforming juvenile justice like pushing for social workers including people who have expertise to help juveniles who come from poor families or have struggles with mental health or a disability to get help and advocate for the need for a mental health court to provide people who struggle with mental health to get into treatment instead of strict sentencing. In January 2021, I was amazed on how you made history on becoming the first African American woman to be on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. In your current role as Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court,  I like on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights and criminal justice reform. Another thing that I like about your work in the Rhode Island Supreme Court is how you support protecting civil liberties like the 4th amendment to help protect people from unreasonable searches including the 6th amendment to know what the person is accused of a crime or know what evidence is against the accused.  Also I like on how you are an advocate of protecting voter’s rights from oppressions, express the need for ethics reform to reduce judicial or police misconduct in order to reduce corruption. 

Associate Justice Long, 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 settings, and get teased. Also with my disability I have face some forms of discrimination in public places including settings due to having a disability. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Your role as former Associate Justice of The Rhode Island Superior Court and as current Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court   helps give me motivation to continue to learn history, social justice, criminal justice reform, and ethics reform.  My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. 

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in the judicial system.  I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights, expand on ethics reform, push along with advocate for criminal justice reform. You truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn more about your work, and continue to learn different subjects.  I would like to meet you and take a tour of the Rhode Island Supreme Court because you truly inspire me and I appreciate your support for rights of people with disabilities including ideas to have criminal justice reform.  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 to help improve the judicial system.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

 

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

 

7/24/2025

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

c/o E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse

333 Constitution Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, DC  20001

Dear U.S. District Judge Sooknanan,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and criminal justice reform. In these subjects, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. U.S. District Judge Sooknanan, the main reason why I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Deputy Associate Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice including as Principal deputy assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice and as current U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to be very inspiring to me.

when you served as Deputy Associate Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice 2021-2023 including as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice 2023-2024, I liked on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for rights of people with disabilities, work to expand on the Civil Rights Division to combat against hate crimes, and investigate any public places that practice different forms of discrimination or violate civil rights legislation. Supported drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, expanded on wrongful convictions unit including DNA testing along with forensic science to help solve evidence efficiently while reduce sending an innocent person to jail, and pushed for investigation into law enforcement officers that engage in police brutality or corruption that negatively effects innocent people are great ways to improve on criminal justice reform. Another thing that I liked about your work in the U.S. Department of Justice is how you were an advocate for the need to stop voter suppression to help protect people from losing their right to vote. In your current role as U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, I like on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights including the rights of people with disabilities and criminal justice reform. Another thing that I like about your work in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is how you are an advocate for the need for the court system to have social workers to help advocate for people with disabilities including people who are poor or don’t have resources get help, support protecting civil liberties from being violated like the 4th amendment to help protect people from unreasonable searches, strongly advocate for protecting worker’s rights like benefits or paid sick or unemployment benefits from being weakened, and many others. 

 U.S. District Judge Sooknanan, I have autism including 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 in different settings, and get teased. Also it is hard when people like to use anti disability stigma as a way to put me down.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including rights of people with disabilities’ really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Your role as former Deputy Associate Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, as Principal deputy assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice, and as current U.S. District
Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia helps give me motivation to continue to learn history, social justice, and criminal justice reform. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, expand on criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. 

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in the judicial system. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights including rights of people with disabilities, advocate while push for criminal justice reform, heavily support protecting civil liberties including voter’s rights from being weakened, and many others. You truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and continue to learn different subjects. I was wondering if you could please share with me on what it is like working in the judicial system. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to make a great difference for society including the judicial system when our country is broken.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

46th Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez of Wisconsin

5/23/2025

Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez

c/o Office of Lieutenant Governor

State Capitol

2 E. Main Street

Madison, WI  53702

Dear Lieutenant Governor Rodriguez,

My name is Matt Winick 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. Lieutenant Governor Rodriguez, the main reason why I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 13th district and as current 46th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 13th district from 2021-2023, I truly appreciated on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, working with other members of the Wisconsin State Assembly to expand on laws to combat against hate crimes to help protect minorities including people who are different, and supporting funds to improve women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy. On the economy,    On the economy, I liked 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 liked 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. In your current role as 46th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin I like on how you work with Governor Tony Evers on being a  continuous strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights, environmental protection, and social justice. Another thing that I like about your work as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin  is how you are working to expand drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, currently advocating for legislation to hold law enforcement officers accountable when they do misconduct or illegal ways that harm citizens,, push for funds to 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, and heavily 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 or other health care services.

Lieutenant Governor Rodriguez, 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. Another thing that I struggle with a disability is when other people including other adults get judgmental about me being different from them and have struggles to find different methods to improve myself. Also with my disability, I struggle in society including a work place or when I volunteer on trying to do fast pace on different tasks including understanding how to do task efficiently which causes people to get flustered at me. Also with my challenges, I have struggles on maintaining friendships when other people get judgmental about me having a disability or not meeting their expectations. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Your role as former Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 13th district and as current 46th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin 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 from pollution, 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 right 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 more about your work, 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 make a great difference and to continue to advocate for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

 

Honorable Molly Gray from Vermont (former Assistant Attorney General of Vermont and 83rd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont )

 

12/23/2024

Honorable Molly Gray

c/o Vermont Afghan Alliance

60 Main Street, Suite 102

Burlington, VT  05401

Dear Honorable Gray,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, environment, social justice, and criminal justice reform.  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, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. Honorable Gray, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Assistant Attorney General of Vermont and when you served as 83rd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Assistant Attorney General of Vermont from 2018-2021,   I truly appreciated on how you are a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, prosecuting people who commit hate-crimes to help protect minorities including people who are different,  and investigate public places that violate Civil Rights legislation. Support drug treatment programs to help drug-users get help on to reduce drug addiction, implement community service programs to help non-violent including non-violent juveniles get help in order to reduce the chance from re-offending, expanding on programs to help victims of crime or victims of domestic violence to get help on dealing with their trauma, and advocating while supporting for the need for funds for DNA testing including forensic science to help reduce sending an innocent person to jail while make solving evidence efficient is common sense for criminal justice reform.   Another thing that I like about your work as Assistant Attorney General of Vermont is how you went after public officials who are corrupt or accepted illegal bribes to reduce corruption and prosecuted industries that polluted the environment to help protect public health while reduce pollution. In your role as 83rd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 2021-2023, I like on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights and advocating for criminal justice reform. Another thing that I liked about your work when you served as Lieutenant Governor of Vermont was how you supported funds to improve special education to help assist students with disabilities to get accommodations they need to help them learn, push for renewable energy resources along with environmental protection to help reduce pollution,  and heavily 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 or other health care services.

Honorable Gray, 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. Another thing that I struggle with a disability is when other people including other adults get judgmental about me being different from them and have struggles to find different methods to improve myself. Also with my disability, I struggle in society including a work place or when I volunteer on trying to do fast pace on different tasks including understanding how to do task efficiently which causes people to get flustered at me. Also with my challenges, I have struggles on maintaining friendships when other people get judgmental about me having a disability or not meeting their expectations. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Your role as former Assistant Attorney General of Vermont and when you served as 83rd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont  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 from pollution, expand on social justice to improve communities, and many others.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference when you served in public service. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to support civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights, protect the environment, expand while advocate for criminal justice reform, and many others. You truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn more about your work, 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